This is Jocko podcast number 438 with echo Charles and me. Jocko Willink good evening echo good evening

David hackworth

Colonel US Army retired the most decorated American veteran of the Vietnam War, writing in Newsweek,

April 24, 1995, quoted a fellow veteran as saying when he first heard of the book he quote felt a

strict a sense of rage beginning to well up deep inside me, a rage I have worked hard to suppress over the last 25 years."

End quote.

But Hackworth ended his article with these words.

McNamara's book is an important step toward understanding what happened,

and it may help some of the walking wounded to move further along the healing path of forgiveness.

And that's good for America's collective soul.

So that right there, that's a quote from, what is it called, the new forward, the additional, the updated forward for a book that is called in retrospect

which is written by Robert S McNamara so the original book came out in 1991

and that book was reviewed clearly by David Hackworth and

then in this new version of the book which came out in 1995 McNamara quotes what Hackworth had said.

Now, as you may know, I'm not a fan of McNamara, who was John F. Kennedy's and then Linen B Johnson's

Secretary of Defense and there's a whole slew of reasons why I've never liked him and

in fact why I have always pretty much despised him

there's a bunch of reasons he always seemed arrogant he seemed like a know at all.

And more important than any of that,

he sent tens of thousands of men,

including mentally disabled men, which we covered on podcast 315 talking about

Project 100,000 where they lowered the standards in a physical and mental areas to allow more people to go into the military,

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