“Our actions, particularly interventions, can upset regions, nations, cultures, economies, and peoples, however virtuous our purpose. We must ensure that the cure we offer through intervention is not worse than the disease.” — Stanley McChrystal Copy Share Image
“Setting oneself on a predetermined course in unknown waters is the perfect way to sail straight into an iceberg.” — Stanley McChrystal Copy Share Image
“Our actions, particularly interventions, can upset regions, nations, cultures, economies, and peoples, however virtuous our purpose. We must ensure that the cure we offer… — Stanley McChrystal Copy Share Image
“From the first, I realized that being organized was the key to real compassion. There was a natural tendency for Annie, me, and other… — Stanley McChrystal Copy Share Image
“the recently minted military acronym VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). They” — Stanley McChrystal Copy Share Image
“As the demands of the positions differed, and as I grew in age and experience, I found that I had changed as a leader.… — Stanley McChrystal Copy Share Image
“These and similar moments from our military’s past were on my mind as the enemy in Iraq appeared ever more sinister. I sought to… — Stanley McChrystal Copy Share Image
“In no class of warfare,” C. E. Callwell had written a hundred years earlier, about the “small wars” of the nineteenth century, “is a… — Stanley McChrystal Copy Share Image
“being effective in today’s world is less a question of optimizing for a known (and relatively stable) set of variables than responsiveness to a… — Stanley McChrystal Copy Share Image
