COL Benjamin Hopper

COL Ben Hopper is an Army Military Intelligence (MI) Officer with a wide variety of National Security Experience. He is a native of Indiana where he attended undergraduate and ROTC at Indiana University. He later received his master’s in security studies at Kansas State. Ben has deployed 14 times in support of U.S. security interests including Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Qatar, and Korea. He served in a variety of roles, including Senior Intelligence Officer, member of the intelligence community, posts in the National Security Agency, and Joint Task Force Commander. Ben spent more than 11 years in the Special Operations community with the majority of that time in the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment where he served a variety of roles including the Senior Intelligence Officer during the withdrawal from Afghanistan,  commander of the Ranger’s Military Intelligence and Multi-Domain unit, and was the first MI Officer to serve as the Deputy Commander of the Ranger Regiment.