Stanley McChrystal

“Setting oneself on a predetermined course in unknown waters is the perfect way to sail straight into an iceberg.”

— Stanley McChrystal

“Our actions, particularly interventions, can upset regions, nations, cultures, economies, and peoples, however virtuous our purpose. We must ensure that the cure…

— Stanley McChrystal

“From the first, I realized that being organized was the key to real compassion. There was a natural tendency for Annie, me,…

— Stanley McChrystal

“the recently minted military acronym VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). They”

— Stanley McChrystal

“As the demands of the positions differed, and as I grew in age and experience, I found that I had changed as…

— Stanley McChrystal

“These and similar moments from our military’s past were on my mind as the enemy in Iraq appeared ever more sinister. I…

— Stanley McChrystal

“In no class of warfare,” C. E. Callwell had written a hundred years earlier, about the “small wars” of the nineteenth century,…

— Stanley McChrystal

“being effective in today’s world is less a question of optimizing for a known (and relatively stable) set of variables than responsiveness…

— Stanley McChrystal