Talking ‘Smart Power’ With Admiral Stavridis
07.26.2013 at 04:03am
Talking 'Smart Power' With Admiral Stavridis by Oliver Barrett, US News & World Report.
With one-liners like, "We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas," it is not hard to appreciate why The New York Times labeled recently retired Admiral James Stavridis a "Renaissance admiral." Labels like "innovator" and "thought leader" may be overused, but Stavridis lives up to the hype, nudging the U.S. military not only to be more adaptive and less insular, but also to re-examine its role in international conflict resolution in places like Latin America and Afghanistan…
