After War Room, Heading Ivy League Classroom

[rug]

Stanley A. McChrystal, the retired general, teaching a course at Yale. Lt. Gen. Graeme Lamb of Britain, right, was a guest. (Andrew Sullivan for The New York Times)

By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: May 6, 2012

NEW HAVEN — On a recent evening in a classroom at Yale, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal held forth for two animated hours on the conflicts in Northern Ireland and South Africa, with bits of his own history as the former top commander in Afghanistan thrown in. In earlier classes he covered the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam and, as his students tell it, recounted in mesmerizing detail the events in “The Runaway General,” the Rolling Stone article that cost him his job.

General McChrystal’s seminar on leadership is nearly as hard to get into as Yale itself: this past semester some 200 students applied for a coveted 20 spots.

“The first day I came here, they were expecting a demonstration,” General McChrystal, who is retired from the military, said in an interview after class, shortly before heading out to a New Haven bar for beers with his students. “And I was mad because there were only nine people” protesting his appointment.

Far from reacting with disdain or indifference, the Yale community has largely embraced him — just as the other Ivy League schools have started to open their doors to his peers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/us/retired-military-officers-teaching-at-ivy-league-schools.html

The military-industrial-academic complex.

[KG]

1. piss on McChrystal

[leveymg]

2. Interesting example of "Loyalty, Trust & Relationships" of top US Gen'ls to Presidents.

I guess he knows first-hand about "misreading & underinformation." But, who does the General believe was misread and underinformed?

[CTyankee]

3. I was pretty shocked when I first read about this a while back. But I am

interested in what he has to say. I wish I could attend the lectures, but the only ones I can attend are the large survey courses and I think they are all in undergraduate courses.