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The Australian
April 22, 2018
In The Operators, a great book on the war in Afghanistan, the American journalist Michael Hastings is scathing of reporters who spend their lives praising generals and socialising with them. Hastings exposed the arrogance and childish antics of the then head of US operations in Afghanistan, StanleyÃâà...
The Denver Post
April 20, 2018
The list of luminaries who have spoken at company leadership weekends includes hockey great Wayne Gretzky, retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal and basketball superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Employees praise the company's willingness to provide them with the tools they need to succeedÃâà...
Japan Today
April 14, 2018
General Joseph F. Dunford referenced “the inevitability of our success” in 2013. His predecessor, General John Allen, declared, “We are winning. We are winning.” In 2011, General David Petraeus said that U.S. forces had “reversed the momentum of the Taliban.” General Stanley A. McChrystal, in 2010,Ãâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 13, 2018
General Joseph F. Dunford referenced “the inevitability of our success” in 2013. His predecessor, General John Allen, declared, “We are winning. We are winning.” In 2011, General David Petraeus said that US forces had “reversed the momentum of the Taliban.” General Stanley A. McChrystal, in 2010,Ãâà...
Idaho State Journal
April 5, 2018
Gen. Stanley McChrystal has written a new book ("Team of Teams: New Rules for Engagement for a Complex World") to discuss some of the challenges of being a leader in the rapidly changing world we find ourselves in today. One of Gen. McChrystal's principles, shared by Tod Bolsinger at a recentÃâà...
POLITICO.eu
March 23, 2018
It's a skill Mattis learned partly from watching his former colleague, then-Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, lose his job eight years ago after mocking President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in what he thought were off-the-record remarks to a Rolling Stone reporter. Before that, Mattis had hisÃâà...
Dothan Eagle
March 23, 2018
Scott McChrystal, former senior chaplain at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, spoke and offered lessons on how prayer can help in times ... and according to William G. Kidd, Fort Rucker deputy to the commanding general, the prayers are a way to bring people together in something manyÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
March 23, 2018
It's a skill Mattis learned partly from watching his former colleague, then-Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, lose his job eight years ago after mocking President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in what he thought were off-the-record remarks to a Rolling Stone reporter. Before that, Mattis had hisÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 22, 2018
Tatham, along with McChrystal and Andrew Mackay, a British general who served with McChrystal in Afghanistan, is the author of a 2011 book, .... Force, that formally shut down four years ago and which handled U.S., British and other NATO operations there from 2009 until 2014, including during Gen.
Caledonian Record
March 17, 2018
He reports that when Gen. Stanley McChrystal went to Afghanistan in May 2002, “A senior Army officer in Washington told him, 'Don't build [Bondsteels],' referring to the NATO base in [Kosovo] that Rumsfeld saw as a symbol of peacekeeping mission creep. The officer warned McChrystal against 'anythingÃâà...
The Star Beacon
March 16, 2018
He reports when Gen. Stanley McChrystal went to Afghanistan in May 2002, “A senior Army officer in Washington told him, 'Don't build [Bondsteels],' referring to the NATO base in [Kosovo] that Rumsfeld saw as a symbol of peacekeeping mission creep. The officer warned McChrystal against 'anything hereÃâà...
Times-Enterprise
March 14, 2018
He reports that when Gen. Stanley McChrystal went to Afghanistan in May 2002, “A senior Army officer in Washington told him, 'Don't build [Bondsteels],' referring to the NATO base in [Kosovo] that Rumsfeld saw as a symbol of peacekeeping mission creep. The officer warned McChrystal against 'anythingÃâà...
Cape May County Herald
March 13, 2018
My wife, Patricia, and I attended an informative lecture by four-star General Stanley McChrystal at Princeton University Feb. 28. He was described by ... Another principle McChrystal stresses is that we must always raise the bar, but not so high that the person doesn't believe it can be attained. ConstructiveÃâà...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
March 12, 2018
He reports, when Gen. Stanley McChrystal went to Afghanistan in May 2002, “A senior Army officer in Washington told him, 'Don't build [Bondsteels],' referring to the NATO base in [Kosovo] that Rumsfeld saw as a symbol of peacekeeping mission creep. The officer warned McChrystal against 'anything hereÃâà...
