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🗓️ 27 July 2020
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After the fall of Saddam’s regime, US forces struggle to provide security as an insurgency takes shape. Jocko’s first tour is action-packed, but ends as Iraq spirals out of control.
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0:00.0 | This is the Jocco Unraveling Podcast episode four with Darrell Cooper and me, Jocco Willink. |
0:10.1 | And we are about to pick up the thread of Jocco going to war. |
0:18.1 | I want to read something from Tom Rick's book, Fiasco, in the early part, from the earliest |
0:24.1 | part of the invasion because I want to give people an idea of the fire you were jumping |
0:30.5 | into in September, October, 2003. |
0:34.9 | So the war started in March and the conventional forces of the Iraqis and the resistance in |
0:41.0 | the cities is precisely the match for the US military that you think it is and we burned |
0:48.1 | through them. |
0:55.3 | Get up into Baghdad quick, they take the airport, they make their thunder run through the |
0:58.6 | city and the regime collapses very rapidly. |
1:02.5 | That's in March, an early April. |
1:05.5 | And this passage is referring to a period now April into May. |
1:12.0 | Quote. |
1:14.2 | Baghdad was falling apart in front of the eyes of the US military with buildings being |
1:18.2 | looted and parents afraid to let their children outside but no one had orders to do anything |
1:23.0 | about it. |
1:24.9 | Looking back several years later, Colonel Allen King, the head of civil affairs for 3 |
1:29.3 | ID, spoke of April 2003 with a slow, chilled tone of horror in his voice. |
1:36.1 | I got to Baghdad and was told you've got 24 hours to come up with a phase 4 plan. |
1:42.2 | From the night of April 8, Colonel John Sterling, chief of staff of 3 ID came to me and said, |
1:47.8 | I just got off the phone with the core chief of staff and I asked him for the reconstruction |
1:51.6 | plan and he said there isn't one. |
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