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The accidental admiral : a sailor takes command at NATO
- Title
- The accidental admiral : a sailor takes command at NATO / Adm. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.).
- Author
- Stavridis, James
- Publication
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 246 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subjects
- United States
- United States > Navy
- Admirals
- Military history
- Armed Forces > Officers
- United States > History, Military > 20th century
- United States > History, Military > 21st century
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization Biography
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Armed Forces > Technological innovations
- Stavridis, James
- United States > Navy > Officers > Biography
- United States > Armed Forces > Technological innovations > Anecdotes
- 1900 - 2099
- Admirals > United States > Biography
- Anecdotes
- Biography
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes.
- Biography.
- Military history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- You want to send me where? -- Two jobs, two countries, one house -- Afghanistan: whistling past the graveyard of empires -- Libya: Qaddafi's last stand -- Syria: through a glass darkly -- The Balkans: where old ghosts die hard -- Israel: the best of times, the worst of times -- Russia: why can't we just get along? -- Leadership challenges and pitfalls: McChrystal, Petraeus, Allen, . . . and me -- Tricks of the trade: how leaders make things happen -- The postman never rings twice: strategic communication -- Requiem for strategic planning? -- Innovation: the father of all necessity -- NATO: quo vadis? -- What keeps me awake at night: convergence -- Going ashore -- Appendix A. Gen. John Kelly's e-mail on the death of his son, Robert -- Appendix B. The North Atlantic Treaty -- Appendix C. The NATO Lisbon Summit declaration -- Appendix D. Reading list.
- Call Number
- IC 14-8199
- ISBN
- 9781612517049 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1612517048 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014017304
- OCLC
- 875239857
- Author
- Stavridis, James, author.
- Title
- The accidental admiral : a sailor takes command at NATO / Adm. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.).
- Publisher
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Stavridis, James. Accidental admiral Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2014] 9781612517827 (DLC) 2014025183
- Research Call Number
- IC 14-8199