Ledger Independent
March 10, 2018
He reports when Gen. Stanley McChrystal went to Afghanistan in May 2002, "A senior Army officer in Washington told him, 'Don't build [Bondsteels],' referring to the NATO base in [Kosovo] that Rumsfeld saw as a symbol of peacekeeping mission creep. The officer warned McChrystal against 'anything hereÃâà...
HuffPost
March 9, 2018
According to the memo, Broidy told Trump that the team behind the Muslim army plan was led by McChrystal, a retired Army general who had previously commanded U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan. That appeared to boost the credibility of the proposal in the president's eyes: Trump interruptedÃâà...
smallwarsjournal
March 6, 2018
By the conclusion of 2014, the Sunni terrorist organization known as Daesh had established a strong foothold in Iraq, Syria and several countries on the periphery of the Middle East in an attempt to establish an “Islamic State,” or caliphate, to practice their extremist religious views and enforce sharia law.
The Atlantic
March 5, 2018
Retired Army General Stan McChrystal, the patron saint of American special operations, and a man who knows something about small arms, lamented in The New York Times a year ago that “some of our politicians and the people who back them seem to promote a culture of gun ownership that does notÃâà...
Yale News
February 26, 2018
Speaking to former Secretary of State John Kerry at Yale's Greenberg Conference Center, Gen. (retired) Stanley McChrystal emphasized the importance of effective diplomacy and candid dialogue between leaders in global conflict resolution. In a wide-ranging discussion, Kerry and McChrystal reviewedÃâà...
Yale Daily News (blog)
February 25, 2018
Former Secretary of State John Kerry '66 and retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal have grappled with the issue of terrorism throughout their professional lives. And on Friday, the two men discussed counterterrorism efforts and their views on the current world order at an event hosted by the JacksonÃâà...
Vox
February 22, 2018
Some of the nation's most prominent veterans have openly called for changes to gun laws for years. Here are a few examples: In 2013, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal — who commanded America's elite troops worldwide as well as troops in Afghanistan — came out in support of gun control. “I think seriousÃâà...
TSNN Trade Show News
February 8, 2018
Keynote speaker Gen. Stanley McChrystal - visionary, former United States Army general and veteran of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan – inspired attendees to think outside the box when applying leadership in their business. During the Closing Main Stage, social innovator and philanthropist BillÃâà...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
February 5, 2018
A coterie of officers led by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Gen. David Petraeus and Admiral Mike Mullen believed that a massive troop deployment could turn around the situation in the conflict that began in 2001. Thompson's Marine unit was sent to build an isolated firebase in the Afghan province. "We slept in aÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 17, 2017
In the new issue of Prism magazine, General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army (Ret.) offers two warnings. Both are kind of hair-raising. First, he offers the thought that, “A European war is not unthinkable.” He goes on to explain that, “People who want to believe that a war in Europe is not possible might be inÃâà...
VentureBeat
December 31, 1999
General Stanley McChrystal was responsible for the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. In his book Team of Teams, he talks about the rude awakening he had when he saw how disadvantaged his centralized command was compared to the decentralized networks of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Los Alamos Daily Post
December 31, 1999
Give the Attorney General the authority to deny firearms sales to individuals who appear on the No Fly List or the Selectee List. ... former CIA Directors General Petraeus and General Michael Hayden, along with former special operations commanders General Stanley McChrystal and Admiral Eric Olson.
CNN
December 31, 1999
The situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated to the point where retired US Gen. Stanley McChrystal, writing in Foreign Affairs with Kosh Sadat, said the country "is struggling to survive" and the Taliban's "presence and influence are likely at their highest levels since the group lost power." The conflict hasÃâà...
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