This is Jocco podcast number 198 with David Burke and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, David.

Good evening. And David is back on the podcast because Echo is well, he's still on vacation.

And we are continuing the thread that we did on the last podcast with Andrew Paul.

The last podcast we discussed a German field manual called Troopin Führung, which means leading troops.

And I mentioned the American version of that document. It's called Field Service Regulations FM 100-TAC-5.

And the one, and this is a little bit, it's not that important, but I'm going to bring it up later.

The one that we're going to talk about was published in 1941. So prior to the entry of us into World War II.

And they plagiarized heavily from the Troopin Führung. But there are enough differences in here that it does merit its own review.

So we're going to look at it. We're going to explore leadership once again, Dave. Are you ready?

I'm ready. All right, let's go to Field Service Regulations FM 100-TAC-5. There's actually a little intro section in here.

And it goes like this, Prefess, on 22 May 1941, the War Department published a new version of FM 105 operations.

This manual superseded a tentative 1939 version, which I actually have not seen. I'll have to dig that one up.

The most recent official addition had been the Field Service Regulations data in 1923. The Army of 1941 desperately needed an up-to-date, doctrinal guidance.

The world was already engulfed in war, and the United States had begun to mobilize. Thus, the Army was eight times larger than it had been in 1939.

That's two years, 1939 to 1941. You want to talk, you know, you and I work with companies now, and we're growing a lot. We're in a growth phase, eight times bigger in two years.

And we're not talking about a small organ. It's one thing to go from, you know, two people to 16. Hey, we're eight times bigger.

But to go from whatever a few hundred thousand to over a million, that's serious growth.

So continuing more over it, it also embarked on a modernization program that affected virtually every facet of military activity.

The edition, the 1941 edition of FM 100 TAC 5 encapsulates the state of Army doctrine on the eve of America's entry into World War II.

The 1941 version of FM 100 TAC 5 has long been recognized as a classic piece of doctrine writing, remarkable for its clarity of concept and prose.

Now, come on, folks. We can't give you that much credit. We just read the German version, and we know that we know where you're getting this from.

So that's that's a little bit of a bold statement there, coming from from this preface. It also has valuable historical, it is also a valuable historical artifact preserving as it does the doctrinal thought of the army at a critical juncture in history.

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