Stanley McChrystal - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Stanley McChrystal Index / People Transcripts Jeh Johnson ...right after the Afghanistan review, the [Stanley] McChrystal episode in the middle of 2010, yo... Macon Phillips ...that job was Team of Teams. That's the Stanley McChrystal book about how JSOC [Joint Specia... David Axelrod ...and have a strategy for Afghanistan. Stan McChrystal , who had been brought in to be th... ...to the point where he irritated some of McChrystal 's people. They were caught by ... ...and the administration. This ended in McChrystal leaving Afghanistan, which is a whol... Michèle Flournoy ...of the tension came from the fact that General McChrystal 's report leaked before it went to th... Robert Gates ...approval to relieve him and recommended Stan McChrystal to take his place. Then I made what i... ...had approved at the end of March? And McChrystal goes off to do his assessment. I... ...me, and he's just come back from seeing McChrystal . And he tells me he thinks McChrysta... ...McChrystal. And he tells me he thinks McChrystal is going to ask for forty thousand mor... ...Mullen, I decided I needed to talk to McChrystal myself. So I flew to Belgium at th... ...was on the second of August. And it was McChrystal and Mullen. Petraeus was there. Admira... ...And several other four-stars. And McChrystal laid out this strategy. First of all... ...president on what I had learned from McChrystal . He was, as I had expected... ...him—even though I had gotten a draft of McChrystal 's report and told him about it o... ...Petraeus had all endorsed it, just as McChrystal had written it. So again, thi... ...a corner, that he had to approve what McChrystal had recommended, because that's wha... ...was saying, “You've got to do what McChrystal wants. You can't do anything else... ...saying, “You've got to do what McChrystal says.” So then we have our firs... ...he says, “You've got to do what McChrystal says. You've got to go for the fort... ...judgment is, we've got to do what McChrystal says. And anything less than that won'... ...article. He's gotten a leaked copy of McChrystal 's assessment, and he publishes that... ...there's a 60 Minutes program in which McChrystal is interviewed. Now, the irony is... ...is interviewed. Now, the irony is, McChrystal was interviewed for the show a coupl... ...then the last straw. On October first, McChrystal gives a speech in London. There'... ...position, that it was probably one of McChrystal 's staff that had leaked th... ...and that the difference between what McChrystal felt he needed and that thirty thousan... ...them. You write extensively about Stan McChrystal 's resignation in 2010. I'm not goin... ...the president that he had to fire McChrystal , partly because McChrystal's allege... ...had to fire McChrystal, partly because McChrystal 's alleged comments—because it late... ...me from the very beginning was McChrystal 's unwillingness to defend himself, an... ...not pushed for anything to happen to McChrystal . Well, Obama later told me that th... ...he had to take this action against McChrystal . Thank you, by the way. That was a... Show more... Michael Mullen ...there's a lot of emphasis placed on General McChrystal 's initial assessments of what h... ...memories do you have of talking with Stan McChrystal during that year, or other militar... ...overly important here, about how did McChrystal get there. I had seen McChrystal in th... ...did McChrystal get there. I had seen McChrystal in the Middle East when I was head o... ...the right guy in Afghanistan, we picked McChrystal . I recommended him to Gates. He wa... ...fighting, when you have somebody like McChrystal versus McKiernan. Then, it turn... ...He just wasn't the right match. So then McChrystal goes in, and then what I told Stan is... ...dramatically. That then teed up—then, McChrystal 's report broke. Now, it's bein... ...knew [William H.] McRaven well. I knew McChrystal well. I'm a personal-relationship kin... Show more... Anne Patterson ...between Ambassador Eikenberry and General McChrystal and evolved from there. I hate to sa... Ryan Crocker ...There's the Afghanistan review in 2009, Stanley [A.] McChrystal 's departure in 2010, Richard [C.... Ash Carter ...talking to Dave Petraeus and talking to Stan McChrystal , and talking to Mike Flynn about wha... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Financial Crisis and the Economy Financial Crisis and the Economy go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Native America Native America