This is Jocco Podcast number 62 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

The smallest detail taken from an actual incident in war is more instructive for me, a soldier, than all the

the years and the world. They speak no doubt for the heads of states and armies, but they never show

me what I wish to know, a battalion, a company, a squad in action. Concerning a regiment, a battalion,

a company, a squad, it is interesting to know the disposition taken to meet the enemy or order

for the march toward them. What becomes of this disposition or this march order under the isolated

or combined influences of accents of the terrain and the approach of the danger? Is this order

changed or is it continued in force when approaching the enemy? What becomes of it

arriving within the range of the guns, within the range of the bullets? At what distance is a

voluntary or an ordered disposition taken before starting operations for commencing fire, for charging,

or for both? How did the fight start? How about the firing? How did the man adapt themselves?

How was the charge made? At what distance did the enemy flee before it? At what distance did the

charge fall back before the fire or the good order and good disposition of the enemy, or before such

and such a movement of the enemy? What did it cost? What can be said about all these with reference

to the enemy? What about the behavior? I.e. the order, the disorder, the shouts, the silence,

the confusion, the calmness of the officers and men, whether with us or with the enemy before

during and after combat? How has the soldier been controlled and directed during the action?

At what instant has he had a tendency to quit the line in order to remain behind or rush ahead?

At what moment if the control were escaping the leader's hands, has it no longer been possible

to exercise it? At what instant has this control escape from the battalion commander? When from the

captain, the section leader or the squad leader? What time in short if such a thing did take place,

was there but a disordered impulse? Whether to the front or to the rear, carrying along,

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