“From the first, I realized that being organized was the key to real compassion. There was a natural tendency for Annie, me, and other key leaders to flock to the bedsides of injured paratroopers or spend time with grieving, frightened… — 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 emphasize in my force, and in myself, the necessary discipline to fight enemies whose very tactic… — 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
