Bruce Berkowitz
Research Fellow

Expertise: National security affairs, defense and intelligence policy, technology issues

Bruce Berkowitz is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Berkowitz has written several books, including The New Face of War (Free Press, 2003), Calculated Risks (Simon and Schuster, 1987), and American Security (Yale, 1986) and coauthored Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age (Yale, 2000), Strategic Intelligence (Princeton, 1989), and The Need to Know: Covert Action and American Democracy, (Twentieth Century, 1992). He is the author of many articles that have appeared in such journals as Foreign Affairs, National Interest, Foreign Policy, and Issues in Science and Technology. He also has published frequently in the pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.

Most recently, he served as the director of Forecasting and Evaluation at the Department of Defense (2004–5) and continues to serve as a consultant and adviser to the government on defense and intelligence issues. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1990 and is a member of the editorial boards of Orbis and the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.

Berkowitz was a national fellow at the Hoover Institution (1983–84), an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (1985–86), and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution (1985–86). 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 (DACOR) in 1980. In 2001–2 Berkowitz was the first Sherman Kent Scholar in Residence at the CIA's Sherman Kent Center for Analysis.

A summa cum laude graduate of Stetson University (1974–76), he completed his graduate studies at the University of Rochester, earning an M.A. and a Ph.D. He began his career at the Central Intelligence Agency and served as a professional staff member for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C.