The military's been moving away from command and control for a while now, maybe a fewde ads. There're some businesses out there still running this play book, and i don't think theyre ging to be around another generation if they don't change their play book away. The challenge of military tactics was to get mass, that is, to get enough of your force in fairly concentrated area against the enemy. And so from then on through history, leaders like napoleon, famously. Other in our civil war, were always trying to achieve concentration of mass at a pointe time.
General Stanley McChrystal is a retired four-star general, the former commander of US and International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan, and former commander of Joint Special Operations Command, America’s premier military counter-terrorism force.
General McChrystal is also the founder of the McChrystal Group, a senior fellow at Yale University, and the author of several New York Times bestselling books including Leaders: Myth & Reality and his most recent book Risk: A User’s Guide.
General McChrystal joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss how to assess risk, core qualities of leadership he looks for, propaganda, the conflict in Ukraine and more.
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