Chet Nagle is a Naval Academy graduate, a Georgetown Law School graduate, and a Cold War carrier pilot who flew in the Cuban Missile Crisis. As an agent for the CIA, he worked in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and strange places like Bashkortostan. He was the founding publisher of the Journal of Defense & Diplomacy, a geopolitical magazine with readers in more than 20 countries. Returning to Washington, he became a global business consultant through his company Intel Research Corporation. He has appeared often on radio and television, is the author of Iran Covenant, and is now C.E.O of Ravenna Associates, a strategic communications company. He is a contributor and senior advisor to AND Magazine.