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Ep 199: Jonathan Hackett on Our Failures in Iraq & Afghanistan


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Jonathan Hackett, former U.S. Marine Corps interrogator and author of Theory of Irregular War, joins the show to discuss America’s post-9/11 wars and how irregular warfare works. 

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    •      01:12 Introduction

    •      01:30 A good interrogator  

    •      03:26 Afghanistan

    •      06:15 In the interrogation room  

    •      12:10 The Reid Technique    

    •      14:27 Galula

    •      17:10 A military solution      

    •      23:32 Voluntary acceptance  

    •      25:34 Irregular War 

    •      28:20 The war we have     

    •      31:33 COIN

    •      36:10 Speaking the language      


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