Brigadier Genl. Peter Zwack
Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack (Ret) was a Defense Attache to Moscow, and is currently a Global Fellow at The Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 2019-2021. He was also a Senior Russia-Eurasia Research Fellow at National Defense University, and is a Researcher – Speaker – Author. His books include: Afghanistan Kabul Kurier: One Soldier's Story of the Taliban, Tribes & Loyalties, Opium Trade, & Burqas; and Swimming the Volga: A U.S. Army Officer's Experiences in Pre-Putin Russia. BGr Zwack served in senior military positions both for Republican and Democratic Administrations (Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump). These include Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Ambassador to Moscow, Commander of European Command and US Army Europe, commander Kosovo Force and Afghanistan (NATO) and Directors of Defense Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and Army Cyber Command. As the senior Defense Attache to Moscow in 2014, he was present when the Russians invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea and had seen a variation of this before.
