This is Jocko Podcast Number 440 with Echo Charles and me Jocko Willing.

Good evening, echo.

So on podcast, 438, we talked about Robert McNamara's book.

It's called in retrospect. And in it there's some

very important lessons, hard learned lessons from the Vietnam War and then in talking to General Sean McFarland on

podcast 439 it's clear that we have a tendency to sometimes make the same mistakes, we don't learn, and that's pretty

evident when you look at some of the mistakes that we made in Vietnam that we also

made in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It made me think of a book that I've had for a while

that I, well, it's gonna be very clear.

The book is by B. H. Liddell Hart

and the book is very fittingly called,

why don't we learn from history?

So I remembered that book as I was thinking through these lessons

that we have not learned and I

opened it up to refresh my memory and I found that like much of B. H. Liddell Hart's work, there are some really good

lessons in there. enough many of them don't have anything

to do with or only tangibly relate to us not learning from history so even though

the book is called why don't we Learn from History, a lot of the

lessons in it are only tangently related to that, even though it does talk about why we

don't learn from history. So there's some amazing lessons in this book about war, about history, about

leadership and about life. And so I wanted to take a look at it. Look, B. H.

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