Foggo was born in September 1959 in the HQ Northern Army Group in Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen in West Germany.

Ashore, Foggo has served as special assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology; senior member of the Atlantic Fleet Nuclear Propulsion Examining Board at Commander Fleet Forces Command; executive assistant to the director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion (NAVSEA 08); division chief, Joint Staff (J5) for Western Europe and the Balkans; director, executive assistant to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; executive officer to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and commander, United States European Command, Director, Assessment Division (N81) and assistant deputy chief of naval operations (operations, plans and strategy) (N3/N5B).

During this period, he served as the operations officer (J-3) for Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn (Libya).

[3] Foggo is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Explorer’s Club of New York,[citation needed] and was as of January 2023 a distinguished fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis.

[4] As recently as November 2021 Foggo served as the dean for the Center for Maritime Strategy, a Washington-based think tank that is a part of the Navy League of the United States.