Adjunct Senior International/Defense Researcher, Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Bruce W. Bennett is an adjunct senior international/defense researcher at RAND and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He is an expert in Northeast Asian security issues, having visited the region about 130 times and written much about Korean security issues. His research addresses the North Korean military and especially nuclear threats, understanding and shaping the ongoing Korean crises, countering North Korean nuclear and conventional coercion, preparing for and dealing with a North Korean collapse and/or Korean unification, the Korean military balance, and managing third party intervention in Korea. He has also worked on the Persian/Arab Gulf region.
He works primarily on research topics such as strategy, force planning, and counterproliferation within the RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center. His work applies wargaming, risk management, deterrence-based strategy, competitive strategies, and military simulation and analysis. He specializes in “asymmetric threats” such as weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and how to counter those threats with new strategies, operational concepts, and technologies. He teaches a class in the Pardee RAND Graduate School on "Understanding Nuclear Forces."
He has worked with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Forces Korea and Japan, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and Central Command, the ROK and Japanese militaries, and the ROK National Assembly.
Bennett received his Ph.D. in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and his B.S. in economics from the California Institute of Technology.
Ph.D. in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; B.S. in economics, California Institute of Technology
