He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas, and his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. Brobst has written and spoken widely on contemporary issues of defense and foreign policy as well as historical problems of strategy and diplomacy. He is the author of The Future of the Great Game: Sir Olaf Caroe, India’s Independence, and the Defense of Asia, and is currently completing a book about British and American sea power in the Indian Ocean during the Cold War.