Gen. Zinni: Environment Bigger Threat Than Extremists

General Anthony Zinni argues that the most significant security threat in the future is energy and environment. He explains that the continued use of fossil fuels will continue to warm the climate, causing damage that will destabilize the security of entire populations.

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General Zinni discusses "Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom."

In this fragile economic environment, times are changing at an ever-increasing velocity. Old systems, organizations, and ways of operating no longer work in our dynamic, complex and increasingly unstable new environment.

Out of this chaos and confusion, a new and different leader must emerge. Old systems and methods will no longer work. Tomorrow's successful leaders in all fields, including the military, academia, politics, and business must know how to create, operate, and thrive in very fluid, flattened, and integrated structures that are remarkably different from the traditional organizations we are used to seeing.

They will have to manage rapid changes, and create faster and more far-reaching spans of control. General Zinni's unique insights will apply to you. - Hudson Union Society

Anthony Charles Zinni is a retired general in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). In 2002, he was selected to be a special envoy for the United States to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He has been a public critic of the Bush administration and did not support the decision to go to war in Iraq.

While serving as special envoy, Zinni was also an instructor in the Department of International Studies at the Virginia Military Institute. Presently, he is an instructor in the Department of Government at the College of William and Mary, a public speaker, and an author of two best-selling books on his military career and foreign affairs, most recently Battle for Peace.

Additionally, he is involved in the corporate world, joining M.I.C. Industries as its president for International Operations in 2005.