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" You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications. "

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" In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls. "

James G. Stavridis

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" All of my relatives on both sides of my family are from Allentown. "

" Getting enough sleep makes us better family members, friends, lovers, drivers, writers, cooks, and pretty much everything else that is of importance in our lives. "

" In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies. "

" I knew early I wanted to follow my father into the military. He did a full 30-year career and retired as a full colonel in the Marines after graduating from Allentown H.S. and later from Cornell University. "

James G. Stavridis

Father

Military

" The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today. "

" Front-line officials, including DEA agents, border patrol and other homeland-security professionals, should remind Mr. Trump how important Mexico's assistance is in achieving his national-security goals. "

" The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them. "

" What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook. "

" After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military. "

" Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires. "

" Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read. "

" In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls. "

" I don't think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power - it is succeeding. "

" Controlling President Trump seems incredibly difficult. "

" We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas. "

" I tend to gravitate toward reporters who cover all aspects of the story: from personal aspects to the big picture that answer the 'so what' of a story. "

" I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites. "

James G. Stavridis

Consumer

Facebook

" Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together. "

" Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide. "

" I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely. "

" It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States. "

" During the early 1990s, Mexico's domestic political sensitivities meant that it rarely extradited people who had committed crimes in the U.S. After NAFTA, extradition numbers began to increase until they surpassed 100 a year in the late 2000s. "

" When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email. "

James G. Stavridis

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