Edward A. Corcoran is a retired US Army officer who spent years in the Army Soviet Affairs program, serving on intelligence staffs and as a Liaison Officer to the Commander-in- Chief, Group of Soviet Forces, Germany. During this time, he received his doctorate in International Affairs from Columbia University. In his primary military specialty as a Nuclear Weapons Officer he served on overseas assignments with depot units and had two tours in South Korea and one in Vietnam. Ed ended his military career as a Strategic Analyst at the US Army War College, chairing studies for the Office of the Deputy Chief of Operations. After his military career, Ed was a Rappoteur of the Defence of Europe Working Group based in Oxford, England, and then ran an energy-efficiency company in Budapest, Hungary. More recently he has been involved with support for Afghanistan and assessments of Russia.