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George H. Wittman served in the US Army during and after the Korean War and, in the following decades, he became intimately involved in national security, global intelligence matters and international business. As his career developed, he undertook extensive sensitive assignments across the globe. In addition, he took over direction of the family's mining and international trade business, which as G.H. Wittman, Inc. would later undertake international security and political risk management. He served as founding chairman of the National Institute for Public Policy, lectured periodically at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA, and had a consulting relationship with the FBI's New York field office. He was co-founder of The Middle East Newsletter. Along the way, he managed businesses, founded public service organizations, and wrote prolifically. He was a veteran of forty-five years of international security operations and analysis. Even in retirement, he continued to write and offer analysis on international affairs and security matters. He was a regular contributor to several publications including, for thirteen years, a weekly foreign affairs column at The American Spectator, as well as The Washington Times, and AND Magazine. He was technical advisor and unit producer on ABC-TV's 4-hour special,"Africa ". He has also been a guest commentator for the BBC, CBS, ABC, NBC and United Nations Radio. In his quieter moments, he found time to write several novels. His first, A Matter of Intelligence was published by Macmillan in 1975. Above all, he viewed and presented himself as an American patriot, resisting political affiliation and committed to what he believed was in the best interest of the nation.

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