The Unravelling 7: The Sword of Destruction
Jocko Unraveling
Jocko DEFCOR Network
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Three years onto the Iraq War, the country is in flames and American support for the war is waning. Jocko leads Task Unit Bruiser into Ramadi, the capital of the al Qaeda caliphate, as a part of an effort to engage with local leaders and prove that a counter-insurgency strategy can turn things around
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Jocco Unraveling Podcast episode seven with Darryl Cooper and me, Jocco Willink. |
| 0:07.5 | Let's go ahead and follow the thread. |
| 0:10.1 | So where are we at? |
| 0:11.9 | We left everybody hanging last time. |
| 0:14.3 | We cut it off right as you were about to kick it off in Ramadi. |
| 0:18.0 | And I mean, I think this is... |
| 0:20.2 | There's so much stuff I want to talk about in this one. |
| 0:24.6 | We could start off talking about the stakes at play in Ramadi. |
| 0:29.0 | Now, there were so many people on the domestic side that were saying this war is lost. |
| 0:33.3 | People even in the military who were saying this thing is over and bar at least is done. |
| 0:40.2 | There were people all along from Patrasse, up north of Mosul, at the beginning with the |
| 0:45.0 | 101st, other people in Tallahfar, McMaster and so forth who were saying this thing can |
| 0:49.2 | be won, but you got to change your mentality. |
| 0:51.9 | And so when you get to Ramadi, you mentioned that you picked up the counter-insurgency manual. |
| 0:56.3 | I don't know where you got it because it wasn't published until the December of 2006. |
| 1:00.6 | It wasn't out yet, but I got the latest copy on the internet. |
| 1:03.8 | It was a draft copy. |
| 1:05.2 | And that's... |
| 1:06.2 | I mean, on the... |
| 1:07.2 | Notice I said internet, not on the cipranet. |
| 1:09.5 | It wasn't on the classified side. |
| 1:10.8 | It was a draft copy that I got and I just went and Google searched it and they had just |
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