A Conversation with Gen. Randy George, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

As the largest war in Europe since World War II rages and as China rises, the U.S. Army is preparing for an evermore dangerous world with an ambitious vision. To learn more about this vision, Ryan paid a visit to Gen. Randy George, who has been serving as the Army's chief of staff since last September. They tackled a range of topics, from warfighting and professionalism in the Army, to modernizing training and acquisitions, and to lessons learned versus lessons identified. Gen. George reveals his thoughts on how the Army is learning from the war in Ukraine. And they also discussed a new Army initiative called "transforming in contact."

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0:00.0	You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs.
0:14.0	My name is Ryan Evans, I'm the founder of War in the Rocks, and in this episode I spoke with General
0:18.1	Randy George, the 41st Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.
0:21.8	I think you're going to enjoy this one.
0:24.4	So why did you join the Army? Well I joined the Army in 1982 right out of high school.
0:30.3	I think my big reason was I wanted to get money to go to college and my parents
0:36.5	really couldn't help me out much with that my dad was a farmer and so I had a Korean War vet that I worked for after school and he suggested that I go on the
0:48.5	Army for a couple of years. He thought it would be good for me And so that was my plan.
0:54.4	I was going to come in for four years
0:56.4	and here I am still doing it.
0:58.3	You've laid out a pretty ambitious vision
1:00.2	on lots of different things.
1:02.1	And we'll get to that in a minute but before we do I'd like to
1:06.1	talk about who are your favorite bosses in the Army before you became a general officer.
1:11.7	I've had a bunch of great bosses.
1:14.0	I'll start with kind of your first question.
1:17.0	When I first came in the army, I remember my very first platoon sergeant,
1:22.0	Sergeant Cortez, who, you know, basically owned me from the time
1:26.1	I got up until I went, you know, went to bed. But he took an interest in me and, you know,
1:32.1	and what I was doing, making me a better soldier a better person he was actually
1:36.4	the one that suggested that I he took me actually to a West Point prep school briefing and application process and told me that I should
1:46.0	you know consider doing it so obviously a lot of fond memories of him I had a great
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