He might have more expertise at writing than fighting:
Bruce Berkowitz is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His work focuses on defense, intelligence, and technology policy. Berkowitz is currently serving as a senior consultant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Berkowitz has published several books about national security affairs, including Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age (Yale University Press, 2000); Strategic Intelligence (Princeton University Press, 1989); and The Need to Know: Covert Action and American Democracy (Twentieth Century, 1992), all with Allan Goodman. He previously published two additional books, Calculated Risks (Simon and Schuster, 1987) and American Security (Yale University Press, 1986). His latest book, The New Face of War, will be published by the Free Press in 2003.
Berkowitz is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and has published articles in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, Technology Review, Air & Space/Smithsonian, and Issues in Science and Technology, the policy journal of the National Academies of Science and Engineering. He writes regularly for the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, where he is a member of the editorial board, and Orbis, where he is a contributing editor.
Berkowitz has also edited two collections of articles on national security affairs: The United States and the Use of Force in the Post Cold War Era (Aspen Institute, 1995) and Securing Peace in the New Era (Aspen Institute, 1994).
In addition to his position at Hoover, Berkowitz is a senior staff member at RAND. He frequently lectures at the National Defense University and the Joint Military Intelligence College on national security issues. Berkowitz has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1990.
Berkowitz was a national fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1983 to 1984, an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1985 to 1986, and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1985 to 1986. He received an Eisenhower Fellowship in 1979 from the Eisenhower Memorial Foundation and the Frederick Thomas Fellowship from the Association of Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired, in 1980.
From 1974 to 1976, Berkowitz attended Stetson University, graduating summa cum laude. He began his career at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served from 1978 to 1980 and 1982 to 1985. He then became a professional staff member for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, serving from 1985 to 1987. Berkowitz completed his graduate studies at the University of Rochester, where he earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science. His home is in Alexandria, Virginia |
