Moorcraft married Susan van den Brink in 1987 on an island situated in Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba.
He is a former senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (1973–1975), and has also taught at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College (1997–2000).
Over the past three decades, he has worked in thirty war zones in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Balkans, often with irregular forces.
Moorcraft is also a crisis management consultant to such international blue-chip companies as Shell Oil, British Gas, 3M Corporation, Standard Bank etc., as well as for various government organisations.
[4] Moorcraft is a media commentator and appears regularly on BBC TV and radio, as well as organizations such as Sky and Al Jazeera.
He is also an op-ed/columnist for major international newspapers including The Guardian, Washington Times, Business Day, New Statesman and Western Mail.
Moorcraft also supported the war against Saddam Hussein in 2003, but later recanted his views in the light of the failure to find weapons of mass destruction.