A former special operations pilot and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. Nolan graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2004 with a B.S. in political science and received a M.A. in french politics from Middlebury College in 2006 following two years of graduate study at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. He has visited over 50 countries and been on adventures from the Himalayas to Antarctica. Nolan is a freelance foreign affairs journalist, relating the incredible experiences from travels and military experiences around the world to an audience back home in the United States.