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Mar 27, 2017 key takeaways from team of teams by general stanley mcchrystal. I took an afghan war vet to brad pitts bad, antimilitary. In may 2017, netflix released the film war machine in which brad pitt plays a thinly veiled version of mcchrystal named mcmahon. Stanley mcchrystal leadership in uncertain times general ret stan mcchrystal is the founder and ceo of mcchrystal group. It was february 2010, and after months establishing a relationship, pakistans chief of army staff, ashfaq parvez kayani, and one of us, stan mcchrystal, were having the kind of conversation senior military commanders are supposed to have, discussing the. Mcchrystal, including commentary and archival articles published in the new york times. General mcchrystal is a legendary warrior with a fine eye for enduring lessons about leadership, courage, and consequence.
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