THE ADMIRAL'S APRIL 2025 COMMENTARY AND MEDIA APPEARANCES
Hegseth’s Pentagon Is a Mess. Here’s How to Fix It
ADM Stav’s Bloomberg OPED
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April 30, 2025
Discussing Loss of USN Jet in the Red Sea, Putin’s Motives for “Ceasefire” Move and Impact of Tariffs on International Alliances
April 29, 2025
With John Berman on CNN Discussing Putin Plans for a 3-Day Ceasefire in May
April 28, 2025
On CNN with Boris Sanchez. Is Russia Disrespecting President Trump?
April 24, 2025
April 23, 2025
On the Ross Kaminsky Show KOA Radio
April 23, 2025
Discussing Pentagon Disarray and the Situation Between Russia and Ukraine on CNN News Central with John Berman
April 23, 2025
My Old Warship Is Caught Up in the Battle Over DEI
ADM Stav’s Bloomberg OPED
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April 22, 2025
ADM Stav on CNN with Boris Sanchez Discussing “Signalgate 2.0”
April 21, 2025
April 18, 2025
Five Signs That the US and China Will Go to War
ADM Stav’s Bloomberg Opinion OPED
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April 16, 2025
Discussing Russia/Ukraine on CNN International
April 15, 2025
On CNN Discussing U.S. Relations with China, Russia, Iran and More
April 12, 2025
Are We Still the Leader of the Free World?
ADM Stav on the Politics War Room Podcast with Al Hunt and James Carville
April 10, 2025
ADM Stav’s Discussion with The Cipher Brief’s Suzanne Kelly
April 8, 2025
On CNN Discussing National Security Implications of Tariffs:
Sailing Into Dangerous Waters
April 6, 2025
Gabbard Is Wrong: Climate Change Is a National Security Threat
Adm Stav’s Bloomberg Opinion OPED
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April 3, 2025
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BELOW ARE SOME OF THE ADMIRAL’S MOST MEMORABLE PUBLIC COMMENTARIES

Very few Americans could find tiny Montenegro on a map. Fewer still could offer a cogent description of the differences between Slovenia and Slovakia.
Most can’t name the three Baltic countries. Yet thanks to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s charter, which was signed 70 years ago in Washington, every American is bound by law to defend with blood and treasure each of those nations, and 22 others to boot.

While India and Pakistan seem to have stopped bombing one another, the causes behind the cross-border tensions aren’t going away any time soon. The two nations are nuclear-armed; have large conventional armed forces; have had four serious wars since they became independent in 1947; and have enormous cultural and religious antipathy. This is a prescription for a disaster, and yet the confrontation is flying below the international radar – well below North Korea, Brexit, China-U.S. trade confrontations, Iran and even the “yellow vests” of France. A full-blown war in the valleys and mountains of Kashmir is a very real possibility.

I spent much of my early adult life on American warships around the world defending democracy against one of its great 20th century enemies: global communism. The Cold War represented a rare kind of conflict in the span of human civilization, one not between states or princes, but between ideologies. On one side was centralized authoritarian control; on the other, democratic government of, by and for the people.

Adam: Thanks again for taking the time to share your thoughts on leadership. First things first, though, I am sure readers would love to learn more about you. What is something about you that would surprise people?
Adm. Stavridis: I am a very good cook, because I grew up around terrific cooks. My grandfather came here from Greece as a refugee in the early part of the 20th century and – like many Greek-Americans, immortalized in My Big Fat Greek Wedding – opened a restaurant, the Downtown Diner in Allentown, Pennsylvania. So cooking is in my blood and I love make big Mediterranean dinners – risotto, cassoulet, tagine, paella, roast lamb, anything from the Mediterranean and the Levant.
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Adm. Stavridis: President Trump’s prediction ISIS territory will fall within days is ‘a huge mistake’
