This is Jocko Podcast Number 446 with Echo Charles and me jock a willing good evening echo good evening. So what are we supposed to do when

We are outmatched or outgunned or out resourced.

So there's an imbalance in warfare.

That means there's an imbalance of resources or an imbalance of technology

or an imbalance in the number of people we have or any number of things there's

any number of things that could be unbalanced.

And so if we're going to war and we're disadvantaged or there's some kind of imbalance we have to do something to overcome

that and that's something is known as asymmetric warfare. So asymmetric warfare is a term that's been through a pretty decent variety of

definitional changes over the last few years, but it's a concept that's important for us to understand because it

applies not only to combat but it also applies of course to business to life to relationships to leadership and

what's interesting is if you're an American and you're listening to this show you might not you'll you'll relate to this as Americans

We learn a lot about asymmetric warfare as children.

Because as children, we learn about what we call

the Revolutionary War, right?

That's what we call it.

The British call it, the British call it, you know, a revolt from the colonies. They have it. My wife's a Brit. They called something different.

But when I was a kid, we learned these things. This was asymmetric warfare.

The British had all the proper weapons.

They had all the proper uniform.

They had all the proper ships.

They had all the proper military regalia.

And we didn't have any of that. But guess what else they did? They stood up in lines in ranks.

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