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Russia and Eurasia / Researcher - Speaker - WriterFrom 2012 - 2014, BG Zwack served as the United States Senior Defense Official and Attaché to the Russian Federation. By interacting with Russians at multiple levels since 1989, including defense, security, academia, policy, veterans, and private citizens, BG Zwack developed a unique hands-on perspective on Russia and Eurasian security affairs during a turbulent period that included the recent strife in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack enlisted in the US Army in 1980 and received his commission via Officer Candidate School (OCS). He subsequently served 34 years as a Military Intelligence and Eurasian Foreign Area Officer serving in diverse and challenging duty locations including West Germany, South Korea, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Russia.Inducted into the OCS Hall of Fame in 2015, BG Zwack is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Defense Superior Service Medal, the Bronze Star, and many other awards and citations including the Afghan Service Medal and NATO/Kosovo Medal. He was also honored as the Joint Chiefs of Staff Action Officer of the Year for 1999. He proudly wears the Ranger Tab and Airborne Wings.Former Senior Russia-Eurasia Research Fellow at National Defense University (Institute for National Strategic Studies) at the National Defense University.Senior Global Fellow The Kennan Institute, the premier U.S. center for advanced research on Russia and Eurasia and the oldest and largest regional program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.BG Zwack regularly consults and lectures within the defense department, private industry, think tanks, and academic institutions on contemporary Russian and Eurasian security issues, and leadership lessons.BG Zwack speaks Russian, German, Italian, and some French.
"""One of the great joys of serving as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation was working with General Peter Zwack. Every day, he demonstrated a deep commitment both to serving our great nation and to understanding Russia. The latter helped him do the former. Swimming the Volga* shows just how deep into Russian society, history, and culture Peter dug. Jumping from the analytic to the personal with ease, it's a brilliant story."" -Ambassador Michael McFaul U.S. Ambassador to Russia 2012-2014 Author of Cold War, Hot Peace; An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia ""Loaded with great insights and stories from his days before serving as U.S. Defense Attaché in Moscow and from his deep involvement with Russia, Brigadier General Zwack brings the past alive to help us understand what Putin is doing today. It is very rare to have pages filled by someone who really knows Russia and knows how to write about it."" -Leslie H. Gelb President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations *Swimming the Volga is a lively, short memoir of life in the small Russian city of Tver (110m from Moscow) as seen through the eyes of a young captain in the U.S. Army during a summer program on Russian culture and language in 1989. Over a ten- year period, Zwack continued his visits to Tver, even as he rose in rank and responsibility. In return, the city provided him with a unique window into the upheavals of Russia in the 1990s. Through Zwack's stories, we meet a set of Russian friends he met at the start of the difficult days in the Soviet Union, through the changes of today's Russia in their lives-as well as the eternal characteristics of the Russian people. An informative and entertaining account by an unusually perceptive visitor."" -Suzanne Massie Personal advisor on the U.S.S.R. to President Ronald Reagan Author of ""Land of the Firebird: "" The Beauty of Old Russia and Trust but Verify: Reagan, Russia, and Me - a memoir of the years 1984-1988 ""This warm and evocative memoir of a Russia addled by change post-1989 is a remarkable chronicle of a U.S. Army officer's disarming empathy for the young Russians he befriended as they sought to find their place in a new world. Never judgmental, the author captures the rich humanity of the successes and failures of unlikely friends and acquaintances observed during the tumultuous decade between Gorbachev and Putin. Moving and haunting."" -Ralph Peters Author of Red Army, Cain at Gettysburg and Looking for Trouble ""This 'coming of age as a Russian Foreign Area Officer' memoir is a phenomenal, warm and provocative story told by retired Brigadier Peter Zwack. This work provides a unique understanding of that part of the world."" -Lt. General Mark Hertling (Ret) Former Commander U.S. Army Europe Author of Growing Physician Leaders CNN national security and military analyst ""Few Americans understand Russians better than Peter Zwack. As a traveler, student, observer and head military attaché to Moscow, he has come to know them in the many aspects of their lives. This memoir, seen through the prism of Zwack's experiences with the people of one city, Tver, is a sharp-eyed view of a complex, contradictory and-yes, extraordinary-nation."" Robert Cowley Founding Editor, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History Author of the upcoming The Killing Season"
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