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James Stavridis

Admiral Stavridis (Ret.), a TIME Contributing Editor, was the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and is Vice Chair, Global Affairs and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, and is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation. His new book is 2034: A Novel of the Next World War. His previous nonfiction book was Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character