This evening we are sitting down with a person that has been at the center of controversy and conversation for a few months now. He was jailed and removed from his job as the Battalion CO at Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry East, on Camp Lejeune; following a series of videos that were criticizing the upper echelons of the Corps.  The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan was a failure in planning and execution at the strategic level and in the eyes of LtCol. Scheller, someone needed to be held accountable. It is no question that there were mistakes made, but when “Big Marine Corps” went after Scheller it raised my curiosity. Why would the ranks try to rip this man apart so badly, for something that a solid swath of the population agreed with? The warfighting population that is.  In episode 17 we had LtCol. Retired Jonathan Myers on the show where we covered his book, “American to the Corps”. In the book and the interview, he talked about the withdrawal from Afghanistan as well. He was with the J5 Intelligence Joint staff as an intelligence officer.  According to Myers, the capabilities of the Taliban and the possibilities of them taking back control of the country were always being briefed. None of the plans being briefed included leaving overnight, he stated that it was unheard of. He mentioned “if you ask anybody the rank of Colonel and above, you going to get one answer as to whether or not the Taliban is going to take over after we leave. If you ask anybody Lieutenant Colonel and below, especially you guys having served there and worked alongside the Afghan National Army, not special forces allies and translators, you’re going to get a completely different answer”. He added that “Once you hit Colonel and General Officer it becomes politics, all politics”.  When enough sane-minded people are saying the same thing, it might be worth looking into. I told many of my friends that the only way for what Scheller did, to make sense to me, is if he follows through. The groundwork has been laid, and the movement is underway. The words “America needs leaders, not politicians” can be found at the top of his website followed by these words.  “America’s Problem: The American representative democracy’s greatest threat is the current state of divisiveness. Great Republics don’t fail from external forces. Like ancient Rome and Yugoslavia, they fail from internal strife and decay. This often-unspoken problem corrodes the American way of life from the inside. The polarization of key departments in the American government, such as defense and justice, are symptomatic of the same problem. Furthermore, the critical issues facing America’s future (national debt, immigration, and an ineffective military system to name a few) are consistently unaddressed because solutions don’t fall perfectly in-line with one political party’s dogma. The American people are at an inflection point and must decide soon if the current form of government still serves their interests”. Tonight, we will find out from Stuart Scheller himself about his choices, his follow-through, and his upcoming book, “Crisis of Command”.  LtCol. Scheller, Sir thanks for coming on the show to chat for a bit. I want to end up where the monologue ends, but I need to know how we got here.