10 Jul Anthony Zinni
Speaker: Anthony Zinni
Author of NYT best-seller, Battle Ready, a book on his military career and foreign affairs, retired general in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
Speech Topics Include:
- Leadership, Management and Ethics
- Team Building and Mentoring
- Domestic and International Policy Issues
- International Affairs and Commerce
- International Peace Missions
- International Peace Initiatives
- Middle Eastern Policy & Strategies
- Environmental Security Issues (how climate change affects international relations and security issues)
General Zinni joined the Marine Corps` Platoon Leader Class program in 1961 and was commissioned an infantry second lieutenant in 1965 upon graduation from Villanova University. He held numerous command and staff assignments that included platoon, company, battalion, regimental, Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Marine Expeditionary Force command. His staff assignments included service in operations, training, special operations, counter-terrorism, and manpower billets. Speaker Anthony Zinni has been a tactics and operations instructor at several Marine Corps schools and was selected as a fellow on the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group.
General Zinni`s joint assignments included command of a joint task force and a unified command. He has also had several joint and combined staff billets at joint task force and unified command levels.
His military service has taken him to over 70 countries and includes deployments to the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the Western Pacific, Northern Europe, and Korea. He has also served tours of duty in Okinawa and Germany. His operational experiences included two tours in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded; emergency relief and security operations in the Philippines; Operation Provide Comfort in Turkey and northern Iraq; Operation Provide Hope in the former Soviet Union; Operations Restore Hope, Continue Hope, and United Shield in Somalia; Operations Resolute Response and Noble Response in Kenya; Operations Desert Thunder, Desert Fox, Desert Viper, Desert Spring, Southern Watch, and Maritime Intercept Operations in Iraq and the Persian Gulf; and Operation Infinite Reach against terrorist targets in the Central Region. Speaker Anthony Zinni was involved in the planning and execution of Operation Proven Force and Operation Patriot Defender during the Gulf War.
Leadership, Management and Ethics
Team Building and Mentoring
Domestic and International Policy Issues
International Affairs and Commerce
International Peace Missions
International Peace Initiatives
Middle Eastern Policy & Strategies
Environmental Security Issues (how climate change affects international relations and security issues)
