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[00:01:31] Hello, Rye.

[00:01:32] Welcome back to the Survival and Basic Badass Podcast.

[00:01:36] Kevin and Chuck.

[00:01:37] Today, well, we're going to talk about war strategy.

[00:01:41] One of the things, understanding tactics and how the game is played has been a big thing

[00:01:51] and will kind of help people in life in general.

[00:01:54] You know how they have that Sun Tzu art of war and all these different things?

[00:02:01] They'll have Sun Tzu in the art of business.

[00:02:04] And how to...

[00:02:05] Because strategies and tactics kind of carry to many parts of life.

[00:02:10] And then it turns out as preppers, we kind of think that it's very possible that in life,

[00:02:18] you may end up having to kind of defend your property, defend your something against small

[00:02:24] groups of gangs or maybe a corrupt government.

[00:02:28] Who knows what you're preparing for?

[00:02:30] You know, we have an audience in a bunch of different countries and things don't always

[00:02:34] go the way that you expect them to.

[00:02:37] And understanding tactics and war strategy.

[00:02:41] Plus, I got to be honest, war strategy is just pretty cool.

[00:02:45] Now, Kevin is a big fan of war strategy and war history and kind of devotes a lot of his

[00:02:53] free time into studying different tactics.

[00:02:58] You know, the military has the war colleges and at West Point, you know, the Navy has the

[00:03:03] war college and in West Point, they, you know, study previous wars and kind of, you know,

[00:03:10] know your history really can shape your future, right?

[00:03:15] And understanding how the game is played.

[00:03:17] And I got to say more and more, we're seeing lots of games being played.

[00:03:22] So, uh, I think it has a great purpose to, you know, understand that kind of stuff.

[00:03:30] Um, so I kind of broke it down into different types of warfare strategy and I just kind of

[00:03:38] wanted to jump right in and see where we go here.

[00:03:41] So one of the big things is kind of divide and conquer.

[00:03:45] And the way I imagine that is having like one group turn on itself where forces are divided

[00:03:54] within.

[00:03:55] And that might, you might look at it like in, in America, how we have the Republicans and

[00:04:00] the Democrats just kind of hate each other.

[00:04:02] Right?

[00:04:03] So if the government was trying to control people, it might be smart to have people hating

[00:04:09] each other instead of hating the government.

[00:04:12] Now they may be give us quite a few reasons to hate the government as a whole, but if we're

[00:04:18] so focused on hating each other, it's kind of hard to do, but this has been done throughout

[00:04:24] history.

[00:04:25] Um, you know, where you can, people are divided amongst themselves before you kind of do it.

[00:04:33] You have an example of that, Kevin?

[00:04:35] Yeah.

[00:04:36] Yeah.

[00:04:36] Well, I mean, a lot of that, a lot of that type of strategy is, um, is used when smaller

[00:04:43] forces are attacking larger ones.

[00:04:45] You know what I mean?

[00:04:46] If you're outnumbered, you have to divide your enemy's forces up, you know, so that you can

[00:04:53] take bite-sized pieces out.

[00:04:55] Yeah.

[00:04:56] Um, and you know, historically that's been done throughout Asia for, for, you know,

[00:05:03] millennia, you know, not even centuries, but you know, back to 2000 BC, 3000 BC.

[00:05:09] I think, I think I read, you know, one of the big examples was, um, the middle Assyrian

[00:05:16] empire and they basically subjugated Syria, Palestine, Armenia, Mesopotamia, but basically

[00:05:26] they turned them all kind of against each other and that was, you know, they're big.

[00:05:32] And then once they kind of cut it up into bite-sized pieces, like you're saying, then

[00:05:36] it was easier to kind of tackle on your own the individuals.

[00:05:41] Right.

[00:05:42] Right.

[00:05:42] You know, the British does, uh, historically did that with, uh, colonization, you know, it

[00:05:47] wasn't necessarily a military tactic, but they would take the smaller groups in an area

[00:05:53] and put them in charge of, you know, the larger populations and have them hate each other,

[00:05:59] you know, because of racism or, you know, whatever religious beliefs, whatever it is, you take

[00:06:05] the smaller group and back them to subdue the larger groups.

[00:06:09] Oh, even taking it back to Nazi Germany.

[00:06:12] Right.

[00:06:13] Remember they talk, you know, you always hear the story of, well, they came for the, you

[00:06:17] know, the communists first and then the, and you know, each group, and then they came

[00:06:22] for the Jews.

[00:06:23] And when they came for the Christians, there was nobody left to stand for me or whatever

[00:06:27] it is.

[00:06:28] Right.

[00:06:28] But that's the idea is, well, that's not me.

[00:06:32] You're harassing them.

[00:06:33] So that's okay.

[00:06:34] Or you have me hating them.

[00:06:35] And therefore, you know, I mean, I hated those people.

[00:06:39] But yeah, you know, nobody likes Jews.

[00:06:41] So there you go.

[00:06:42] And then.

[00:06:43] Right.

[00:06:43] And then.

[00:06:44] Yep.

[00:06:46] Yep.

[00:06:46] And the gypsies and the whole, the whole things.

[00:06:49] Exactly.

[00:06:50] Kevin.

[00:06:50] Kevin.

[00:06:51] That's the thing, you know, you always have to, but Kevin always fancies the gypsy women.

[00:06:56] So, you know, I don't know.

[00:06:57] Yeah.

[00:07:00] Yeah.

