T. Bruce Sweeney

Biography

Colonel Thomas (Bruce) Sweeney is a Military Professor and the FAO Chair in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Necessarily, he is an Army Foreign Area Officer; he speaks French, and used to speak good Hungarian and Russian. Colonel Sweeney’s most recent assignment was as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Immediately prior to that assignment he was SDO/DATT in Paris, France. Colonel Sweeney has extensive overseas experience in almost every region of the world: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific, and South Asia.

Research Interest

African Security Cooperation.