Hello and welcome to or welcome back to Colonial Outcast, the inherently anti-imperialist podcast that will make your uncle increasingly confused, then uncomfortable, and then inevitably pissed off, as one becomes when their entrenched worldview is challenged by distressing facts and ideas.

My name is Greg Stoker. I'm a former U.S. US Army Ranger turned anti-war activists and geopolitical

analyst commentator for Mint Press news and today after y'all blowing up the comments

sections for the past four months we are joined today by popular request John Elmer of

electronic and to fata so for those for those few of you who may be unfamiliar, I imagine it's not a lot of

you. John is a Canadian writer and photojournalist specializing in the Middle East and Canadian

foreign and military policy has lived and reported extensively from West Bank and Gaza Strip

based in Janine, Bethlehem, and Gaza City covering such topics as the Al-Axa and Tofada and he's been spot on in my

opinion and his operational and tactical analysis of the resistance to the genocide in Palestine,

now expanding its dimensions into Lebanon since the escalation of hostilities last October.

Thanks so much for coming on. Thanks for having me, Greg. It's good to be here.

Yeah. Well, glad we can finally make it happen. I get the same comments. Oh, really?

All right. Well, let's send it then. So hey, real quick, guys, we are on Patreon. We're trying to

actually pay our contributors like professionals and expand the platform with

correspondence in West Asia. If you wanted to help us out with that, hit us up. We have exclusive

content on that thing. And anyways, I hate to have to do that plug. Moving on. So for this episode,

I was kind of hoping we could freeform, go around the battle space and do a sit rep of the different

actions going on. So real quick, I just wanted to talk to you guys about how to conceptualize

or how we in like Western NATO military, as much as I don't like what they do, some things are

helpful from their doctrine. And so there's a basic structure, y'all, I'm hoping will reflect the levels of war.

The basic structure of this episode will, excuse me, reflect the levels of war.

So conceptually, there are three levels of warfare, strategic, operational, and tactical.

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