We had technical difficulties with today's podcast, so in the mean time, enjoy this interview with Steven Bucci, a visiting fellow with the Heritage Foundation who discusses today's Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Bucci served America for three decades as an Army Special Forces officer and top Pentagon official. As commander of 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces, Bucci led deployments to eastern Africa, South Asia, and the Persian Gulf—including Operation Desert Thunder in 1998 in response to Saddam Hussein’s threats to violate the no-fly zone over Iraq.

Bucci was a seasoned leader in the 82nd Airborne as well as 5th & 7th Special Forces when, in July 2001, he assumed the duties of military assistant to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Little over nine weeks later, Bucci witnessed the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. He worked directly for Rumsfeld daily for five and a half years. He continued to serve the defense secretary in a succession of posts until retiring from the Army in 2005 with the rank of colonel. He stayed on at the Pentagon as a civilian appointee with the title of deputy assistant secretary of defense.

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