but the secret sauce is the nco in an effort to fight and the nco in the infantry that is constantly pushing his cr subordinates and dominating ther battle spacey .hi >>ng one of the biggest lessonss that the military learned from a some more like falluja? >> you know, the enemy thought that we would not take the fighh in thet pacific campaign that they guessed wrongcifi against world war ii generation. the vietcong and the north r iivietnamese thought we were bunch of hippies out at woodstock and they had no idea what our army was consisted of. our armies have been guessing against them from the beginning so that thought we are not goin to take that fight. we are lazy.he b we watch tv and are the jerry springer generation. we knew they would not respect uswhertion and that close quart environment. i'm telling you, you get a windowat" around you and the generation that got to -- province and photo shepherd tha generation is the greatest me american warriors thatn we hav seen.se >> so what are they thinking ini thescae hamas tunnels. they just pulled off a thin spectacular surprise at

ncos and jr. officers. the other part of that particular aspect, and i use this in the indo pacific, now from the land we must be able to kill and then suppress at the close fight down at the very most jr. tactical level of command, the company battery and troop level, out to 35 km. that is a major difference in they need to be able to kill and suppress on the land because we are a land force but the land force also needs to be able to suppress, identify, strike, sense, and jam in the air and in the maritime out to 35 to 40 km. tom: that is a big difference on how we train, educate, equip and conduct leader development, and that part to me is one other point. my take away from what is happening in europe. our equipment works. the u.s. systems work. and i guess i would say the arms dealer, particularly in the indo pacific, has largely been russian. and i think that everyone is waking up to the fact that maybe some of the stuff they have is not so capable. let's stop there in terms of the ua s threat and the

the secret sauce is the nco in interest rate -- infantry fight and the ceo in the infantry tha is currently pushing his subordinates and terminating th battle space. what are the biggest lesson the urotensis military learn from somewhere like falluja? >> the enemy thought that we wouldn't take the fight in the pacific campaign and they guessed wrong against a world war ii generation. the vietcong and north vietnamese thought that we were just a bunch of hippies out at woodstock and had no idea what our army was going to go back then. our enemies biggest get the united states from the beginnin people so they thought, we are not going to take that fight, w are gen x. we cut our genes and listen to kirk urbain, we are lazy to their lazy, watch tv and think, where the jerry springer generation, and they knew that they would not respect us and that" environment. i'm telling you, you get a window into the soul of the men and women around you, and the generation that got through and bar problems and the yellow province, and moser, and ramani falluja. that generation is amongst the greatest america

really compelling case that it was actually sort of junior officers and even sort of higher ranking ncos that most visibly influenced the politics of the men in the ranks. and they tended to be young republicans. and so you see this transition over the war. the army's actually becoming more republican, even though there's democratic opposition on the home front. but the armies themselves become kind of more republican bodies on the political sort of scene. lincoln spends 1863 as frustrated as he's in 1861. in 1862, that every single one of his western generals achieving victories and nobody because his eastern keep losing to robert e lee or failing to consolidate their victories against lee, as meade does at gettysburg and. lincoln knows that public opinion is so focused on virginia. and what's going on with lee's army that it doesn't matter. the grant's everywhere he sets foot in terms of the politics and so one of lincoln's big calculations in 1863 is does bringing grant to to take command of all of the and then him eventually joining meade's army to fight against lee is that the key t

invites me to dinner you know but when he's put back into the prison you know cage basically this this nco beats him up because he's jewish and then the officer makes apologize because you don't do this an officer. and then he sent an interrogation center in in in germany, in frankfurt and he and he said and he's determined i'm only i'm only going to do name, rank and, serial number. and they know i'm a --. you know, like i'm not not going to forget. and he says the interrogation was a joke because this guy has training manuals. i am the amateur. this guy is, the professional, interrogating him, interrogating me, and he refuses to answer any questions. he's he's he's and the integrity is like, you're jewish, you know what will happen? he goes back to, you know, his cell like a few hours later release him and he's put in charge of a of prisoners going to a p.o.w. camp. this is my lockup. but in charge of these, he gets to this p.o.w. camp, you know, in size to observe passover. and he doesn't know when the dates are. yes. fellow soldier when it is. and then one night he says the flares come