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General John P. Abizaid is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, who most recently served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Previously, he served on the CIA’s External Advisory Board and as the Distinguished Chair (Emeritus) of the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was also the first Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. In his thirty-four years of active service, he commanded units at every level, serving in Grenada, Lebanon, Kurdistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he has also studied at the University of Jordan in Amman, holds a master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and has received Honorary Degrees from Dartmouth College and Norwich University. Currently, he is the Principal Partner of JPA Partners, LLC, a firm advising private business, government, and academic clients on leadership, national and international strategy, business, security, and military affairs. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as a board member for the Middle East Institute.