From Baird Maritime
Stavridis is a prolific and very good writer. Indeed, some of his perhaps too honest earlier writings got him into serious trouble with higher authority.
Like some of his earlier books, this book has a lot of the command manual in it. His "Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command", is a classic of the genre which similarly uses extensive personal experience to make his point.
Despite his excessive name dropping and the-over-use of photographs of him enjoying meeting even more famous people, Admiral Stavridis' book is both a very good read and very valuable. His descriptions of the back-stabbing that can occur at almost the very top is revealing. Your reviewer has often thought and said that once you reach "one star level" it is as important to be as good a politician as a warrior.
It is to be hoped that now Stavridis is retired he will have time to write more, even more forthright, books.
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