Brian Todd Carey earned Bachelor of Arts in History (with Religious Studies Interdisciplinary Certification) from Colorado State University in 1992, a Master of Arts in History from Colorado State University (with Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Certification) in 1994, and a Master of Arts in Military Studies from the American Military University in 1998.

He has been a full-time Assistant Professor of History and Military Studies at the American Public University System since 2002, and an instructor here since 1997. He is also a part-time instructor of western civilization and world civilizations at Front Range Community College. He has served as vice-president of the Rocky Mountain Regional World History Association and faculty advisor to the Asian Studies Program Board at Colorado State University. He has also served as a member of a six-professor scientific committee who oversaw the veracity of articles submitted for publication for two French-language bi-monthly military history and science periodicals. HISTOIRE MONDIALE DES CONFLITS highlighted different battles, campaigns and martial technologies throughout the history of warfare, while HISTOIRE MONDIALE DES CONFLITS-THEMATIQUE concentrated on one military subject per issue.

Professor Carey was the recipient of American Public University System’s 2007 Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award for the School of Arts and Humanities.

He is the author of over thirty articles on heroic agenda military history and the theory and practice of airpower. In 2005 and 2006, he published a two-volume military history survey entitled WARFARE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD and WARFARE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD (Pen and Sword Books, available now on Amazon.com) covering the evolution of warfare in western civilization from the rise of Sumer through the Thirty Years' War. His most recent book describes the campaigns of Hannibal Barca and the Second Punic War entitled HANNIBAL'S LAST BATTLE - ZAMA AND THE FALL OF CARTHAGE (Pen and Sword Books, 2007). He is also contributing seventeen articles on ancient, classical and medieval Eurasian military history for the 21-volume ABC-CLIO WORLD HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA (forthcoming, 2009).

Since 1999 Professor Carey has taken over 250 students and community participants in Colorado to Turkey and Greece (1999), Scotland, England, and Wales (2000), Italy (2001), Greece and Turkey (2003), Germany (2004), Spain and Morocco (2005), France and Spain (2006) India (2007), Egypt (2007), and Italy and Greece (2008).