Retired Brigadier General Peter Zwack served as a U.S. Army Military Intelligence and Foreign Area Officer over a 34 year career with overseas posts that included Afghanistan, Kosovo, Russia, South Korea and West Germany. He was the US Defense Attache to Russia during challenging 2012-2014 and has worked and travelled extensively within Eurasia including Russia and the former USSR. He is a Wilson Center Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute for advanced Russian studies and an adjunct Fellow at the Pell Center for International Relations. He is author of the recently published memoirs; “Swimming the Volga” and “Afghanistan Kabul Kurier.”  He writes from his home in Newport, RI where he lives with his beloved wife Stephanie.