ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

Biography

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Brennan III is an Army FA59 (Strategist) who served for three years as the strategy branch chief for the Joint Counter-sUAS Office. During his tenure, he led the redesign of the DoD counter-sUAS enterprise, authored DoD-wide policy for counter-sUAS, and was later assigned to the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Strategy, where he developed the department’s first strategy for countering unmanned systems. He currently serves in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Middle East, as the Qatar and Bahrain Country Director. Previously, LTC Brennan worked at the Army Capability Integration Center, where he led the development of Army Title 10 wargames to support future force design, and at U.S. Army Africa, where he led Security Force Assistance planning for North, West and Central Africa. He has an MA in International Security Studies from the University of Denver and a BA in Justice and Social Inquiry from Arizona State University.