Retired Admiral William McRaven on Why U.S. Leadership Matters

William McRaven's nearly 40-year career in the U.S. military has spanned everything from deployments as a Navy SEAL, hunting down high-value targets overseas, commanding U.S Special Operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and advising Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Watch more from TIME After retiring from the U.S. military in 2014, McRaven served as the chancellor of the University of Texas System and has written several books on leadership. AI] will help us diagnose problems quicker, it will help us resolve problems quicker. Do you think domestic politics is harmful to U.S. leadership abroad? The fact of matter is, the world needs U.S. leadership. Even people that disagree with our politics understand that U.S. leadership is the most important leadership in the world, because who else is going to lead if we don't? Nobody of any consequence really wants Russia or China leading, certainly not our allies. Looking at the war in Gaza, what do you think of the criticism that the U.S. is not leveraging its leadership effectively?