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Peter Brookes
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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 weekly columnist on foreign policy, defense and trade issues for America’s 6th largest paper, the New York Post. Brookes’ column also appears regularly in the Boston Herald, Japan's Daily Yomiuri, Taiwan's China Post, Townhall.com, and Military.com. He frequently appears on local, national, and international TV and radio such as FOX, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and BBC. Brookes also hosts his own radio talk show, The Brookes’ Report, in Washington, DC. He is the author of the forthcoming book, A Devil's Triangle: Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Rogue States.
Before coming to Heritage, Brookes served in the George W. Bush administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs, 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. He also served with the CIA’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, and in the private sector in the defense industry.
He has a distinguished military background in the U.S. Navy, including active duty in tours in Panama and Japan and support of military operations in Iraq/Kuwait (Desert Storm); Haiti (Restore Democracy); and Bosnia (Joint Endeavor) as a reservist. He has over 1300 flight hours aboard Navy EP-3 aircraft, flying reconnaissance missions in East Asia and the Persian Gulf. He is currently a Commander in the Naval Reserves.
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.
He is a frequent public speaker and has testified before both the Senate and House of Representatives on foreign policy, defense and intelligence issues. 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. In 2004, he served on the Bush campaign's foreign policy and veterans’ advisory boards.
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