Rep. Mike Waltz Returns: The Afghanistan Withdrawal, One Year Later

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is a combat-decorated Special Forces veteran and congressman from Florida’s 6th district.

Mike Waltz served as a defense policy director for Secretaries of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates and as Vice President Dick Cheney's counterterrorism advisor between combat deployments to Afghanistan directly implementing policies and strategy on the front lines that he helped create in Washington, D.C. A Florida native, Congressman Waltz attended the Virginia Military Institute and served more than two decades in the U.S. Army conducting multiple combat tours in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Africa. Today he continues to serve as a Colonel in the National Guard. He is the author of the book WARRIOR DIPLOMAT: A GREEN BERET’S BATTLES FROM WASHINGTON TO AFGHANISTAN.

The book’s proceeds are donated to veterans’ foundations. Mike is also a successful small business owner and is a frequent media contributor addressing issues related to foreign policy, intelligence and national defense. He is also the author of the new children’s book Dawn of the Brave. Today on Danger Close, Jack and Congressman Waltz look back at the American military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, one year later and more.

To learn more about Rep. Waltz you can visit his website https://mikewaltz.com You can also follow him on Instagram @repmichaelwaltz and @michaelgwaltz and on Twitter @michaelgwaltz.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the Danger Close Podcast.
0:08.5	Beyond the Books, but me, Jack Cork.
0:16.9	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit
0:21.2	Union.
0:22.2	My guest today is Congressman Michael Walts.
0:25.2	We talked to you last year, right before the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
0:29.1	We talked about his book right here, Warrior Diplomat.
0:32.0	He is an Army Special Forces soldier and officer, and also worked in policy.
0:38.8	He worked in Washington, D.C. in that bureaucracy, and then went downrange at that tactical
0:45.7	level and led troops in battle.
0:47.8	He's an amazing guy.
0:49.2	Congressman from Florida, and he has written a new book, Dawn of the Brave, and it's a
0:54.8	series, it's a book right here, Children's Book series, and it is awesome because it's
0:59.9	not just a story.
1:02.3	It then, at the end, has missions and lessons from those missions.
1:07.6	So a very cool Dawn of the Brave, Mike Walts.
1:10.7	You can find it at bravebooks.com.
1:13.4	We talk about that on this podcast.
1:15.1	We talk about Afghanistan and the state of the nation.
1:18.1	Now, without further ado, Mike Walts.
1:25.1	Hey, what's happening?
1:28.7	Well, guess what?
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