Alexander Vindman
Retired Army officer and foreign policy expert
Alexander Vindman is a retired US Army lieutenant colonel and former National Security Council official. He is the author of Here, Right Matters.
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American Born 1975 in Kyiv, Ukraine
About Alexander Vindman
Alexander Vindman was born in Soviet Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn. He was commissioned as an infantry officer in 1999 and served in the Iraq War, where he was wounded in 2004 and received the Purple Heart. He later became a foreign area officer specializing in Eurasia, and he retired in 2020 after 21 years in the Army. He served as Director of European Affairs on the National Security Council, and in 2019 he testified in Congress during the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. Earlier, he worked on the Joint Staff as a political-military affairs officer focused on Russia, and he served as an attaché at the US Embassy in Moscow. He has also become a writer and lecturer on the war between Russia and Ukraine, and he wrote Here, Right Matters.