Bradshaw was commissioned into the &lt;a href="14th/20th%20King%27s%20Hussars"&gt;14th/20th King's Hussars&lt;/a&gt; in 1980. In 1994 he became Commanding Officer of the King's Royal Hussars commanding the KRH Battlegroup in Bosnia. On promotion to Brigadier he became Senior Advisor to the "Combined Forces Air Component Command" preparing for the invasion of Iraq. He was Deputy Commander of "Task Force West" during the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and took charge of 7th Armoured Brigade during initial stabilisation operations in April 2003. By 2006 he was Director Special Forces.