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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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