Brian Slamkowski

Brian is a U.S. Army Infantry Officer with a decade of Light Infantry and Special Operations experience across the Middle East and Asia. His five deployments include combat and contingency operations in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Gonzaga University. As a Wayne A. Downing Scholar with West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, Brian plans to specialize in Cyber Policy in the MIP program before continuing his Army career. Within the Cyber Policy arena, he hopes to improve his strategic analysis and communication abilities against the problem sets of transnational threat networks, especially as they relate to more significant geopolitical threats. His academic interests also include defense innovation, and future planning, particularly concerning violent extremist organizations and emerging near-peer threats. Brian’s wife Laura is a physical therapist, and they have two daughters.