Biography
Phillip M. Zeman
Colonel, USMC (Ret)
A native of Rockport, Massachusetts, Phil began service as a Marine Officer immediately after graduating from Boston University in 1993.
Phil attained the rank of Colonel during a fulfilling, diverse, and challenging 30-year career in the Marine Corps serving in leadership, operations, strategy, and planning postings which included formal specialty designations in infantry, special operations, and strategy & planning.
His career took him across the globe through postings on both coasts of the United States, Okinawa, Japan and two shipboard deployments to the Mediterranean Sea. Phil also deployed twice to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom where he ran a Regimental Combat Operations Center and as a Battalion Executive Officer. In 2009-2010 Phil deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom where he served as the senior Marine liaison to British Task Force Helmand & the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team (UK). Later in the deployment he served as the Executive and Operations officer for the establishment of the Afghan 215th Corps. Upon his return from Afghanistan, Phil assumed Command of the 1200 Marine Headquarters Battalion in Twentynine Palms, CA.
The last ten years of his career were focused on strategic and enterprise-level planning and operations, and in graduate instruction where he taught strategy and developed (and taught) a curriculum on Mobilization.
Phil holds a Bachelor of History degree from Boston University. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in International Security from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and a Master of Science in Strategy and Campaign Planning from the Joint Advanced Warfighting School, National Defense University. Phil has published numerous articles including Tribalism & Terror (Small Wars & Insurgencies, Sept-Dec 2009); The Foreign Area Officer’s Association (FAOA) 2014 Award Winner Finding a National Approach to Combat the Terror-Crime Nexus: A Hezbollah & Transnational Organized Crime Case Study (FAOA Journal, Summer 2014) and Social A2AD (Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Spring 2021).
Phil attained the rank of Colonel during a fulfilling, diverse, and challenging 30-year career in the Marine Corps serving in leadership, operations, strategy, and planning postings which included formal specialty designations in infantry, special operations, and strategy & planning.
His career took him across the globe through postings on both coasts of the United States, Okinawa, Japan and two shipboard deployments to the Mediterranean Sea. Phil also deployed twice to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom where he ran a Regimental Combat Operations Center and as a Battalion Executive Officer. In 2009-2010 Phil deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom where he served as the senior Marine liaison to British Task Force Helmand & the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team (UK). Later in the deployment he served as the Executive and Operations officer for the establishment of the Afghan 215th Corps. Upon his return from Afghanistan, Phil assumed Command of the 1200 Marine Headquarters Battalion in Twentynine Palms, CA.
The last ten years of his career were focused on strategic and enterprise-level planning and operations, and in graduate instruction where he taught strategy and developed (and taught) a curriculum on Mobilization.
Phil holds a Bachelor of History degree from Boston University. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in International Security from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and a Master of Science in Strategy and Campaign Planning from the Joint Advanced Warfighting School, National Defense University. Phil has published numerous articles including Tribalism & Terror (Small Wars & Insurgencies, Sept-Dec 2009); The Foreign Area Officer’s Association (FAOA) 2014 Award Winner Finding a National Approach to Combat the Terror-Crime Nexus: A Hezbollah & Transnational Organized Crime Case Study (FAOA Journal, Summer 2014) and Social A2AD (Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Spring 2021).