ABOUT
Lieutenant Colonel James G. Zumwalt is a retired US Marine infantry officer who served in the Vietnam war, the 1989 intervention in Panama, and Desert Storm. He is an internationally acclaimed best-selling author as well as a speaker and a business executive. Jim also currently heads a security consulting firm named after his father—Admiral Zumwalt & Consultants, Inc.
He writes often and extensively on American foreign policy and defense issues with hundreds of articles for various newspapers and magazines.
They include USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, The San Diego Union, Parade magazine and others. Jim's articles have covered issues of crucial and emerging importance, often times providing readers with unique perspectives that have never appeared elsewhere.
This has resulted, on several occasions, in his work being cited by members of Congress and entered into the US Congressional Record.
And his thoughtful perspectives earned him an invitation to join and add to the strategic offerings of the prestigious Committee on the Present Danger (CPD). The CPD is non-partisan and has one overriding goal—to stiffen American resolve to confront effectively the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that shape it and drive it.
Colonel Zumwalt is featured as one of 56 US military professionals in LEADING THE WAY, a book by best-selling author Al Santoli.
Hailed as a well-done oral history, the book makes clear why our military was so much more effective in the Persian Gulf than in Vietnam. James Webb, Colin Powell, and a number of others reveal how confidence, discipline, and integrity were restored to the military after the low of Vietnam and the even lower low
of the immediate post-Vietnam era.
Santoli's book documents the most critical moments of the interviewees’ combat experiences from Vietnam to Somalia.
Colonel Zumwalt has also been cited in a spectrum of books and publications for his unique insights that arise from his deep and persevering research on the Vietnam war, on the odd bastion of North Korea (a country that he's been to ten times and about which he shares a host of telling and unnerving stories and observations), and Desert Storm.
He received a presidential appointment to be the Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1991-92).
And because of his expertise, he also was asked to participate in a breakthrough educational project conceived and conducted at a high school in Raleigh, NC, where Colonel Zumwalt voluntarily contributes time and resources to educating students on issues of international importance. The Zumwalts have a long and valued history with North Carolina.
