This is Jocco Podcast number six with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Time to

get back to the books. Last time I read some letters and today we're going back

to the books and actually this one is kind of hard pressed or it's a stretch to

call this a book. Today we're, you know, I've given some a pretty, you know, the last

hundred yards is a very rare piece of piece of literature if you could even call

it that. Same with battle leadership. That's pretty rare. Now that one can be

found on the internet. About face was a pretty popular book but this one

tonight we're going with something that many people have heard of or at a minimum

you've heard of Napoleon, right? But what's interesting about this and what's

almost makes it cheating from my perspective for me is that these are

maxims. These are already parsed down and put into a format that's very easy to

understand. You know, the work has already been done and I'll tell you it is

hard for me to find books or pieces of information to do this with and part of

the reason is it takes a, it takes, I'm looking for something very specific

right? And it's not, you know, there's so there's a lot of, there's tons of

great books about war and they are about war. They're about what happened and

how the war happened and what tactics were used and what unit moved where and

how many people they killed and how many maneuvers they did and so that's very

interesting and there's definitely lessons to be learned from that and there's

knowledge and that there's knowledge inside of tactics. You know, the most

common one is like if you talk about the flank which is the most common tactic is

you know, if you're assaulting a target you go straight on and that's that's a

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