Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead
Stanley McChrystal: Lyt, lær … og led så
General Stanley McChrystal is the former commander of U.S. and International forces in Afghanistan. A four-star general, he is credited for creating a revolution in warfare that fuses intelligence and operations. Full bio
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som så mange andre jeg havde lavet
og en kammerat hjælper en.
og så tager man en sin tunge rygsæk på.
ens stemme også ryger et par oktaver op.
med en række af mennesker,
udspringsledere at give en kommandoer.
for at vise at man ikke er bange.
og man spænder sin statiske linje fast.
og så åbner de døren.
man låser sig i en fast kropsposition --
får man ikke en faldskærm --
firer man sin rygsæk ned under sig med en line,
vandmelon ud af et vindue på tredje sal.
havde brækket noget jeg havde brug for.
og de ville følge ledere.
havde alt ændret sig.
nogensinde havde med Lt McChrystal
og de laver det de kalder en "efter kamphandlings vurdering"
kommandosoldater med store knytnæver
udelukkende med et håndtryk.
fra længere nede af rangstigen.
min karriere i Rangerregimentet.
kammerat til at falde i fjendens hænder."
uanset hvad det kommer til at koste mig,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Stanley McChrystal - Military leaderGeneral Stanley McChrystal is the former commander of U.S. and International forces in Afghanistan. A four-star general, he is credited for creating a revolution in warfare that fuses intelligence and operations.
Why you should listen
With a remarkable record of achievement, General Stanley McChrystal has been praised for creating a revolution in warfare that fused intelligence and operations. A four-star general, he is the former commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan and the former leader of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees the military’s most sensitive forces. McChrystal’s leadership of JSOC is credited with the December 2003 capture of Saddam Hussein and the June 2006 location and killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. McChrystal, a former Green Beret, is known for his candor.
After McChrystal graduated from West Point, he was commissioned as an infantry officer, and spent much of his career commanding special operations and airborne infantry units. During the Persian Gulf War, McChrystal served in a Joint Special Operations Task Force and later commanded the 75th Ranger Regiment. He completed year-long fellowships at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997 and in 2000 at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2002, he was appointed chief of staff of military operations in Afghanistan. Two years later, McChrystal was selected to deliver nationally televised Pentagon briefings about military operations in Iraq. From 2003 to 2008, McChrystal commanded JSOC and was responsible for leading the nation’s deployed military counter-terrorism efforts around the globe. He assumed command of all International Forces in Afghanistan in June 2009. President Obama’s order for an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan was based on McChrystal’s assessment of the war there. McChrystal retired from the military in August 2010.
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