Jaromír Zůna

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence

Jaromír Zůna has been a professional soldier since 1980. During his military career, he has held top positions at the tactical, operational and strategic levels of command and control of the Czech Army, NATO and in foreign operations, including the position of the First Deputy of the Czech Army National Defence Staff. He served as Commander of the Training Command - Military Academy Vyškov, worked at the Logistics Directorate in Stará Boleslav and in the Support Section of the Ministry of Defence in Prague. Some of the milestones in his military career include his participation as the only member of the Czech Armed Forces at the Washington Treaty signing ceremony and as the first member of the Czech Armed Forces serving as a liason officer in the U.S. Army at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (U.S. TRADOC). He has completed four levels of training at U.S. military schools under the IMET program and has held senior positions in NATO command structures (NATO JFTC) and others. The main areas of expertise he has conceptually pursued throughout his career in both command and staff roles for which he has been responsible, included personnel training, military education, military doctrine, military concept development, logistics, health care, KIS, asset management and acquisitions, defence planning, NATO integration, international activities of the Czech Armed Forces and other. He was one of the main creators and promoters of the transformation of the personnel training system and the transformation of military education in connection with the professionalisation of the Czech Armed Forces. 

Personal information

Retired Lieutenant General Mgr. Ing. Jaromír Zůna, MSc., Ph.D., born on 26 November 1960

Education

2014-2017: International Relations and European Studies, Metropolitan University Prague (Mgr.)

2010: doctoral studies, University of Defence in Brno (Ph.D.)

2010: Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, USA

2005-2006: National War College, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., USA

(MSc.)

1998-1999: Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA

1995: U. S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, USA

1980-1984: Military Land Forces College Vyškov, Command and Engineering         

(Ing.)

1976-1980: Military High School, Opav

Professional and public activities

2022-2024: Czech Defence Envoy to the People's Republic of China, Mongolia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
2019-2022: 1st Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Army of the Czech Republic
2013-2018: director of the Support Section of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic

2013-2015: director of the Logistics Agency of the Czech Armed Forces
2010-2013: Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of NATO Joint Force Training Centre, Bydgoszcz, Poland

2007-2010: commander of the Training Command and Military Academy Vyškov

2005-2006: deputy chief of staff, Support Forces Command, Stará Boleslav

2003-2005: chief of staff, Training and Doctrine Command Vyškov
2001-2002: Liaison Officer, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Ft. Monroe, USA
1997-2003: held a position at the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces in the field of mobilisation and defence planning, NATO integration and foreign activities
1984-1995: held command positions at the Military University of Land Forces, Vyškov