[4][5] Brachman graduated from Augustana College (BA, 2000) and University of Delaware (MA, 2002; PhD, 2006).
[6] He is a former graduate fellow at the Central Intelligence Agency (2003), and the former director of research at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center (2004–08).
It is used to denote a person who is not an active member of a violent jihadi organization such as Al-Qaeda or the Somali Al Shabaab, but who has a fascination with and enthusiasm for jihad and Islamic extremism.
[9][10] Brachman, now managing director of Cronus Global LLC and a civilian scholar on the faculty of North Dakota State University, regularly briefs government officials on terrorism issues.
[11][12] In 2013, Brachman joined Wells Fargo's Emergency Incident Management Team.