Examine the Human Tragedy in Iraq with Maj. Danny Sjursen

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🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Maj. Danny Sjursen (ret.) shares his experience as a young 1st Lieutenant in the Shia-majority East Baghdad in 2007 – a very dangerous time, with upwards of 100 U.S soldiers being killed each month. Danny reflects on the loss of soldiers under his command by a deadly improvised explosive device and the political conditions that led to it all. Danny Sjursen is a retired US Army strategist and former history instructor at West Point. He served tours with reconnaissance units in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has written a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, Ghostriders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge. IMPORTANT MESSAGE - please complete this survey. Don't miss out on a chance to win $500. It will also help out your pals Henry and Danny. www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave. https://www.patreon.com/brohistory Episode #130 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.4	What's going on guys? Welcome to another episode of Bro history. It's Henry Zamoda and on today's show we have
0:37.3	Retired now Major Danny Schurson
0:40.2	For those of you who don't know this is the third time Danny has been on the show.
0:45.0	Danny is a combat veteran.
0:47.1	He served in Afghanistan and both Iraq.
0:50.9	And we had a pretty intense conversation today about a lot of different things.
0:55.0	We spoke about his experience in East Baghdad,
0:58.0	and then we dived into some other historical topics,
1:02.0	but not only is Danny a combat veteran and a former officer, but he's also a historian.
1:08.8	He taught history at West Point, just a very bright guy. You can find his podcast, A Fortress on a Hill, and his book,
1:17.0	Ghost Writers of Baghdad, Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge. So on this interview we kind of just started talking right away.
1:25.4	Didn't really start it at any proper place so I'm just going to start this right now.
1:30.8	I hope you guys enjoy it. I wanted to ask you I read that
1:38.6	article that you wrote the folly of Iraq war has never been clear. And I got to say, man, I was really moved by the
1:47.1	story that you told about Alexander. It was, I was angry. I was sad. I just felt like it was, it really helped digest the human component of what's been going on in Iraq in the last 20 years.
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