Brandon Tran

2LT Brandon Tran is a US Army Military Intelligence officer. He holds BS in International Affairs and Chinese from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has interned with the Center for Naval Analyses, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Army War College, working on Indo-Pacific security issues. He has been published in The Diplomat, Asia Policy, the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, and more. Brandon was selected as a 2026 Rhodes Scholar and a 2025 Truman Scholar. He will pursue an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford this fall.