this is the first event of the rethinking leadership series in partnership with hudson union and we are excited to begin the series of conversations with a remarkable leader general stanley mcchrystal.ys stand up please so we can clap for you. [applause] one of america's greatest warrior is a retired four-star general he's the former commander of the joint special operations committee and former commander of the forces in afghanistan. he is perhaps best known for developing and implementing the counterinsurgency strategy in afghanistan and for creating a comprehensive counterterrorism organization that revolutionized inter- agency coulter. so imagine if he got military agencies to work together what been like.ave his leadership is credited with the capture of saddam hussein and the death of the leader of al qaeda. over his many decades of leadership in the field, he came to realize our models for identifying, educating and evaluating the leaders are woefully and can lead. in the latestt book, leaders in reality h profiles 13 famous leaders from a wide range of fields including margaret

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union would crack six or seven years later. thank you. >> our batting cleanup is my cold iran, he is the senior fellow at the hudson institute.re he specializes in middle eastern security issues. he served as the senior director the national security council and the administration of george w. bush. and he was responsible there for helping to devise and coordinate u.s. strategies on a variety of bitter easton issues in and u.s. efforts to create iran and syria. he's also served in the bush administration as a senior advisor in the state department and deputy assistant secretary of defense of the pentagon. before coming to the hudson institute he was a senior fellow at the brookings institution and he's also taught at nyu princeton and the university of central florida. his latest book ike's gamble is out there and soon to be a major motion picture may be. take away. >> i wish that was the case. thanks jim. i like to start by just putting it the truck policy in the widest possible perspective. there are two ideas out there in the world about how you should be dealing with the iran challenge. for the sake of discussion i'm goin

union would crack six or seven years later. thank you. james: thank you mark. ,and our batting cleanup is michael doran. he is the senior fellow with the hudson institute. where he specializes in middle eastern security issues. he served as senior director of the national security council. -- security council in the administration of george w. bush. and he was responsible there for helping to devise and coordinate u.s. strategies on a variety of middle eastern issues including arab-israeli relations and u.s. efforts to contain iran and syria. he's also served in the bush administration as a senior advisor in the state department and the deputy assistant secretary of defense in the pentagon. before coming to the hudson institute, he was a senior fellow at brookings institution, and he's also taught at nyu, princeton, and the university of central florida. and his latest book "ike's gamble" is out there and soon to be a major motion picture may n= -- maybe. i don't know, but michael, take it away. michael: i wish that was the case. thanks, jim. i like to start by just putting it -- the trump policy in the kind of widest possible perspective. th