Lieutenant Colonel Michael Brady, US Army, retired, is a graduate of the Citadel, Marine the Corps Command and General Staff College, the Joint Forces Staff College, the US Army Airborne and Ranger Schools and earned his MS in strategic intelligence from the National Intelligence University in 2003 after serving as the director of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center in the White House. Brady currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at the Citadel.