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  • The World to the North
    The World to the North
    I just completed an excellent visit to Canada, our neighbor and NATO partner just north of the United States.  As every U.S. citizen learns in elementary school, we sit side-by-side along the longest undefended border in the world, completely at peace with good friends who live in a land of remarkable

    Author:   ADM Jim Stavridis
    Tags: From the Bridge | Canada | French
  • Five Great Reads for the New Year
    Five Great Reads for the New Year
    While the U.S. European Command and SHAPE reading lists (available from our websites) provide some wonderful selections, I thought I’d quickly offer five good books that I read over the course of 2009 that relate to some aspect of what we are about these days.  Since reading both fiction and non-fiction is

    Author:   ADM Jim Stavridis
    Tags: From the Bridge | Empires of the Sea | EUCOM
  • Reaching Out to My Team at U.S. European Command
    Reaching Out to My Team at U.S. European Command
    Last Friday I flew to my U.S. European Command (EUCOM) headquarters in Stuttgart to conduct an “All Hands” with the military and civilian personnel assigned to the headquarters at Patch Barracks. The flight from my NATO headquarters in Belgium was an airborne “sleigh ride,” and the landing a bit of a white

    Author:   ADM Jim Stavridis
    Tags: From the Bridge | Afghanistan | Airmen
  • A Global Force for Good
    A Global Force for Good
    Just left historic Munich, Germany where I was fortunate to attend and speak at their annual Security Conference. What an all star crowd of attendees! There were senior and impressive delegations from around the globe, including all NATO nations, most of the Afghan contributing countries, Afghanistan,

    Author:   ADM Jim Stavridis
    Tags: Conferences | EUCOM | From the Bridge