The Liberators | Part 12

The Cold War: Prelude To The Present

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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A change of commanders comes too late to reverse the situation in Southeast Asia as Richard Nixon's program of 'Vietnamization' eases America out of its worst-directed war. But long before the last American serviceman leaves Vietnam, a new generation of liberators rise to the challenge of saving American tactics, weaponry and doctrine from themselves. Thirty thousand feet above the Green Spot at Nellis Air Force Base, a loud, uncouth, unpleasant warrior / poet emerges. Starting with his almost supernatural feel for what a fighter jet can and cannot do, he will spend a decade teaching himself the engineering skill and mathematical language necessary for him to quantify what works in the lethal world of aerial combat, and what does not. Fighting an uphill battle against arrogance, ignorance and intransigence, his legendarily irrefutable Pentagon briefings will forever change the way America builds the fighter aircraft that will guarantee the Air Superiority needed to prevail on the Cold War battlefield of central Germany. And a fellow liberator, just a kid who grew up hunting in his native Arkansas, will just as effectively revolutionize American ground tactics through sheer courage, concentration and willpower, and usher in the age of Special Forces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	About 100 miles north of Las Vegas, there's a clump of wild grass and cotton with trees
0:05.5	called the Green Spot.
0:08.8	Not much to look at from the ground, but from 30,000 feet above the brown Nevada desert,
0:12.9	it stands out for hundreds of miles.
0:15.8	In the mid to late 50s, a fighter pilot could earn himself a quick 40 bucks and perhaps
0:20.4	a nice steak dinner in Vegas, not to mention everlasting renown, which is to fighter pilots
0:25.6	what oxygen is to us lesser beings.
0:28.6	By meeting over the Green Spot at 30,000 feet and taking position just a thousand feet
0:33.6	behind an arrogant and unpleasant man with precisely zero air to air victories to his credit.
0:40.2	Now, from that perfect kill position, when you were ready, you would yell,
0:43.4	flights on, and if that sitting duck in front of you was not on your tail with you and
0:48.1	his gun sites in 40 seconds flat, then you would win the money, the dinner, and best of
0:54.2	all, the fame.
0:56.5	It'd be challenged in such a manner as an irresistible red flag to fighter pilots and
1:00.6	certainly no less of one, because the challenger was a rude, loud, irreverent braggart who'd
1:06.6	never been victorious in actual air to air combat.
1:10.3	And yet, that $40 went uncollected, uncollected for many years against scores of the best
1:16.8	fighter pilots in the world.
1:19.2	That's more than luck.
1:20.9	That's more than skill, that's more than tactics.
1:23.8	That level of supremacy is the result of the ability to see things in an entirely new
1:28.6	way.
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