Bradley Bowman serves as senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he focuses on US defense strategy and policy. He has served as a national security advisor to members of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, as well as an active duty US Army officer, Black Hawk pilot, and assistant professor at West Point. Bowman spent nearly nine years in the US Senate, including six years as the top defense advisor to Senator Kelly Ayotte, then-senior Republican on the Armed Services Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee. Bowman also served as national security advisor to Senator Todd Young and worked as a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Bradley served more than 15 years on active duty as a US Army officer, including time as a company commander, pilot, congressional affairs officer on the Army staff in the Pentagon, and staff officer in Afghanistan. As an assistant professor at the US Military Academy at West Point, Bowman taught courses on American politics, foreign policy, and grand strategy. He also taught a graduate course on “Congress and US National Security Policy” at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Bowman has testified to Congress and appeared on CNN and BBC. His analysis has been published by The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, NBC News, Newsweek, Breaking Defense, Defense News, and others. He earned an MA in international relations from Yale University and a BS in American politics from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
