We welcome retired Brigadier General and Wilson Center Global Fellow, Peter Zwack, as our first guest on the Global Visions podcast. General Zwack has maintained a distinguished career of military, policy, and academic service, with a focus on Russian and Eurasian security affairs. He served as a Military Intelligence and Eurasian Foreign Area Officer for 34 years in such diverse locations as West Germany, South Korea, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Russia. General Zwack has also served as the U.S. Senior Defense Official and Attache to the Russian Federation from 2012-2014. Most recently, he has joined the Keenan Institute as a Wilson Center Global Fellow, and he has published two books detailing his experiences serving abroad: Afghanistan Kabul Kabir and Swimming in the Volga.