This is Jockel Podcast number 379 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Wilink. Good evening, Echo.

Good evening. So, we leave it a little over four years ago. We did a podcast, actually we did two

podcasts from a book called Psychology for the Fighting Man. This was a book that was written

in 1943. The subtitle of the book is What You Should Know About Yourself and Others.

We did five hours on that book. We broke it into two podcasts. It's number 164 and 165. If you

haven't listened to those two podcasts, that's not a good information. In there, well,

that book, like I said, was written in 1943. A couple of years after that, the military released

another book. It was in 1945. It was after World War II had ended. And this book was called Psychology

for the Armed Services. And there was a lot of information in it. That was very similar. That

is very similar between the two books. But there are some highlights that were changed,

you know, as they wrapped up two more years of war in World War II. And I wanted to cover just

some highlights of that from this book, this book called Psychology for the Armed Services.

So there you go. We're going to jump into it. Psychology for the Armed Services. It starts

off from the preface saying, Psychology has never had proper emphasis in American military development,

training and combat. Psychology is the science that asks what man is living, breathing man, why

and how he does all that he does. Hence, there is no human activity. And therefore, no military

activity that does not come within range of its investigation and of the application of its

principles. Psychology as the study of man has extensive application in every military field.

So there you go. This is usable just about everywhere. It says one reason that for this failure is

that the scope of psychology has not been clearly understood. This perhaps has not been entirely

the fault of the services. Psychologists like military men have had to create and use a

technical language. And like military men, they have become fearful of inaccuracy and misinterpretation

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