Bryan Greenstein

MAJOR, U.S. Air Force

Trends Analysis Program Manager

 Major Bryan Greenstein, a Korea and Northeast Asia regional affairs strategist and career air and space intelligence officer, joined the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in January 2007. He is currently serving as Manager of the APCSS Trends Analysis Program which is focused on identifying, tracking, and reporting on non-defense related trends of interest in the Asia-Pacific region with potential strategic security implications. He has served in a variety of international affairs, command and control, and intelligence operations and staff positions at the squadron, group, wing, and unified combatant command levels.

Highly proficient in the Korean language, he completed his intermediate developmental education as an exchange student in the Republic of Korea Air Force’s Command and Staff Course, Korea Air Force University, Daejon, Korea, from August 2005 to December 2006. In preparation for the course, he attended the Defense Language Institute's Intermediate Korean Language Program, graduating with distinction.

From September 2002 to July 2004, while assigned to the 544th Information Operations Group, Air Combat Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, Maj. Greenstein served as Director of Operations and Executive Officer, ensuring that eight subordinate units worldwide had the operational oversight and guidance required to provide unique space-related intelligence support to Air Force Space Command’s space control mission, national decision-makers and combatant commanders.

From January 1999 to July 2001, he was selected to serve as an Intelligence Foreign Relations Officer on the U.S. Pacific Command J2 staff where he managed operational intelligence relationships with seven key countries in theater, linking J2 initiatives with broader strategic theater engagement objectives. Also in Hawaii, while assigned to the U.S. Pacific Air Force Air Intelligence Squadron, Hickam AFB, from January 1997 to January 1999, he served as Commander, Threat Analysis Flight and Plans and Readiness Flight. In 1996, he completed U.S. Air Force intelligence officer training, graduating at the top of his class.

Maj. Greenstein’s first assignment was to the 355th Wing, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, where he served as an Emergency Actions Officer from August 1993 to April 1996, coordinating emergency response actions for the Wing Commander. He earned his commission in July 1993 as a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Air Force’s Officer Training School, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas.

He graduated summa cum laude from Florida International University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations and holds a Master of Science of strategic intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College, Washington D.C. He has also worked in the private sector as an international trade manager for Daewoo International Corporation.
 

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