Larry M. Wortzel is a veteran Asian scholar and retired Army colonel who spent much of his career in China and East Asia. He served two tours of duty as a military attaché in the American embassy in China and served for 19 years on the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, a Congressional body. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawaii-Manoa and is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College.