Brig Gen Terri
Borras, USAR (Ret)

Terri Borras is a now retired senior U.S. Army intelligence leader with four decades of experience spanning operational deployments, special operations support, and enterprise intelligence leadership. She commanded at every level, culminating as Commanding General of the Military Intelligence Readiness Command, and Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa. Most recently, she served on the Army Staff as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of the Army G-2. Borras brings a practitioner lens that turns real cases into clear decision frameworks, with focus areas that include intelligence in modern conflict, information operations and influence, cyber-enabled threats, and trust and decision-making in contested information environments. She writes extensively on LinkedIn on cognitive and information conflict, decision systems, and authenticity risk. Her fictional intelligence short story, Echoes of Dust and Steel, won the U.S. Army Transformation and Training Command’s Mad Scientist competition, and she co-wrote “The Trust Gap in a Synthetic World.” Borras holds an M.S. in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, an M.Ed. from Strayer University, and a B.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University. She completed a National Security Management fellowship at Syracuse University, executive education in Artificial Intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and additional executive education in strategy at the National Defense University and UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.