66: Gen. HR McMaster's Tactical/Strategic Lessons Learned from his War Fighting Experience. Liars, Defending Bad Leaders, Jiu Jitsu Strength, & Dealing w/ The Grind

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🗓️ 15 March 2017

⏱️ 180 minutes

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening/Gen. HR McMaster's account in the First Gulf War. The Battle of 73 Easting. Tactical & Strategic lessons learned.

0:57:23 - The 4 Fallacies of Warfare.

1:24:50 - QUESTIONS and ANSWERS from the interwebs.

1:24:56 - Should you defend bad leaders to your men?

1:40:05 - How to avoid taking things too personally.

1:51:51 - Using too much strength in Jiu Jitsu. Training for better technique.

2:01:54 - What to do when someone lies, betrays trust, or "destroys" you.

2:15:12 - Direct Attack and Indirect Attack strategies.

2:17:21 - Dealing with the Daily Grind Struggle.

2:27:49 - Suggestions on how to actually employ Extreme Ownership and Discipline.

2:30:42 - Support, Cool Onnit, Amazon, JockoStore stuff, with Jocko White Tea and Psychological Warfare (on iTunes). Extreme Ownership (book), (Jocko's Kids' Book) Way of the Warrior Kid, and The Muster002

2:58:04 - Closing Gratitude

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0:00.0	This is Jocco Podcast number 66 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.
0:07.0	Good evening, Echo. Good evening.
0:12.0	At 3.25 the troop once again received orders to attack.
0:18.0	I gave an order full of enthusiasm. I told the troop we attack in five minutes to the 70 easting.
0:25.0	This is the movement we have all awaited.
0:29.0	Although we knew the general locations of large enemy units, we had not received detailed intelligence about the enemy we were to encounter.
0:37.0	I had a feeling however that this time we would meet the enemy.
0:42.0	Lieutenant Gautier, known for his deadpan sense of humor, asked on the radio, what kind of contact can we expect?
0:51.0	I replied, enemy contact. He said, Roger, that's the best kind.
0:58.0	And the troop rolled forward through the blowing sand.
1:04.0	And that's a little excerpt from a personal account from a guy by the name of HR McMaster.
1:13.0	He has heard about recently coming into a higher profile job in the current administration.
1:23.0	He's a very interesting guy.
1:25.0	And I wanted to talk a little bit about his experience and some of the things that he said about, that's the way he sees things.
1:32.0	And so he was in this big battle in the first Gulf War as a captain, so in charge of a group of 140 guys.
1:44.0	And he fought in this battle called the Battle of 73 Easting.
1:48.0	And I'm going to go to a little excerpt from Wikipedia that sort of gives you the broad idea of what was going on.
1:55.0	The 73 Easting refers narrowly to the violent armored combat action that took place in the final hours of second ACR's covering force operation in the zone of second squadron and in the northern third of the third squadron zone.
2:11.0	In the battle, four of second ACR's armored cavalry troops, troops E, G, and I with troop K contributing to eye troops fight, totaling about 36 M1A1 tanks defeated two enemy brigades.
2:28.0	The 18th brigade and later in the day, the 9th armored brigade.
2:32.0	So it's interesting you have a legitimate tank battle, right, like a World War II style tank battle that took place in the first Gulf War.
2:41.0	And that's what this is talking about. And McMaster at the time McMaster was in charge of Eagle troop.
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