Silent Crisis: The U.S. Military Decline No One Talks About

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🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Kurt Schlichter is a lawyer, author, and retired Army Colonel. He served for 28 years in the Army and today is a weekly senior columnist for Townhall Media. He is also a TV commentator and the author of numerous books including the Kelly Turnbull series. His latest novel, THE ATTACK, is available now. After college, Kurt joined the United States Army and received his commission as a second lieutenant through Officer Candidate School. While stationed in West Germany, Kurt was deployed to Operation Desert Storm serving as a platoon leader. After leaving active duty, he joined the California Army National Guard and served in various command and staff positions. Kurt served in Kosovo and was mobilized for the Los Angeles riots, the Northridge earthquake, and the 2007 San Diego fires. He is a graduate of the Army’s Combined Arms Staff Service School and the Command and General Staff College and earned a Master of Strategic Studies degree from the United States Army War College. Kurt is a graduate of Loyola Law School, where he was a law review editor. To learn more about Kurt, follow him on X @KurtSchlichter. SPONSORS CRY HAVOC – A Tom Reese Thriller https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/cry-havoc/ Bravo Company Manufacturing: Visit us on the web at http://jackcarr.co/bcm and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA.com SIG: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the legendary SIG SAUER P226. Learn more here - https://jackcarr.co/SIG40thP226 Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here - https://jackcarr.co/gear

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0:00.0	The The United States is not ready for the kind of war we are seeing played out in Ukraine.
0:27.0	I do not think we are ready for a high intensity conventional peer-to-peer battle. They are using the kind of improvisation that we used to
0:37.1	use to win wars and that's one of the secrets of America. Guys like you were the scalpel,
0:42.1	guys like me were the sledgehammer.
0:45.0	The way you win wars is to win them.
0:48.0	And you do what you have to do to win them.
0:50.0	I'm very worried we're losing the edge that helped us win wars.
0:54.6	And it seems since the end of World War II,
0:56.9	it changed from the profession of arms to the career of arms.
0:59.6	Along with that came this lack of accountability.
1:02.3	My freaking battalion could have planned over. with that
1:05.0	came this lack of accountability.
1:06.0	My freaking battalion could have planned over a weekend
1:06.2	a better operation than that cluster. Man, it is so good to see you and I've been following
1:16.5	man, it is so good to see you and I've been following along
1:20.4	I feel like I see you more often than I do because you are still the reigning king of X, formerly known as Twitter.
1:26.4	I don't know why people feel the need to say that. It's been X for a while now, but you're still the reigning king.
1:31.5	I don't know how, well I do know how you got it
1:33.5	because you have this obviously your leadership ability,
1:36.6	you have this comic sarcasm that gets woven
1:41.1	into things that also infuses a little bit of wisdom and wit and I just absolutely love
1:47.8	how you how you work X it's it's fantastic Well I appreciate it man and I'm just so excited about
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