THE ADMIRAL'S COMMENTARY AND MEDIA APPEARANCES DURING MARCH 2022
Putin is strategically failing
Admiral Stavridis on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” with Jeremy Bash
March 31 , 2022
How will we know if Russia is cheating?
Admiral Stavridis explains on
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”
March 30 , 2022
Did the US overestimate Russian military capability?
On MSNBC’s “Way Too Early”
March 30 , 2022
Russia has clearly failed at “Plan A”
On CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith”
March 28 , 2022
A Speech About NATO’s “Sacred Obligation”
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”
March 28 , 2022
The Ukrainians know what they need. Give them the tools.
On MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports
with former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
March 25 , 2022
Putin Isn’t Crazy Enough to Use Nukes.
Or Is He?
Admiral Stavridis’ OPED in Bloomberg Opinion
March 24 , 2022
On NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
March 23 , 2022
On MSNBC’s The Reid Out
March 23 , 2022
Putin Using Hypersonic Missiles to Send a Message to the West
On NBC News Now “Top Story” with Tom Llamas
March 21 , 2022
Breaking Down “No Fly Zones”
On MSNBC’s 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle
March 18 , 2022
Ukraine to Receive Key Air Defense System
With Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s “The Situation Room”
March 16 , 2022
Putting Pressure on Putin
On CNN’s “New Day”
March 15 , 2022
How is the War In Ukraine Going?
On the Hugh Hewitt Show – Salem Radio Network
March 15 , 2022
Russia’s Military Has Become a “Terrorist Force”
With Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports”
March 14 , 2022
“Sometimes Plan B is work harder on Plan A”
On NBC’s “Meet the Press”
March 13 , 2022
On the Megyn Kelly Show – Sirius XM Radio
March 10, 2022
On CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith”
March 9, 2022
On Bloomberg’s “Surveillance”
March 9, 2022
On MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports
March 8, 2022
The U.S. Can Turn Europe Into Putin’s Nightmare
Admiral Stavridis’ OPED In Bloomberg Opinion
March 7, 2022
On NBC’s Meet the Press
March 6, 2022
On MSNBC’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
March 6, 2022
With Nicolle Wallace
on MSNBC’s Deadline White House
March 4, 2022
On the Ross Kaminsky Show, KOA Radio Denver
March 3, 2022
“Don’t bet against us”
Hub Dialogue conversation, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Recorded February 24, Posted March 2, 2022
Russian Invasion of Ukraine: How It Is Going and What Is Next
On the Hugh Hewitt Show – Salem Radio Network
March 1, 2022
LINKS TO PAST COMMENTARY AND MEDIA APPEARANCES
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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.