About this episode

Jack Murphy joins the podcast to discuss special operations history and the implications of the war on terror generation.

Jack Murphy — former special forces and Ranger Regiment, co-founder of The Team House, and author of the new novel The Most Dangerous Man — joins WarTalk to talk about the strangest corners of special operations history and what the war on terror generation does next. Jordan is joined by hosts Tony Stark, Justin, and Bryan Clark. We discuss… Why the military selects its generals like a company that promotes its best plant manager to CFO — and why the people you'd actually want as leaders are quietly opting out The Green Light teams: the suicidal one-way logic of hand-delivered nuclear demolition, from the Fulda Gap to mountain passes in Iran The difference between a Ranger tab and the Ranger Regiment — and why "is he a real Ranger" is a perennial fight every time a candidate runs for Congress Battlefield medicine as live experimentation — walking blood banks, French plasma you had to sign a waiver for, and why a stateside paramedic needs a doctor's permission to do what a SOF medic does on instinct The tech-CEO-as-villain premise behind The Most Dangerous Man, Nick Land's archaeofuturism, and the disturbing real Sarajevo "safari" case winding through the Italian courts The SOF…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jordan Schneider, Tony Stark, Justin, Bryan Clark

Guest: Jack Murphy

Topics covered

• special operations history
• military leadership
• battlefield medicine
• cultural impact of war
• technology in warfare

Keywords

• special forces
• Ranger Regiment
• military generals
• nuclear demolition
• battlefield medicine
• SOF
• cultural fallout
• war on terror

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Team House

Books & works: The Most Dangerous Man

Places: Sarajevo, Iran, Fulda Gap

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