Brian Morra is a highly decorated former American intelligence officer and a retired aerospace executive. He is a former Air Force Intelligence officer and was one of the planners of the Desert Storm air campaign. Currently, he is senior advisor to the Bain Company, a senior non-resident fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and Regent at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.

He is the author of the award-winning Able Archers series of historical thrillers. He has written numerous articles for national publications and is an on-air expert in the new Netflix series on the Cold War called Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War. He also contributed his extensive expertise to the newly released CNN/BBC documentary called Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game.

He earned degrees from William and Mary, the University of Oklahoma, and Georgetown University. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area and in Florida.

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