Michael Bouchard: “Weak leaders breed war.”

“You know, I think if you'd asked the same question five years ago, I would have given you a very different answer. And I think the direct reason to that is leadership. Yes. Strong leaders breed peace. Weak leaders breed war. So after the fall in Afghanistan, I was in the 82nd Airborne Division as an intelligence officer and I wrote a paper. Oh, you were an Afghanistan too?” (20:30–20:33)

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