Stanley McChrystal
Retired US Army general and author
Stanley McChrystal is a retired four-star US Army general who later became an author and leadership consultant. He wrote Team of Teams.
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American Born 1954 in Fort Leavenworth, United States
About Stanley McChrystal
Stanley McChrystal spent more than 34 years in the US Army and retired as a four-star general in 2010. He commanded the Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008 and served as Director of the Joint Staff. He ended his career in charge of NATO's International Security Assistance Force, as well as the American troops in Afghanistan. After retiring, he joined Yale University as a senior fellow of its Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and he has taught there. He co-founded the McChrystal Group, a consulting firm in Alexandria, Virginia, and remains a partner there. McChrystal wrote the memoir My Share of the Task and the book Team of Teams, both New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Annie.