James G. Stavridis Quotes
Rested commanders are the best commanders.
Stavridis, James G. "Navy Collisions Show Need for Sleep." Bloomberg Opinion, 2017.
Marshall was then the chief of staff of the army. Ignoring the seniority system which was the tradition of the Army for promotions produced a necessary corps of great young officers. The most dramatic example of this was the promotion of Dwight D. Eisenhower over many men far senior to him for the Supreme Allied Commander. Marshall and FDR were driving forces to put young men in leadership positions.
In his relationship with FDR General Marshall was the Senior Army Officer and Chief of Staff of the Army during WWII. What was amazing about Marshall was how he argued forcefully from his narrower perspective as the leader of the army, but did not resent it when President Roosevelt decided differently citing wider, non-military consideration. Roosevelt had the almost unique ability to make decisions from the big picture perspective and have most of his subordinates with narrower responsibility and perspective accept understandingly.
James George Stavridis is a retired United States Navy admiral, and bestselling author, currently an operating executive with the Carlyle Group and chair of the board of counselors at McLarty Associates. His novel, "2034: A Novel of the Next World War," was co-written with Elliot Ackerman and published in March, 2021. It debuted at #6 on the New York Times bestseller list. In August 2018, he stepped down as the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a graduate school for international affairs. Stavridis serves as the chief international diplomacy and national security analyst for NBC News in New York. He is also chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Naval Institute and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
