Đôi chút về tác giả P. Brookes
Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs and Director, Asian Studies Center
Areas of expertise: Homeland Security, National Security, Asia and the Pacific
As a Senior Fellow, Peter Brookes’ primary responsibility is to communicate Heritage’s stance on foreign policy and national security affairs through media appearances, interviews, ongoing research and speaking engagements. He also serves as Director of Heritage’s Asian Studies Center.
In addition, he is a regular weekly columnist on foreign policy and defense issues for one of the nation's top ten newspapers, the New York Post. Brookes also writes regularly for the Boston Herald, Japan's Daily Yomiuri and Taiwan's China Post. He frequently appears on national and international TV and radio on national security issues.
Before coming to Heritage, Brookes served in the Bush administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Office of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, where he was responsible for the development, planning, guidance and oversight of U .S. security and defense policy for 38 countries and 5 bilateral defense alliances in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to joining the Bush administration, Brookes worked as a Professional Staff Member with the Republican staff of the Committee on International Relations in the U.S. House of Representatives focusing on East and South Asian affairs. Brookes also served as an Intelligence Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations, focusing on global political affairs, arms control, and weapons proliferation. Just prior to his CIA service, he worked on international economic issues for the State Department at the United Nations.
Brookes has also worked in the private sector for Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC), E-systems and TASC on engineering, defense and intelligence projects. While with SAIC he was detailed to the Non-Proliferation Center (NPC) at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he worked on issues related to arms control, treaties, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
He has a distinguished military background, including active duty in support of military operations in Iraq/Kuwait (Desert Storm); Haiti (Restore Democracy); and Bosnia (Joint Endeavor). He flew reconnaissance missions in East Asia and the Persian Gulf while stationed in Japan covering military matters related to the Soviet Union, North Korea, China, Vietnam, Iran and Iraq. Brookes has more than 1300 flight hours in Navy EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft. While serving in Panama, he worked Latin American and Caribbean counter-narcotics and issues related to insurgencies/counter-insurgencies in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
As a Commander in the Naval Reserves, Brookes is assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency where he serves as an Associated Professor in the Masters-level Postgraduate Intelligence Program at the Joint Military Intelligence College. He has also performed reserve assignments as a staff officer, defense attaché, intelligence analyst and collector, and interpreter/translator with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, unified and specified commands, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Office of Naval Intelligence, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Vice President and in support of the National Security Council.
Brookes is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (B.S. Engineering); the Defense Language Institute (Diploma Russian); the Naval War College (Diploma National Security and Strategic Studies); Georgetown University (Certificate Business Administration) and the Johns Hopkins University (M.A. American Government). He was a Cox Fellow to West Germany and is highly proficient in the Russian language.
He is a frequent public speaker; the author of opinion pieces, journal articles, and book reviews and book chapters on foreign policy, national security, and intelligence topics; appears on American and foreign radio and television; and has testified before the U.S. Congress. Brookes was a principal drafter of the 2000 GOP foreign policy platform at the Republican convention in Philadelphia and subsequently supported the Bush Department of Defense Transition Team.
His personal awards and decorations include: the Joint Service Commendation Medal; the Navy Commendation Medal (3 awards); the Navy Achievement Medal; several naval and joint unit awards; the Defense Language Institute’s Kellogg Award; the Joint Chiefs of Staff service badge; and Naval Aviation Observer (NAO) wings.