When War is The Easy Part | Mike Glover | Ep. 432
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
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Summary
After two years of legal battles and business upheaval, Mike Glover returns to the podcast with a clarity and perspective few men ever earn. Mike spent nearly two decades as a U.S. Army Green Beret and Special Forces sergeant major, deploying to combat theaters, leading reconnaissance, sniper, and operations elements, and later serving as a contractor for the CIA in high-risk security environments. When he hung up the uniform he founded Fieldcraft Survival, turning elite skills into real-world survival training and gear for civilians, law enforcement, and government clients — shaping an entire industry in the process.
In this conversation, we talk about what the last two years have actually been like — the legal pressure, the business fallout, and what it's like to navigate both in public. Mike lays out where things stand now, what he's learned, and how adversity changes your perspective when it's no longer theoretical. We also get into what he's building next, the direction he's taking in business, and what he hopes the future will hold.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, got the red smoke. |
| 0:21.7 | Gun runs. North and south. West of the smoke. West of the smoke. Okay, copy. West of the smoke. I'm looking at danger close now. Come on winter, baby. Give it to me. I need it. You're cleared hot. Copy, cleared hot. We need this studio tour. We can't wait to see what you've done with Michael's desk. |
| 0:22.8 | It's like, I did nothing. |
| 0:25.7 | This is still a j-in-1. I don't know if you guys know this, but this stuff is expensive. |
| 0:30.3 | And we are not spending a lot of money on Michael's space. |
| 0:34.1 | I know what we have to open with. |
| 0:36.5 | Nobody believes me that you tricked me into writing a book. |
| 0:41.9 | And the more that I have thought about this, how this all played itself out, A, it was your idea to begin with. |
| 0:50.7 | You had the idea and approached me of, let's write a book, two different angles. |
| 0:58.3 | We can pick certain subject matters, maybe seven or eight, whatever it was. We'd figure out a way |
| 1:03.5 | to italicize the text or whatever so people could see that, you know, this would be my thoughts on it, |
| 1:08.7 | then there would be your thoughts on it. |
| 1:13.6 | We are supposed to write a test chapter. |
| 1:15.4 | I think we did, actually. |
| 1:17.4 | Why did you just use the word we? |
| 1:20.0 | Because I did. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah, I remember that. |
| 1:22.8 | What happened? |
| 1:28.4 | You showed up to the date where we were going to submit our test chapter. |
| 1:28.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.3 | And didn't have a chapter that you had written. |
| 1:33.8 | It was so hard. |
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