“‘Endowed By The Creator’ is a magnificent historic collection of military prayers. For those of us who have experienced the horrors and stress of combat, it reminds us of the comfort and strength we drew from prayer. This blessed work reminds us that America’s Warriors and leaders have called on our creator in the darkest of times to help us through our trials. We should never forget or abandon the value of prayer for our men and women in uniform.”
-General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (ret.)
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Gen. Zinni is a retired four-star General and former Commander in Chief of United States Central Command (CENTCOM). In 2002, he was selected to be aspecial envoy for the United States to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. While serving as special envoy, Zinni was also an instructor in the Department of International Studies at the Virginia Military Institute.
Currently, he is an instructor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, a public speaker, and an author of two best-selling books on his military career and foreign affairs. Zinni also serves on the advisory boards of eight different companies, including the security testing firm, Mu Dynamics, based in Sunnyvale, California. He joined Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy in Spring 2008 as the Sanford Distinguished Lecturer in Residence and taught a new course in the Hart Leadership Program. Since September 2011, he has served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Middle East Institute.
Gen. Zinni has attended the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the National War College. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and two Master of Arts degrees, one in international relations and another in management and supervision.
Gen. Zinni served as the Chief of Staff and Deputy Commanding General of Combined Task Force Operation Provide Comfort during the Kurdish relief effort in Turkey and Iraq; Military Coordinator for Operation Provide Hope, the relief effort for the former Soviet Union; Director for Operations for the Unified Task Force in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope; Assistant to the U.S. Special Envoy to Somalia during Operation Continued Hope; was assigned from 1992 to 1994 as the Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, Virginia; Commanding General, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force; Commander of the Combined Task Force for Operation United Shield, protecting the withdrawal of U.N. forces from Somalia; and Deputy Commander in Chief, United States Central Command. His final tour was from August 1997 to September 2000 as the Commander in Chief, United States Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. He organized Operation Desert Fox, a series of airstrikes against Iraq during December 1998.
