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News, History, Impactful events and Lessons.
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2Jocko and Darryl welcome Saagar Enjeti, co-host of Breaking Points w/Krystal Ball, to discuss how the changes in the media environment have transformed the nature of American democracy.
Jocko and Darryl discuss the different perspectives of the Israelis and Palestinians, and whether peace is possible.
The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is long and complicated, with heroes, villains, and legitimate grievances on both sides. None of that matters now. Jocko and Darryl discuss the recent assault by Hamas in southern Israel, and the upcoming Israeli response.
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, we've learned much about how thoroughly the information environment has been corrupted and manipulated by politically-motivated actors in Big Tech and the US government. Does the regime change at Twitter herald a new era, or more of the same?
As the war in Ukraine enters its eighth month, both sides are digging in for a long, hard winter. After a series of Ukrainian successes, the Russians have increased the intensity of the conflict, knocking out civilian infrastructure and calling up hundreds of thousands of reservists to throw into the mix. Jocko and Darryl discuss some of the geopolitical implications of the ongoing fight, and try to answer the question: Whose side is time on?
Columbine. Virginia Tech. Las Vegas. Parkland. Buffalo. Uvalde. America has become the land of mass shootings. Jocko & Darryl discuss what might be behind this, and what, if anything, we can do about it. Link to Atlantic Ditch Run 800 fundraiser for veterans, via the Gary Sinise Foundation: https://donate.garysinisefoundation.org/fundraiser/3881751
The war between Russia and Ukraine has slowed to a grinding pace. The lightning strikes attempted by Russia in the early days of fighting were blunted by a determined Ukrainian defense, and Russia consolidated & refocused its forces to battle the heavily-fortified Ukrainian positions in the eastern part of the country. Jocko and Darryl discuss what's happened so far, and what's coming down the pipe.
For most of history, and in much of the world today, there were no effective police, courts, prisons, or states. People and groups protected themselves according to the law of honor immortalized as the epitaph of the Roman consul Lucius Sulla: No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. Jocko and Darryl discuss honor and vengeance in societies ancient and modern.
Jocko and Darryl welcome special guest Scott Horton. Scott is the director of the Libertarian Institute, and the senior editor of antiwar.com. He's also an author of books such as Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, and Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terror.
The Second World War saw all sides engage in unrestrained violence. When the war ended, the US-led Western alliance was suddenly confronted with an aggressive, powerful, and paranoid Soviet Union - a country that had already murdered tens of millions of its own people, and now possessed nuclear weapons. Jocko and Darryl discuss the early days of the Cold War.
Darryl and Jocko discuss free speech, media responsibility, information warfare, and the recent attacks on Joe Rogan.
Foundational to both American and Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War was the view that direct confrontation between the nuclear-armed superpowers must be avoided. We managed to avoid war with the Soviet Union, but today Vladimir Putin's revanchist policies seems to have US foreign policy wonks spoiling for a fight. Surely, cooler heads will prevail... right?
Former Director of Central Intelligence Mike Pompeo once crowed about his time with the CIA, "We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses." Intelligence work and clandestine operations always toe the line dividing legal from illegal, and right from wrong. Sometimes that line gets blurry, and other times it is erased altogether. But is it really possible that the government would tolerate, let alone work with, someone like Jeffrey Epstein? Well...
What is a liberal democracy without a functional free press? The idea almost seems like a contradiction in terms. The mass media has become both more centralized and more politicized, driving us into closed silos of information and sense-making, and leading many Americans to doubt everything they don't hear from a trusted member of their own political tribe. Jocko & Darryl discuss the historical trends that have led to this situation, and whether there's a way out of the mess.
Description: The French Revolution ended the era of limited warfare, and ushered in the era of peoples' war. The Napoleonic Wars shocked Europe's great powers into a century of relatively few direct military confrontations, but those that occurred - the US Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, and the Russo-Japanese & Crimean Wars - were prelude to the industrial violence that would engulf the continent in World War 1. But even the savagery and degradation of the Great War did not prepare anyone for what was in store the second time around, when unprecedented technological brutality targeted the civilians of enemy nations.
In episode #22, we discussed the pivotal year 1917, when the United States and the Soviet Union began their entry onto the stage of global power politics, and the tide decisively turned in the First World War. In this episode, we continue our journey through the 20th century with a conversation about how The Great War ended - or did it? - and about the ethics and consequences of kicking a downed opponent in the ribs.
