A Special Forces Combat Vet Explains the Action in The Middle East | Mike O’Rourke Ep-2602
The Todd Herman Show
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Mike O’Rourke, a special forces combat veteran and CEO of Advanced Operational Concepts joins to help us make sense of the military operation taking place in The Middle East…
Episode Links:
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- BREAKING: American pilots reportedly shot down over Kuwait were carrying a “blood chit” a survival message sewn inside their jackets. Written in English, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Kurdish, it reads:
- Footage of Kuwaiti locals approaching one of the shot down American pilots this morning. “Are you OK? Thank you for helping us.”
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| 0:00.0 | I don't think you can help but pay attention to the war in Iran, a regional war now, |
| 0:04.7 | but how we see it, that's different than how someone who's done it sees it. |
| 0:09.0 | Michael Rourke is the Special Forces veteran combat vet. |
| 0:12.0 | He joins us for his eyes on this conflict. |
| 0:14.6 | We'll talk about this with the help of renew.health care and God Almighty. |
| 0:20.2 | The Todd Herman show is 100% disapproved by big pharma technocrats and tyrants everywhere. |
| 0:28.4 | Now, from the high mountains of free America, here's the Emerald City Exide. |
| 0:40.2 | Todd Herman. |
| 0:48.3 | Today is the day the Lord has made, and these are the times through which God is decided we shall live. |
| 0:58.1 | Michael O'Rourke joins me, advanced operational strategies, and Mike is a Special Forces veteran retired now. Mike, welcome back to the Todd Herman Show. It's great to have you here. |
| 1:12.1 | Thanks, Todd. It's going to be back. Yep. It's good to have you here. And you see these things so differently than we do. And we've got a whole series of questions for you. Starting with, let's just from your perspective, rate this as an operation. No politics, |
| 1:16.0 | none of that. There's skepticism. I'm skeptical about the reason for this war, et cetera. |
| 1:22.3 | I back our troops 100%. I think they're incredible. I'm so thankful for them. So what do you see as a grade as an operator in this? How do you grade the affair? It's definitely a success so far. |
| 1:30.7 | We're seriously degrading Iran's ability to attack other countries. I think the war department has said |
| 1:41.0 | that they're about above 75% degraded in their ability to launch, |
| 1:47.8 | particularly into ballistic missiles. |
| 1:49.8 | The drones are still a problem, and the drones are having an easier time getting through. |
| 1:55.6 | They fly much lower. It's a slower flying weapon system, but a lot of them are getting through. |
| 2:04.5 | But the ballistic missiles, which are the real danger, that's the big punch. Those are seriously degraded. |
| 2:10.9 | And so being able to degrade that then, that's one part of this operation, but we just did something else, and this is on the sea. |
| 2:17.9 | You just showed this to me this morning. |
| 2:20.2 | We did something for the first time, to your knowledge, since World War II on the sea. |
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