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"From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision making under pressure through the stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle drawn from the history of the United States Navy, with outcomes both glorious and notorious 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 when it arises and make the best decision possible given the situation at hand. Over the course of his illustrious career he returned again and again to a relatively small number of legendary cases in point, holding them to the light repeatedly to see what lessons they yielded. Now, 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 can be of use to all of us when confronted with fateful choices. Conflict. Crisis. Risk. These are words that have a meaning in a military context that we hope will never apply in quite the same way in our own lives. At the same time, as To Risk it All shows with great clarity, many lessons are universal. The first is simply understanding whether you're really in an acute short-terms crisis or are confusing it with a more long-term challenge that can't and shouldn't be met with a short-term fix. Second, while fortune favors the bold, it favors the prepared even more. A huge part of preparation is learning how to observe a situation clearly on its own terms first, avoiding biases and misinformation, before applying the lens of your values and analysis. Easier said than done, but there is a learning path. With the right preparation, you can force time to slow down, and draw on the best of yourself, and leave the rest out of it. To Risk it All is filled with heroic exploits, thrillingly told, but it is anything but a shallow exercise in myth burnishing. Every leader in this book has real flaws, as all humans do, and Admiral Stavridis takes the analysis of their flaws as seriously as he does their strengths. The stories of failure, or at least decisions that have often been defined as such, are as crucial to the book as the stories of success. In the end, when this master class is dismissed, we can feel lucky for the hard situations we will never have to face, and better armed for the hard decisions we surely will, whether we expect them or not"--

"This is a handbook for all deck and combat information center watch officers of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard afloat, in the air, under the sea, and ashore. Originally written more than one hundred years ago, and last revised in 2007, the book provides officers with guidance on the watch in general, communications, shiphandling, standard commands, safety, honors and ceremonies, engineering, and rules of the road"--

The power of persuasion themistocles -- A sailor of the Middle Kingdom Zheng He -- A Pirate and a Patriot Sir Francis Drake -- The Band of Brothers Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Horatio Nelson -- The influencer Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan -- Rum, buggery, and the lash Admiral Lord John Arbuthnot Fisher -- The Admiral's Admiral Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz -- The Master of Angel Admiral Hyman Rickover -- The angel of change Admiral Elmo R. "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. -- Don't Go Near the Water Rear Admiral Grace Hopper -- Resilience and the Modern Admiral.

The sea is one. --The Pacific : mother of all the oceans. --The Atlantic Ocean : the cradle of colonization. --The Indian Ocean : the future sea. --The Mediterranean : where war at sea began. --The South China Sea : a likely zone of conflict. --The Caribbean : stalled in the past. --The Arctic Ocean : promise and peril. --The outlaw sea : oceans as crime scenes. --America and the oceans : a naval strategy for the twenty-first century.

Despite demonstrated prowess in the handling of ships and sailors, five years after receiving his commission, Jim Stavridis was planning on getting out of the Navy and going to law school. His assignments officer, a young lieutenant commander by the name of Mike Mullen (who would go on to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) noticed something special in Stavridis, however, and convinced him to stay on active duty by dangling the prospect of Uncle Sam sending him to graduate school. Going ashore for a few years, Stavridis earned his MALD and PhD in international relations from the Fletcher Sch

If you intend to own only a single volume on the crucial question of civil-military relations in the United States, choose this book. It is a comprehensive (indeed, exhaustive) review of the literature and commentary surrounding this timely debate. (A synthesis appears as the lead article in this issue.) It addresses what former secretary of defense William Cohen described as a "chasm" in American society. The editors have assembled a wide variety of commentators who examine two fundamental questions: Are the American armed forces and the civilian sector drifting apart as the result of a lack of shared values and neartotal ignorance by the civilians of the military role? If so, what are the potential consequences for U.S. society?

It is frighteningly easy to make a list of today's global challenges: pandemics like Ebola; the rise of the Islamic State and the ongoing war between Sunni and Shi'a factions within Islam, with its huge spillover effects in the Middle East; deep, unresolved tension in east Asia, notably between China and Japan and nuclear-armed North Korea; the looming threat of state-sponsored and criminal cyber attack; and Russian intransigence in Ukraine and along its borders. A growing recognition of global inequality, easily viewable through social media, has also led to ongoing unrest. The potential for a nuclear-armed Iran, a tottering economy in Europe, a half-dozen virulent insurgencies around the world, border disputes, arms and narcotics trade, water shortages, and many other vexing issues will continue to challenge US policymakers. This article presents some hopeful examples of progress that may translate into opportunities in this turbulent and dangerous world. Adapted from the source document.