Jocko and Darryl welcome Bryan Suits, host of The Dark Secret Place podcast, to discuss Chinese propaganda films, military tech, and global strategy. Bryan is a veteran of both Iraq Wars, the Bosnia peacekeeping mission, and patrolled the streets of Los Angeles during the 1992 riots as a young National Guardsman. Check out great The Dark Secret Place podcast at thedarksecretplace.com.
Jocko & Darryl discuss the humiliating and catastrophic final days of the US war in Afghanistan. This episode is dedicated to the heroic efforts of the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines & civilians who put their bodies on the line to help our people escape the Taliban.
"There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen." -V.I. Lenin This is the first of a series of discussions about critical years in the 20th century. As the First World War entered its 4th year, the mighty German army had the Entente powers on the ropes. But two men who started the year 1917 uninvolved with the Great War would soon make decisions that would determine the outcome, and shape geopolitics for the rest of the century.
With the longest war in American history officially set to wrap up next month, Jocko and Darryl take stock of mistakes made, missed opportunities, lessons learned, and where things stand.
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When Jocko comes out as the reasonable party of a conversation, which he does here, you really should stop the conversation. Don't know what has happened with Darrell but the development is scary.
I really enjoyed this podcast when it wasn't as overtly political, but it is starting to feel like another agenda machine. It really is just about impossible these days to find someone unwilling to fall into "theys".
great, another cringe anti Biden podcast. Thanks for weaving your biased politics into a podcast about unprovoked war.
Great stuff.. Now do we have the stomach to do any of this?
"This is, The Scott Horton podcast" 🤣🤣🤣 Awesome info but damn, Scott, let Jocko at least participate!
when "potato head dude with the mickey mouse voice" is a compliment...too kind
I appreciate Jocko's attempts to be optimistic, but I had to chuckle when he said that Americans don't like to be controlled. All you have to do is go into a grocery store anywhere in the country and see the crowds of masked people to know that this generation of "Americans" has no problem with doing exactly what they are told. Jocko does not realize the difference between the public school system he was raised in 40 years ago, and the indoctrination machine that the US education system has become.
Love the Podcast and even thougb your political leanings are clear, I generally think you both do a good job of steering clear of turning this into a one sided political podcast, but I was a bit disappointed in this episode and felt it offered a very one sided approach. Media manipulation isn't a leftist thing, but something both the left and right have been heavily indulging in for the last 30 years. Yes, they have always been intertwined, but not like they are today. I absolutely agree that you're not going to find a whole lot in the NYT that doesn't have liberal finger prints all over it, but Fox News is still the number one news organization in the U.S., yet somehow the powerful ecosystem they have developed goes unmentioned. I really think you should have touched on the FCC's Fairness Doctrine and its dissolution in the Reagan era. That to me laid the groundwork for major media organizations to become overtly political and essentially to become extensions of the left and right
I agree wholeheartedly with the assessment of the trash fire that is the Afghanistan withdrawal; it frustrates me that there wasn’t a cacophony of this same criticism for the last four years.
very unfair synopsis of the 2014 revolt it was very non violent from the revolutionary side and was driven by grassroots movement.
quite possibly the most brutal episode you've made, im not even but 15 minutes in.
Darryl has said on Twitter that it should be back up this week some time. Possibly issues with the name? There's already another podcast called The Thread...
what happened to the episodes?
For any of you looking for the first 7 episodes, go to https://www.reddit.com/r/JockoPodcast/comments/ghv2zs/the_thread_podcast/ and you'll find some people that archived them. Hopefully whatever technical issue involved fixes itself
where'd the episodes go? did this move to a new channel?
What happened to this podcast?
Don't often hear Jocko saying Nonetheless.
love it! been listening to jocks for a long time but never got into the warrior kid or grounded podcasts. this one is so interesting.
Thanks for finally telling the story of why Iraq was an important war to fight. Christopher Hitchens used to be the only guys with the balls to try and explain it. I was in Ftown in 06 and people were quick to thank me for my service with the caveat "too bad it's not a good cause". I'd argue it but, no one listens to a college kid who did a tour, they thought I was some dumb Marine who didn't know what was going on.