Bradley Bowman

Bradley Bowman serves as senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). A recognized expert on U.S. foreign and defense policy and strategy, 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 U.S. Army officer, Black Hawk pilot, and assistant professor at West Point.

CMPP promotes understanding of the defense strategies, policies, and capabilities necessary to deter and defeat threats to the freedom, security, and prosperity of Americans and our allies.

Bradley spent nearly nine years in the U.S. Senate, including six years as the top defense advisor to Senator Kelly Ayotte, then-senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee. He 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 U.S. Army officer, including time as a company commander, Black Hawk pilot-in-command, congressional affairs officer on the Army staff in the Pentagon, and staff officer in Afghanistan. As an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Bradley taught courses on American politics, foreign policy, and grand strategy. He also taught a graduate course on “Congress and U.S. National Security Policy” at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Bradley has testified to Congress, appeared on BBC, CBS, and CNN, and edited and co-authored major monographs on topics such as U.S. military posture, information warfare, and the American defense industrial base. He has published hundreds of essays and articles, including ones published by The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy. He earned a master’s in international relations from Yale University and a B.S. in American politics from West Point.