Luckey began his military career leading Soldiers in both mechanized and Special Forces units until separating from active duty in 1982 to attend law school.

Recalled to active duty in 2008 to serve as the Chief, Office of Security Cooperation in Baghdad, Iraq, Luckey took a military leave of absence from his Law Firm in North Carolina to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom where he led a team of Americans to provide capabilities to the senior leadership of Iraq.

Luckey, a former Army Judge Advocate, is an experienced trial lawyer who has tried a wide variety of both criminal and civil cases in a number of venues and jurisdictions.

He writes and posts regularly on matters regarding his profound concern with America's challenges to include: our current political dysfunction, our eroding confidence in our ability to govern ourselves or to embrace the common good, and our weakening of commitment to the rule of law.

He has often characterized our time as "The Age of Epistemic Warfare" and regularly publishes a column in The Pilot, a independently owned and operated newspaper in Moore County, North Carolina.