Stanley McChrystal

Stanley McChrystal      ( soldier)
Born	Stanley Allen McChrystal 1954-08-14  Fort Leavenworth,  Kansas,  U.S.
Alma mater	•  United States Military Academy •  John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School •  Naval War College •  Salve Regina University •  Harvard University
Spouse	Annie Corcoran
Member of	Council on Foreign Relations/Members M-O, Independent Task Force on Improving Pandemic Preparedness, Justice for Kurds
Party	Democratic
Spooky US soldier  Commander of the International Security Assistance Force In office June 15, 2009 - June 23, 2010 Succeeded by David Petraeus

Stanley McChrystal

 

A Document by Stanley McChrystal

Title	Document type	Description
Document:Regional counterterrorism strategy for Iraq and its neighbors	minutes	Minutes of a meeting of all the senior US spooks and spooky diplomats from Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey met in Kuwait in March 2006 to develop a regional "counterterrorism" strategy. They agreed the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay was a key recruitment driver

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Al-Qaeda in Iraq	“Although there were relatively few foreign fighters in Iraq and most came from neighboring Syria, McChrystal was the primary proponent of the view, quick to spread among Washington policymakers, that the enemy was not a nationalist rebellion against outside occupation, but one node of a global conspiracy of America-hating terrorists. To describe this nebulous and inherently malignant foe, McChrystal and his staff invented the term “al-Qaeda in Iraq” or AQI. At the top of this dubious organization, which they themselves had done more than anyone else to conjure into being, JSOC analysts placed the dopey Jordanian criminal Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a mysterious Bedouin bogeyman, much hyped by deceitful Pentagon spooks in the runup to the war, who may not have even been in Iraq at the time. To explain away the paucity of tangible contacts between insurgents in Iraq and Osama bin Laden’s organization, the remnants of which were now scattered around Pakistan and Yemen, McChrystal and his aides redefined al-Qaeda as a concentric grouping of decentralized “franchises” operating on a “blind cell model.” In his memoir, McChrystal admits with remarkable if belated frankness that JSOC produced intelligence assessments “that inflated al-Qaeda’s role,” and “problematically used ‘AQI’ as a catchall designation for any Sunni group that attacked Americans.” This narrative, he acknowledges, was a way to “sidestep the reality” that most Iraqi insurgents were primarily motivated by “earthly grievances,” not Islamist ideology.”	Seth Harp	12 August 2025
Joint Special Operations Command	“The point of the 'Special Operations’ teams (SOT) is that they do not distinguish between civilian and military oppositions, between activists and their sympathizers and the armed resistance. The SOT specialize in establishing death squads and recruiting and training paramilitary forces to terrorize communities, neighborhoods and social movements opposing US client regimes. The SOT's 'counter-terrorism' is terrorism in reverse, focusing on socio-political groups between US proxies and the armed resistance. McChrystal's SOT targeted local and national insurgent leaders in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan through commando raids and air strikes. McChrystal was a special favorite of Rumsfeld and Cheney because he was in charge of the 'direct action' forces of the 'Special Missions Units'. 'Direct Action' operative are the death-squads and torturers and their only engagement with the local population is to terrorize, and not to propagandize. They engage in 'propaganda of the dead', assassinating local leaders to 'teach' the locals to obey and submit to the occupation.”	James Petras	2009

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Dialog/2013	2013	2013		The 2013 meeting of a secretive, invite-only network founded by Peter Thiel. The list of participants was discovered in the Jeffrey Epstein e-mails.
Yalta European Strategy/Meeting/2015	10 September 2015	12 September 2015	Ukraine Kiev	Yearly junket conference in Ukraine funded by sugar daddy Victor Pinchuk.

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