Jack H. Jacobs

Jack H. Jacobs is the Senior Fellow of the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he has been teaching since 2005, and for more than 20 years has been a principal of The Fitzroy Group, Ltd., a firm that specializes in the development of residential real estate in London. He has served as an on-air military analyst for NBC News since 2002, where he was a member of the team that produced the segment "Iraq: The Long Way Out," which won the 2011 Murrow Award. Colonel Jacobs was a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of AutoFinance Group Inc., one of the firms to pioneer the securitization of debt instruments, from 1988 to 1989; the firm was subsequently sold to KeyBank. He was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust Corporation, a diversified financial institution and investment bank, where he ran foreign exchange options worldwide and was a partner in the institutional hedge fund business. Colonel Jacobs' military career included two tours of duty in Vietnam where he was among the most highly decorated soldiers, earning three Bronze Stars, two Silver Stars, and the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest combat decoration. He retired from active military duty as a Colonel in 1987.