Edward Corcoran

Edward Corcoran is a retired US army officer who serves as a Senior fellow on national security issues at GlobalSecurity.org. Ed ended his military career as a Strategic Analyst at the US Army War College where he chaired studies for the Office of the Deputy Chief of Operations. Prior to that, as a Soviet affairs specialist, he served on intelligence staffs, spent two years as a Liaison Office to the Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces, Germany, and earned his Ph.D. in International Relations at Columbia University. In his primary military specialty as a Nuclear Weapons Officer, he also served on overseas assignments with depot units. After his military career, Dr. Corcoran served as a core member of the Secretary’s Safeguards and Security Task Force evaluating security throughout the Department of Energy complex. He also served as the Rappoteur of the Defense of Europe Working Group of the Common Security Programme based in Oxford, England, and had extensive discussions with European specialists on NATO defense issues. Then he ran an energy efficiency company in Budapest, Hungary, for ten years. Most recently he has been working with the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce to promote emergence of a more stable Afghanistan and developing assessments of Russia and the war in Ukraine.