Brendan Mulvaney

Director
China Aerospace Studies Institute
National Defense University

Brendan Mulvaney is currently the Director of the China Aerospace Studies Institute at National Defense University. Dr Mulvaney was a Marine for a quarter of a century, where he flew more than 2000 hours as a AH-1W Cobra pilot, and was an Olmsted Scholar in Shanghai, China. Brendan enlisted in 1991 and was commissioned in 1993 after graduating from UC San Diego. He earned his Master’s in Leadership from the University of San Diego in 2002, and was selected as one of three Marine Olmsted Scholars for 2003. Brendan studied at Fudan University in Shanghai, China from 2003-2005 where he earned his Ph.D. in International Relations. Brendan served several tours in California, Iraq, Japan, and the Western Pacific. He served as the first Director of the Commandant’s Red Team, and supervised the implementation of Red Teaming in the Marine Corps. In 2013 Brendan transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was the Associate Chair for the Languages and Cultures Department, and taught Mandarin Chinese, Chinese culture, and crosscultural literacy. He and his wife, Samantha, have twin thirteen-year old boys, Sean and Ryan, and live in Alexandria, VA.

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