Israel Quotes by Stanley A. McChrystal

8 Israel quotes by Stanley A. McChrystal

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Stanley A. McChrystal’s eight remarks on Israel present a military‑strategic perspective in a compact format. The brief collection delivers his key insights, making it a useful primer for those interested in his analysis.

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I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in…

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What scares me about drone strikes is how they are perceived around the world. The resentment created by American use of unmanned…

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Trust is an amazing commodity. The Afghan people often talk to me about having to develop trust in America, because they believe…

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One of the big takeaways from Iraq was that you have to not lose confidence in what you are doing. We were…

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We could do good things in Afghanistan for the next 100 years and fail.

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Defeat the Taliban. Secure the population.

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When I arrived in the summer of 2009 to command the war in Afghanistan, I entered an effort that was failing. Many…

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We want to make the insurgents come to us. Make them be the aggressors. What I want to do is get on…

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I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

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My dad was always the soldier I wanted to be.

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In our society, I see public media as a lever. It pushes people by elevating them and their sights. It brings them into more…

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America needs a restart. It has long devoted its energies to solving its many big problems - unequal opportunity, crumbling infrastructure, lagging education, inadequate…

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When you go through some controversy and you see your face on the news in a negative way for 48 hours... you doubt yourself.…

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If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or you had…

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I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

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There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the…

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Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and…

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How we present ourselves matters a lot, and that's every American, not just at the senior levels.

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I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and…

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What I'm trying to do is teach people how to actually get individuals in organizations to do the kinds of things to make a…

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By nature, I tended to trust people and was typically open and transparent... But such transparency would go astray when others saw us out…

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