Colonel Patrick M. Biggs is a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His areas of professional expertise are East Asia, security cooperation, military engineering, and army operations and training.
Colonel Biggs’s assignments have included as platoon leader, company commander and brigade engineer, Third Brigade, Second Infantry Division (Fort Lewis, Washington); brigade engineer observer coach/trainer and live fire operations observer coach/trainer (Fort Irwin, California); battalion executive officer, Third Brigade, First Infantry Division (Fort Bliss, Texas); command engineer, Combined Joint Operations Command–Jordan (Amman, Jordan); joint engineer planner, US Forces Korea (Yongsan, Korea); direct commission officer, 130th Engineer Brigade, and commander, 65th Brigade Engineer Battalion (Schofield Barracks, Hawaii); and task force senior trainer, Operations Group (National Training Center, Fort Irwin).
His operational deployments include three deployments for Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) and one for Operation Inherent Resolve (Jordan).
Colonel Biggs is married to US Army captain (ret.) Beini Bao, and they have two daughters.