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Angry Planet

US SpecOps Is Training to Fight Russian Tanks and Memes

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3882 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

There’s war all over these days, but it’s different. War has, in fact changed, and the operators of the future are preparing for different challenges in different theaters. The bulk of US involved conflict is happening in the Middle East and North Africa, but the Pentagon is preparing for fighting in more traditional theaters.


Marty Skovlund Jr. is a veteran of 1st Ranger Battalion, the Executive Editor of Coffee or Die Magazine and a frequent guest of the show. He’s been covering military training in Europe where he witnessed America’s special operation forces training alongside their European counterparts. The threat they think they might face? It’s decidedly Russian.


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They have an entire fake intranet, I guess you would call it, but like a fake Twitter, a fake Facebook that the military leaders were having to go on and kind of address, you know, do counter propaganda messaging and shape the information operations, you know, to kind of keep the that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

0:54.8

Here are your hosts. Hello, welcome to War College. I am your host Matthew Galt. There's war all over these days, but it's different.

1:16.1

War has in fact changed and the operators of the future are preparing for different challenges

1:20.6

in different theaters. The bulk of U.S. to involve conflict today is happening in the

1:25.2

Middle East and North Africa, but the Pentagon is preparing for fighting in more traditional theaters.

1:30.7

Marty Scovlin Jr. is a veteran of First Ranger Battalion, the executive editor of Coffee or Die magazine, and a frequent guest on the show.

1:38.0

He's been covering military training in Europe where he witnessed America's Special Operations forces training alongside their European counterparts.

1:45.2

The threat they think they might face is decidedly Russian.

1:49.5

Thank you so much for coming on the show, Marty.

1:52.0

Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me on again.

1:54.6

This is great.

1:55.6

I always look forward to a great conversation with you guys.

1:59.2

So.

2:00.2

Excellent.

2:01.2

Let's jump right into it.

2:02.0

You just got back from Europe, right?

2:04.0

Yes. So where were you? What did you see on this most recent trip and is the article already out or is it forthcoming?

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