[31] Mulroy is a godfather to four Gold Star Daughters, whose fathers, paramilitary officers, were killed in action and are honored on the CIA Memorial Wall and buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

[35] At a workshop at RAND Corporation in October 2019, Mulroy officially rolled out the IWA, saying it was a critical component of the 2018 NDS.

He continued that IW had been perceived as limited to the CT effort used to fight violent extremist organizations but should be applied to all competition areas, including the great powers of China and Russia and the rogue states of North Korea and Iran.

The group aims to analyze emerging trends in counterterrorism and suggest ways to enhance current practices.

[38] Mulroy is a co-maker along with U.S. Navy SEAL Eric Oehlerich, of the documentary film, My Star in the Sky, which in the Acholi dialect of Uganda and South Sudan is “Lakalatwe.” The film portrays the relationship between two former child soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony, who rebelled against the government of Uganda for decades.

Foreign Policy reports that the documentary came about after Mulroy and Oehlerich met a family of former child soldiers during Operation Observant Compass (OOC).

[16] This documentary has been screened at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs,[39] the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank for international affairs,[40] the Enough Project, a non-profit group to end crimes against humanity,[41] Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy,[42] and the Truman National Security Project.

Mulroy was one of the leaders in a group called Fogbow that developed a maritime corridor to deliver Humanitarian aid into Gaza in March 2024.

In an essay in modern Stoicism entitled, “A Case for the Philosopher King,” Mulroy advocated for a return of teaching virtue ethics in school and modeling examples of those that should be emulated like Marcus Aurelius, James Stockdale, John Lewis, among others.

[55] In an interview with The Daily Stoic website, Mulroy discussed the importance of philosophy, the simplicity of Stoicism, and the challenges of practicing it.