Economic Forum (Prague). He has been interviewed
by the BBC, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Balti-
more Sun and other media and twice testified before
Congress on the topic of Climate Change and Security.
He is author or editor of numerous national security
publications, including the Parameters article, “The
Strategic Importance of Water,” and co-author of the
book, Geopolitics of Southern Africa: South Africa as
Regional Superpower, and co-editor of the book Eco-
nomics and National Security: the Case of China.
Mr. Brent C. Bankus
Brent C. Bankus retired as a promotable Lieutenant
Colonel from the Army National Guard Active Guard
Reserve Program with over 25 years service in Janu-
ary 2005. His military career, beginning in 1979 as an
Armor/Cavalry officer commissioned through the Re-
serve Officer Training Corps program of Bloomsburg
University of Pennsylvania encompassed command
and staff positions in the U.S. Army, Army National
Guard, and the Army Reserve.
As a combat arms officer in Armor/Cavalry, Mech-
anized and Light Infantry units LTC (R) Bankus served
in assignments within the United States and Germany
(3-11thArmored Cavalry Regiment); 1-314th Infantry,
157th Separate Infantry Brigade (M) (USAR); 2-111th
Infantry, 56th Brigade, 28th Infantry Division, Penn-
sylvania Army National Guard as well as fact finding
missions to Bosnia, Kosovo, the Sinai, Eritrea, Guam,
and Hawaii and a staff training mission to Tirana, Al-
bania. At the operational and strategic levels, he was
the Executive Officer of the National Guard Bureau’s
Counter Drug Directorate; Director of Joint Training
and Exercises, U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute, U.S.