WRITINGS ARCHIVE
NOTE: as of May 2023, LtCol Zumwalt's op-eds will ALL be accessible in year by year listings. Those posted on the BLOG page of the site will remain there as well as appear in the year by year listings. This has been done in behalf of any visitors who have an interest in Jim's observations. They will spend less time scrolling down the listings than clicking through the Blog format.
Jim Zumwalt has kept watch over the currents and fissures of American social and political culture for many years. He began to articulate his hopes and fears in the form of diagnostic columns and "Op-Ed" pieces. Not all his observations appear in the Blog of this website but well over 300 of them do. They repay the careful reader with a continuum of insights that has retained its value.
Each of these over-400 pieces is keyed to one of a handful of "existential" issues that the writer will then illuminate via the lens of some particular event that seems to have no import. Lt Col Zumwalt USMC (ret) will then connect the dots and "unpack" what might be invisible at first look. He is especially strong in boldly tracing the motives and end-game of the mullahs who rule Iran.
In 2008, Jim wrote a rather short piece on his son choosing EOD (bomb-defuzer) in the Navy as his MOS. See story. He survived. Won The Bronze Star.
