General Stanley McChrystal Address - Press Coverage

04 Feb 2010 - - BBC News - Afghan security better, says US commander McChrystal Gen McChrystal warned there was only limited time to turn around the "deteriorating" situation in Afghanistan, during a speech last October to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He has warned that the next 18 months could prove crucial to turning around more than eight years of international efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.
02 Dec 2009 - - Times - Man with a plan must deliver for America: General Stanley McChrystal Two months ago he came to London to give a speech that he prefaced with the line: “If my plan fails, as most of mine do, I will be happy to field any questions.”
12 Oct 2009 - - Foreign Policy - The Safe Haven Myth At the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London earlier this month, Gen. Stanley McChrystal admonished an audience of listeners to question "generally accepted, 'bumper sticker' truths" about Afghanistan. As U.S. President Barack Obama and his advisors decide on the best way to proceed with the war, they might want to reconsider one in particular: safe havens.
10 Oct 2009 - - Newsweek - Let Generals Speak Their Minds In politics and in war, truth can be elusive; often all we can do is muddle through, trying to make the best of things. McChrystal knows better than anyone the complexities of what he faces, and if you read the whole speech he delivered in London you see that he was at pains to make the difficulties at hand as clear as possible.
07 Oct 2009 - - Wall St Journal - Obama and the General Then Gen. McChrystal gave a speech last Thursday before the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London. It was scheduled and approved by the Pentagon weeks before the Afghan political jitters seized official Washington. The General was hardly incendiary.
07 Oct 2009 - - Washington Post - A General Within Bounds Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has come under fire for making public comments about the war. While answering questions after an Oct. 1 speech -- in which he avoided taking sides in the policy debate -- McChrystal challenged a popular alternative to the approach that President Obama sent him to Afghanistan to pursue. An op-ed on this page Saturday argued that a battlefield commander should not get ahead of his president in public. Next, national security adviser James L. Jones fa
07 Oct 2009 - - Times - President Obama tries to heal rifts over war strategy in Afghanistan In that speech, General Stanley McChrystal had said that significantly more troops were needed in Afghanistan to execute the counter-insurgency strategy launched by Mr Obama in March. He dismissed the narrower, counter-terrorism approach now being advocated internally by officials such as Vice-President Joe Biden as “short-sighted”.
06 Oct 2009 - - Indpendent - Obama defence chief's rebuke on Afghan war "I think that [General] McChrystal and the others in the chain of command will present the President with not just one option ... but a range of options that the President can consider. Troops are a portion of the answer but not the total answer." In his speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London last week, General McChrystal acknowledged that security in Afghanistan was not improving. "We need to reverse the current trends, and time does matter," he said. "Waiting does not pro

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