Why is saceur always american
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James G. Stavridis
US Navy admiral (born 1955)
James George Stavridis (born February 15, 1955)[2] is a retired United States Navyadmiral and vice chair, global affairs, and a managing director-partner of The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm,[3][4][5] and chair of the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation.[6][7] Stavridis serves as the chief international diplomacy and national security analyst for NBC News in New York.[8] He is also chair emeritus of the board of directors of the United States Naval Institute[9][10][11] and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.[12]
Stavridis graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1976. While in the Navy, Stavridis served as the commander, United States Southern Command (2006 to 2009) and commander, United States European Command and NATOSupreme Allied Commander Europe (2009 to 2013),[13][14] the first Navy officer to have held these positions. St
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James G. Stavridis
Admiral, U.S. Navy
James G. Stavridis was born on 15 February 1955 in West Palm Beach, FL.
Stavridis is a 1976 distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a native of South Florida. He is a career surface warfare officer and served at sea in carriers, cruisers, and destroyers. After serving with distinction as Operations Officer on the newly-commissioned USS Valley Forge, Stavridis commanded destroyer USS Barry from 1993-95, completing deployments to Haiti, Bosnia, and the Persian Gulf. Barry won the Battenberg Cup as the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet under his command. In 1998, he commanded Destroyer Squadron 21 and deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1998, winning the Navy League's John Paul Jones Award for Inspirational Leadership. From 2002-04, Stavridis commanded Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, conducting combat operations in the Persian Gulf in support of both the successful Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Afterwards, VADM Stavridis served as Senior Military Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Ashore, he
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Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) is the commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Allied Command Operations (ACO) and head of ACO's headquarters, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). The commander is based at SHAPE in Casteau, Belgium. In effect, SACEUR is the second-highest military position within NATO, below only the Chair of the NATO Military Committee in terms of precedence.[2] There is another Supreme Allied Commander in NATO, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), titularly equal, but whose duties are less operational. SACT, in Norfolk, Virginia, has responsibility for capability development rather than operations.
SACEUR has always been held by a U.S. military officer, and the position is dual-hatted with that of Commander of United States European Command.
The current SACEUR is General Christopher G. Cavoli of the United States Army.
List of holders
Since 2003 the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SAC
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