Lieutenant Colonel Michael Brady, US Army, retired, earned his MS in strategic intelligence from the National Intelligence University in Washington, DC, in 2003. He is a 1990 graduate of the Citadel, the Marine Corps Command and General Staff College, the Joint Forces Staff College, the US Army Airborne School, and the US Army Ranger School and served as the director of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center in the White House from January 2001 to July 2002 under President George W. Bush. His areas of expertise and research include threats to the homeland, intelligence collection systems and programs, intelligence analysis, and intelligence support to national policy making. He is also the US contributor to the Sunday Morning Spy Show, an international podcast based in the United Kingdom and a weekly contributor to the Asia Times where he writes on security issues in the region. Michael currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at the Citadel. He spends most of his free time in Jacksonville, Florida, with his girlfriend, Laura, and is the proud father of three children: Sarah, Shane, and Sean. |
