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Partnership for the Americas: Western Hemisphere Strategy and U.S. Southern Command Kindle Edition

by Admiral James G. Stavridis (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, reflects on his tenure as Commander of United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The first Admiral to command Southern Command, Admiral Stavridis broke with tradition from day one, discarding the customary military staff model and creating an innovative organization designed not solely to subdue adversaries, but, perhaps more importantly, to build durable and lasting partnerships with friends. As he has said often, "We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; in this part of the world, we need to get better at launching ideas."

From his unique perspective as commander, Stavridis uses his engagingly personal style to describe his vision for the command's role in the Americas, making the most of limited resources to create goodwill and mutual respect, while taking care of the serious business of countering illegal drug trafficking, overcoming a dangerous insurgency in Colombia, and responding to humanitarian crises.

He also devotes chapters to USSOUTHCOM's role in nurturing institutional respect for human rights among the military and security forces of the region, in advancing health security, and in supporting a new regional strategy to counter the increasing challenge of urban and transnational gang violence. Citing the hemisphere's common geography, culture, economy, and history, Stavridis makes a passionate case for a common approach and strategy for defending our "shared home of the Americas" through an international, interagency, and private-public approach, all connected through coherent and effective strategic communication.
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards?)Festering impunity does not democratic change make.Despite Admiral Stavridis' claims about various human rights initiatives taken by U.S. Southern Command, the failure to punish those in senior positions engaged in gross wrongdoing sends exactly the wrong message to U.S. friends and allies in the region. See, for example, "Unpunished U.S. Southern Command role in '09 Honduran military coup" @ Academia.As of this writing, none of those senior officials at Southern Command's William Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, located at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., who engaged in hands-on efforts promoting the illegal Honduran coup have been castigated, while at the same time WPC national security whistleblowers have suffered ongoing reprisal.“Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.” ― Robert F. Kennedy
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    3.0 out of 5 stars Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards ...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards?)

    Festering impunity does not democratic change make.

    Despite Admiral Stavridis' claims about various human rights initiatives taken by U.S. Southern Command, the failure to punish those in senior positions engaged in gross wrongdoing sends exactly the wrong message to U.S. friends and allies in the region. See, for example, "Unpunished U.S. Southern Command role in '09 Honduran military coup" @ Academia.

    As of this writing, none of those senior officials at Southern Command's William Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, located at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., who engaged in hands-on efforts promoting the illegal Honduran coup have been castigated, while at the same time WPC national security whistleblowers have suffered ongoing reprisal.

    “Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.” ― Robert F. Kennedy
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    Martin Edwin Andersen
    3.0 out of 5 stars Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards ...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards?)

    Festering impunity does not democratic change make.

    Despite Admiral Stavridis' claims about various human rights initiatives taken by U.S. Southern Command, the failure to punish those in senior positions engaged in gross wrongdoing sends exactly the wrong message to U.S. friends and allies in the region. See, for example, "Unpunished U.S. Southern Command role in '09 Honduran military coup" @ Academia.

    As of this writing, none of those senior officials at Southern Command's William Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, located at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., who engaged in hands-on efforts promoting the illegal Honduran coup have been castigated, while at the same time WPC national security whistleblowers have suffered ongoing reprisal.

    “Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.” ― Robert F. Kennedy
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