Brett is the editorial page editor of The Washington Times. He spent the previous five years as senior vice president at the Export-Import Bank and Pentagon Federal Credit Union. He served as editorial page writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and for the Far Eastern Economic Review and was speechwriter to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay. An adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University and a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, he received a Master's in military strategy from the U.S. Naval War College, a Master's in government from Johns Hopkins and a B.A. in political science from Albion College. Brett's first book, Global Filipino, was published by Regnery in 2008; his latest book, Bowing to Beijing, was published by Regnery in November 2011.