Susan Bryant is a retired Army Colonel who served 28 years on active duty, including tours in Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula. She holds a doctorate of Liberal Studies from Georgetown University, where she currently teaches Grand Strategy and Military Operations, as well as American Military History. She is also a Visiting Fellow at National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategy Studies and a Visiting Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She lives with her family in Leesburg, VA.