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Attache to Moscow 2012 – 2014

Researcher – Speaker – Writer

Global Fellow
The Kennan Institute
Woodrow Wilson International Center

Former Senior Russia-Eurasia Research Fellow
National Defense University

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  • ABC Nightline,  Articles,  Publications,  Videos

    ABC – Nightline – Lt. Col. Vindman’s former supervisor: He ‘will fall on the right side of history’

    11/20/2019

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  • PRI,  Radio,  Videos

    Gen. Zwack: Calling Vindman a ‘double agent’ ahead of testimony is ‘reprehensible’

    11/08/2019

    https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-10-29/gen-zwack-calling-vindman-double-agent-ahead-testimony-reprehensible

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  • Articles,  New York Times,  Publications

    Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and the Questioning of an American Jew’s Patriotism

    11/08/2019

    One June evening in 2013, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency at the time, welcomed his guests from the GRU (Russian military intelligence) for a dinner in the American embassy compound in Moscow. General Igor Sergun, head of the GRU, arrived with two of his generals and an interpreter at the embassy home of Army brigadier general Peter Zwack, who was the American defense attaché. That night, Russian and American military intelligence officers, who had long been suspicious of one another, tried to put a good face on things. At the time, the Obama administration’s initiative to “reset” relations with Russia was floundering. Pro-democracy protests in Moscow had President…

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  • Articles,  Defense One,  Publications

    Donald Trump is No Jack Kennedy. Or Khrushchev.

    10/30/2020

    The president lacks the experience, character, credibility, and confidence to navigate our country through a Cuban Missile Crisis. We need Joe Biden. By CHARLIE MARTINEZ, NANCY SODERBERG and PETER ZWACK The world teetered on the brink of nuclear catastrophe 58 years ago this month. The 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962 tested the maturity and wisdom of the nuclear-armed United States and Soviet Union at a time when mutual distrust and suspicion ruled the day. One of us was a boy in Miami then and still has strong memories of how close we came to nuclear war. What ultimately saved us all was a deep appreciation by President…

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  • Articles,  Politico

    Is President Donald Trump a Flight Risk? Yes, this sounds like a B-grade spy novel. But consider the evidence.

    10/28/2020

    He said it. Earlier this month, at a campaign rally in Macon, Georgia, President Donald Trump mused aloud to the crowd about what he might do if he loses the election on November 3. “Maybe I’ll have to leave the country, I don’t know,” Trump said. Was the statement merely a sour-grapes throwaway line by a cantankerous candidate facing potential defeat? Or was it a signal that Trump might actually abandon—some would say flee—our shores and seek refuge elsewhere if he is routed by a Joe Biden victory? During my long military intelligence career I spent countless hours with my peers working on diverse “What if … ?” contingency scenarios…

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  • Articles,  CNN,  Publications

    Two men whose fates differed under Trump’s twisted take on justice

    10/22/2020

    Rachel Vindman’s CNN interview on Monday was a tour de force of grace, courage and patriotism. After her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, testified during the House impeachment hearings in October 2019, the Vindmans became the target of vile threats and thuggish retaliation that no American family should have to endure. The most vocal detractor was President Donald Trump, who took aim at Vindman for daring to speak up. In the year since the impeachment hearings, the Vindman family has been harassed and threatened online and by mail by Trump supporters. “What happened to us could happen to anyone,” Rachel Vindman calmly warns listeners in a new political ad by The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Republican campaign organization.…

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  • Articles,  National Interest,  Publications

    The Nuances of Navigating a Politically Charged Northeast Asia

    09/04/2020

    Seventy-five years ago, on Sept. 2, 1945, dignitaries from nine Allied Powers boarded the USS Missouri to bear witness to history. Three days earlier, the magnificent warship had entered Tokyo Bay. It was flying the same flag flown over the White House on December 7, 1941, the day of the surprise Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor that catapulted the United States into World War II. Now, almost four years after the attack, a small Japanese delegation joined the gathering on the deck of the USS Missouri and, at the invitation of Gen. Douglas McArthur,

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  • Articles,  National Interest,  Publications

    The Nuances of Navigating a Politically Charged Northeast Asia

    08/30/2020

    Seventy-five years ago, on Sept. 2, 1945, dignitaries from nine Allied Powers boarded the USS Missouri to bear witness to history. Three days earlier, the magnificent warship had entered Tokyo Bay. It was flying the same flag flown over the White House on December 7, 1941, the day of the surprise Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor that catapulted the United States into World War II. Now, almost four years after the attack, a small Japanese delegation joined the gathering on the deck of the USS Missouri and, at the invitation of Gen. Douglas McArthur, two members signed a brief document proclaiming “unconditional surrender … of all Japanese armed forces.” In twenty-three minutes, with a few pen strokes and polite ceremony,…

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  • Articles,  CNN,  Uncategorized,  Videos

    CNN Brianna Keiler with Mark Milley Peter Zwack

    06/12/2020

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  • Articles,  The Hill

    Why Are We Pulling Additional Forces Out of Germany?

    06/09/2020

    The Trump administration’s decision to unilaterally withdraw additional military forces from Germany is short-sighted and unsettling. Why now? And why during these so unsteady times? We’ve already drawn down so much in Europe and serious, unresolved threats clearly remain. Is this a carefully staffed policy decision or just planning by a small group of administration insiders? Why so little pre-coordination with host nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or even our own military commands in Europe? And why is the White House in such a hurry to get this done by September? Is this, in part, a personal jab toward Germany? These military drawdowns, often involving moving families and shutting bases,…

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  • Articles,  CNN,  Publications,  Videos

    CNN: Brooke Baldwin – LTC Alex Vindman -BG Peter Zwack {Ret.}

    05/05/2020

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  • Articles,  New York Daily News,  Publications

    Honor These Vets Coronavirus or Not

    05/05/2020

    https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-honor-these-vets-coronavirus-or-not-20200425-khmxumuicfcclfmfjh4iwyagom-story.html

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  • Articles,  Publications,  The Hill,  Uncategorized

    Take Time to Remember the Handshake That Changed the World

    05/05/2020

    https://thehill.com/opinion/international/493785-take-time-to-remember-the-handshake-that-changed-the-world

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  • Oct 28, 2020 Is President Donald Trump a Flight Risk? Yes, this sounds like a B-grade spy novel. But consider the evidence.
  • Oct 22, 2020 Two men whose fates differed under Trump’s twisted take on justice
  • Sep 04, 2020 The Nuances of Navigating a Politically Charged Northeast Asia
  • Aug 30, 2020 The Nuances of Navigating a Politically Charged Northeast Asia
  • Jun 12, 2020 CNN Brianna Keiler with Mark Milley Peter Zwack
  • Jun 09, 2020 Why Are We Pulling Additional Forces Out of Germany?
  • May 05, 2020 CNN: Brooke Baldwin – LTC Alex Vindman -BG Peter Zwack {Ret.}
  • May 05, 2020 Honor These Vets Coronavirus or Not
  • May 05, 2020 Take Time to Remember the Handshake That Changed the World

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