wonder how they balance the needs of soldiers with the needs of capitol hill former brigadier general tony tait out for the united states army and the author of direct fire the fort and his captain jake may he again thriller series joined us recently to get his take on reforms needed within the us armed services and after soldiers return home from war always a pleasure having you sort of thank you so much for coming on beard. i wanted to start with an interesting interesting question from an interesting man i don't know if you're familiar of the medal of honor winner was a major marine corps major general smedley butler who these are back in the one nine hundred for those of you that don't know and he authored a book called war is a rocket and in that book he wrote i spent thirty three years and four months in active military service and during that period i spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for big business for wall street and the bankers i wanted to ask you in your experience is that still a problem today you know does that kind of money corporate influence that we know pulls s

as with the needs of capitol hill former brigadier general tony tait out for the united states army i am the author of direct fire the fort and his captain jake and he again thriller series joined us recently to get his take on reforms needed within the us armed services and after soldiers return home from war always a pleasure having you serve thank you so much for coming on the beard. i wanted to start with an interesting interesting question from an interesting man i don't know if you're familiar of the medal of honor winner was a major marine corps major general smedley butler who back in the one nine hundred for those of you that don't know and he authored a book called war is a rocket and in that book he wrote i spent thirty three years and four months in active military service and during that period i spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for big business for wall street and the bankers i wanted to ask you in in your experience is that still a problem today you know does that kind of money corporate influence that we know pull so many strings in washington you know