The Military History Seminar SeriesMilitary History Center University of North Texas 8 October 2011 "Dilemmas of American Power 1776 to 2011" Download Flier | Reservation Form | Online Registration and Credit Card Payment
General Zinni has participated in presidential diplomatic missions to Somalia, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, and State Department missions involving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and conflicts in Indonesia and the Philippines. He has worked in mediation and negotiation efforts with the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the US Institute of Peace, and the Henri Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. He has also been President of UCLA's Center for Middle East Development, a Distinguished Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an Honorary Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of the Council's Middle East Forum, a board member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, Chairman of the Board of the Institute of World Affairs, Co-Chair of the American Security Project, member of the board of the Henri Dunant Centre, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Policy Advisory Group, and Co-Chair of The Center for U.S. Global Engagement's National Security Advisory Council. General Zinni was the Terry Sanford Lecturer in Residence and Visiting Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University and currently holds the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professorship at Cornell University. He has held academic positions that include the Stanley Chair in Ethics at the Virginia Military Institute; the Nimitz Chair at the University of California- Berkeley; the Hofheimer Chair at the Joint Forces Staff College; the Weisberg Chair at Beloit College; the Harriman Professor of Government Chair and membership on the Reves Center for International Studies at the College of William and Mary; membership on the board of Villanova University's Center for Responsible Leadership and Governance; membership in Villanova's President's Club; and selection as a Carter O. Lowance Fellow in Law and Public Policy at the William and Mary Law School. He has also lectured at numerous colleges and universities in the U. S. and abroad. General Zinni's presentation for the 2011 Hurley Military History Seminar is titled: "The Generals' Dilemma: Aligning Warfighting With Politics, from the American Revolution to the War in Afghanistan."
He received an appointment to the Marine Corps Command & Staff College (CSC) in 2002. Mid-term, he deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) I as the Engineer Plans Officer, with the Coalition Force Land Component Command. Returning from OIF I and completing his coursework at CSC, he received assignment to Joint Task Force North as the USMC Engineer Plans Officer. In 2006, he reported to Combat Logistics Battalion-22, 2d Marine Logistics Group and served as the Executive Officer. During this assignment, he deployed to Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa as the Civil Military Operations Plans Officer. During the deployment, he served as the Mission Commander for both Unity Night (Ethiopia), Unity Eclipse (Kenya) and later as the Military Training Team Commander to the Ugandan Peoples Defense Force (African Union Mission to Somalia) to relieve Ethiopian forces in Somalia. Returning to 2d Marine Logistics Group in 2007, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and served as G3, Operations Officer. In 2008, he was assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force as the G4, Engineer Officer. LtCol Frietze served as the G7 Engineer for OIF FY09. While preparing for deployment, he was command selected, reassigned to 2d Marine Expeditionary Brigade as the G7 Engineer, and deployed to Afghanistan to facilitate the introduction of forces into the Helmand Province. In May 2009, he assumed command of 7th Engineer Support Battalion and deployed the battalion to the Helmand Province of combat operations. LtCol Frietze was selected to attend Top Level School at the Argentine Defense University in Buenos Aries and is currently studying Spanish in Monterey, California. His personal decorations include the Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy/Marine Commendation Medal with two Gold Stars, Navy/Marine Achievement Medal and the Combat Action Ribbon. He is married to the former Katherine M. Holmes, they have four children, Kaitlyn, Victoria, Jacob, and Ethan. LtCol Frietze's luncheon presentation is titled: "U.S. Marine Engineers in the Helmand Province: The Big Red 7."
A graduate of Georgetown and Princeton Universities, he also studied at Fribourg University in Switzerland and was Woodrow Wilson fellow at Princeton. A Marine platoon commander in Vietnam, he was a member of the Force Reconnaissance team that initiated Operation Stingray - small unit attacks behind enemy lines. While serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense, he chaired the United States Security Commissions with El Salvador, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, Pakistan, South Korea and Japan. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Department of the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal and Tunisia's Medaille de Liberté, awarded for an action following a raid from Libya. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Middle East Institute, the Infantry Order of St. Crispin and the Newport Reading Room, he appears frequently on C-SPAN and The News Hour. His books include The Village, a narrative of 485 days of combat in Vietnam that has been on the Marine Commandant's Reading List for 40 years; The Pepperdogs: (a novel); The Strongest Tribe, a history of the Iraq war that was a New York Times Bestseller; and The Wrong War, a history of the Afghanistan war. His web site is www.bingwest.com. He is the recipient of Marine Corps Heritage Award, the Colby Military History Award, the General Goodpaster Prize for Military Scholarship, the Free Press Award, the Marine Corps Russell Award for Leadership and the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Media Award. His articles appear regularly in The Wall St. Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The National Review and The Washington Post. He and his wife, Elizabeth, reside in Newport, RI. Colonel West's talk is titled: "The Public's Dilemma: Who Will Fight for Us?" Military History Seminar Topics and Speakers:
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Our morning speaker will be General Anthony C. Zinni, a retired four-star General of the United States Marine Corps and former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command. 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. He 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. His 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. General Zinni's 23 personal awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; the Distinguished Service Medal; the Defense Superior Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters; the Bronze Star with Combat "V" and Gold Star; the Purple Heart; the Meritorious Service Medal with Gold Star; the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat "V" and Gold Star; the Navy Achievement Medal with Gold Star; the Combat Action Ribbon; and personal awards from Vietnam, France, Italy, Egypt, Kuwait, Yemen, and Bahrain. He also holds 37 unit, service, and campaign awards.
Our luncheon presentation will be given by Lieutenant-Colonel Phillip Frietze of the United States Marine Corps. A graduate of New Mexico State University and commissioned in 1991, LtCol Frietze has completed the Amphibious War School, the U.S. Army Engineer Officers Advanced Course, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the Joint Forces Staff College. In 1994, LtCol Frietze reported to Marine Wing Support Group-37 and served as Commanding Officer - PSD, Plans and Assistant Operations Officer. This marked the beginning of an outstanding career that has thus far seen LtCol Frietze serve as the Inspector-Instructor, C Co, 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, 4th Marine Division; the Commanding Officer of the Engineer Support Company and the Operations Officer of the 9th Engineer Support Battalion; and the Special Action Committee/Facilities Implementation Officer at Marine Corp Base Japan.
Our afternoon talk will be given by The Honorable Francis J. "Bing" West. An author of eight books on national security, he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration. Other posts he has held include: Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense, Vice President of the Hudson Institute and Dean of Research at the Naval War College. He has also been an analyst at the Rand Corporation, a visiting professor at Tufts University and president of GAMA Corporation.