[3] Markus Reisner joined the Austrian Armed Forces in 1997 as a one-year volunteer[4] and subsequently completed a preparatory semester for the Military Academy in Allentsteig.
[1] From 2010 to 2013, he completed doctoral studies in history at the University of Vienna (dissertation on the aerial warfare over Austria from 1943 to 1945, supervisor Lothar Höbelt).
[5] In June 2020, he was appointed head of the Development Department of the Theresian Military Academy, and led it with the rank of Colonel of the General Staff.
[3] Markus Reisner currently is a member of the Military History Advisory Board of the Scientific Commission at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defense (since 2017),[7] and holds a position as lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt (since 2011).
He has gained public recognition as head of the Development Department of the Theresian Military Academy, where he delivered battlefield analyses in the form of YouTube videos on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.