Brement entered the Foreign Service in 1956 as staff assistant in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He attended Chinese language training in
Taichung in 1958–1960, and was political officer in
Hong Kong in 1960–1963. In 1963–1964, he attended Russian language training at the
Foreign Service Institute. He was political officer in
Moscow in 1964–1966. He attended the National Institute of Public Affairs at
Stanford University in 1966–1967. He was chief of the political section in
Singapore (1967–1970), counselor for public affairs in
Jakarta, Indonesia in 1970–1973, counselor for public affairs in
Saigon (1973–1974), counselor for political affairs in
Moscow (1974–1976), and in
Madrid, Spain (1977–1979). He later served on the
National Security Council as a Soviet adviser to President
Jimmy Carter and was a deputy to U.S. Ambassador
Jeane Kirkpatrick at the
United Nations before being appointed ambassador in
Reykjavík in 1981. After leaving Iceland, he spent four years at the
United States Naval War College in
Newport, Rhode Island, where he directed the
Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, an advisory think tank to the Chief of Naval Operations. He served as distinguished visiting professor at the
National Defense University and, from 1999 to 2002, he was an international affairs professor at the University of Virginia. He was fluent in French, Spanish, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Icelandic, and Indonesian. ==Published works==