General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. is a retired United States Army General who served as Commander of U.S. Central Command and was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991.

Schwarzkopf graduated in 1956 with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the United States Military Academy. He also attended the University of Southern California and received a Master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1964. His field of study was guided missile engineering.

In 1965, after Schwarzkopf's first year as a faculty member at West Point, he applied to join the battle in the Vietnam War. Schwarzkopf served as a task force adviser to a South Vietnamese Airborne Division, where he was promoted from Captain to Major. In 1968, Major Schwarzkopf became a Lieutenant Colonel.

Schwarzkopf served as deputy commander of U.S. forces in the invasion of Grenada (1983).

In 1988,Schwarzkopf was promoted to General and was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. Central Command was responsible for operations in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.

Schwarzkopf was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991 and responsible for the strategy that went into Iraq behind the Iraqi forces occupying Kuwait bringing the ground war to a close in just four days.

His father, H. Norman Schwarzkopf, was an army officer who served in World War I and World War II, and the Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police during the Lindbergh kidnapping case of the 1930s.