SIZABLE IRAN STRIKE ON ISRAEL EXPECTED: WHAT IS THE PRESENCE OF THE US FLEET? 1/4: To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision by Admiral James Stavridis USN (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 November 2024
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At the heart of Admiral James Stavridis’s training as a naval officer was the preparation to lead sailors in combat, to face the decisive moment in battle whenever it might arise. In To Risk it All, he offers up nine of the most useful and enthralling stories from the US Navy’s nearly 250-year history, and draws from them a set of insights that we can all put to use when confronted with fateful choices.
Conflict. Crisis. Risk. These words have a distinct meaning in a military context that we hope will never apply identically in our own lives. But at the same time, as Admiral Stavridis shows with great clarity, many lessons are universal.
To Risk it All is filled with thrilling and heroic exploits, but it is anything but a shallow exercise in myth burnishing. Every leader in this book has real flaws, as all humans do, and the stories of failure, or at least the decisions that have been defined as such, are as crucial as the stories of success. In the end, when this master class is concluded, we will be better armed for hard decisions both expected and not.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.2 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:10.8 | Admiral Jim Stavridis, the United States Navy retired. |
| 0:14.6 | His new book is very helpful to understand the history of the Navy |
| 0:18.3 | and the way the Navy educates its future leadership. |
| 0:22.5 | The book is To Risk It All, Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision. |
| 0:28.1 | Jim has lessons learned, and I mean to speak to each of them with the examples he provides in his book, |
| 0:35.4 | the telling of these lives at sea and on shore. |
| 0:39.8 | We begin with lesson learned about how to be a leader in the U.S. Navy. |
| 0:45.9 | Gather all intelligence you can find, like a sponge. |
| 0:50.9 | The examples I'm most attracted to in the book are George Dewey, who led the charge into Manila Bay. |
| 1:00.2 | And an example of gathering intelligence but not being able to follow through because of incomplete communications. |
| 1:08.1 | That would be Bill Halsey in 1944 in the Battle of Lady Gulf. Admiral, |
| 1:13.7 | congratulations. Good evening. George Dewey is easy to like, especially when you tell us he was a rascal most |
| 1:20.2 | of his life. How does he exemplify gathering intelligence before you contact the enemy? Good evening to you. Good evening, sir. |
| 1:29.8 | And thanks for having me on to talk about this new book, to risk it all. And let's start with |
| 1:35.7 | George Dewey. He leads the U.S. Navy through victory in the Spanish-American War 120 years ago. |
| 1:44.0 | So in 1898, he has a challenge. |
| 1:46.8 | He has a problem. |
| 1:48.1 | He needs to conquer the Spanish fleet in vast Manila Bay. |
| 1:53.6 | But in 1898, there isn't much intelligence available. |
| 1:57.6 | We don't have satellites. |
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