[00:07:01] Yeah.

[00:07:01] All right.

[00:07:02] I mean, I don't know another one you want to jump into on that or.

[00:07:07] No, let's keep moving.

[00:07:09] Let's keep moving.

[00:07:10] All right.

[00:07:11] Total war.

[00:07:12] Now, total war is where a nation mobilizes its entire resources and typically like civilians

[00:07:23] and everybody.

[00:07:24] And you're just all in, you know, kind of the burn the ships attitude.

[00:07:29] You know, you've heard the story of where, you know, they roll into conquer somewhere and

[00:07:33] they burn their own ships.

[00:07:34] So that way everybody knows, Hey, there's no retreat.

[00:07:37] We're all in.

[00:07:38] Right.

[00:07:39] Right.

[00:07:39] Right.

[00:07:39] That that's, that's the kind of commitment that total war is.

[00:07:43] And that's Germany in World War II.

[00:07:46] Right.

[00:07:46] Right.

[00:07:46] Right.

[00:07:46] All in.

[00:07:47] Yeah.

[00:07:48] And, and, you know, I think that, that originally one of the first things where you can really

[00:07:54] apply that when the first military conflicts was the Napoleonic Wars, you know, basically

[00:08:01] everybody in France was working towards the war effort.

[00:08:06] You know, everybody was producing food for the war effort, producing uniforms for the war

[00:08:12] effort.

[00:08:13] Every, everybody that wasn't fighting in, you know, in the military was, you know, was working

[00:08:21] towards the goals of the military.

[00:08:22] Right.

[00:08:23] And, you know, Napoleon famously said, you know, I can spend, you know, uh, you know,

[00:08:29] 30,000 soldiers a month because he had so many, just every fit male was moving up and joining

[00:08:39] the military.

[00:08:39] And it, you know, that works as long as you can keep conquering things and taking the resources.

[00:08:45] Yeah.

[00:08:45] But it doesn't work when you're losing, you know, when you're losing more and it doesn't

[00:08:52] work anymore.

[00:08:53] You keep giving up resources, having everybody in, but that's, I mean, you know, in America

[00:08:59] in World War II, I mean, we switched all our factories, you know, Ford was making planes

[00:09:04] and, and all these different things.

[00:09:07] They were making guns and yeah.

[00:09:09] In, you know, our industrial factories, everything was retooled for ammo for, you know.

[00:09:15] Yeah.

[00:09:15] By the first world war, uh, basically every country was, was functioning in that way.

[00:09:22] And it was effective, um, for Napoleon and Napoleon had conquered most of Europe previously.

[00:09:28] So they understood that this was a, uh, valuable tactic to use.

[00:09:33] And I think even Genghis Khan, you look at it, that was kind of his mindset.

[00:09:38] He actually applies a lot of these techniques throughout, but, uh, the cons, you know, they

[00:09:43] moved, everybody was a warrior.

[00:09:46] You know, there was nobody, that whole clan just moved in destroying, you know, very much

[00:09:51] like Napoleon.

[00:09:52] Sherman's March to the Sea in the Civil War.

[00:09:55] Uh, that was.

[00:09:56] People really, uh, I mean, there's a lot of hate for, for Tecumseh Sherman, William.

[00:10:02] Yes.

[00:10:02] William Tecumseh Sherman.

[00:10:03] A lot of hate for him in the South, especially.

[00:10:06] Yeah.

[00:10:06] Um, but he was, uh, you know, he was somebody that had an interesting mindset when it came

[00:10:12] to war.

[00:10:12] His idea was that, um, you know, war is hell and the worse you make it, the shorter it

[00:10:19] is.

[00:10:19] And that's it.

[00:10:20] And that, you know, he's kind of like the father of psychological warfare.

[00:10:25] You know, he just, he went in and destroyed everything.

[00:10:29] He was, he was brutal, but those are the kinds of things that, you know, going in and annihilating

[00:10:35] is how.

[00:10:37] Yeah.

[00:10:38] And he quickly after they, after they, um, uh, after they captured Atlanta, um, it was

[00:10:47] really, uh, there wasn't really much of a Southern military force left between them and the sea.

[00:10:53] And, uh, you know, it was basically the same thing.

[00:10:56] He destroyed everything as he went past, took all the resources they needed, destroyed the

[00:11:01] railroad tracks behind his train so that nobody could use them again.

[00:11:06] You know, it was just advancing, advancing, advancing and leaving nothing but, you know,

[00:11:10] destruction behind you.

[00:11:11] All the plantations were burned.

[00:11:14] Everybody, you know, everybody is basically homeless now and had to figure out how they

[00:11:18] were going to not freeze to death and not starve to death.

[00:11:22] Right.

[00:11:23] All right.

[00:11:24] Now you can't fight.

[00:11:26] You know, and that's it.

[00:11:27] And you can't support other people fighting.

[00:11:29] You know, you're just, you have nothing left to, um, the blitzkrieg kind of the same thing.

[00:11:36] The German blitzkrieg area, they called it the lightning war, right.

[00:11:40] Um, during world war two, it, it was just all in.

[00:11:46] And that's why I think of that as total war.

[00:11:49] I mean, they just hit from every front and that's kind of a different shape on it as opposed to just

[00:11:55] incorporating your whole country.

[00:11:57] Although the Germans did do that, but they just devastated from a multi-prong attack.

[00:12:04] I kind of, when I think of warfare, I get excited about the, the multi-prong attack.

[00:12:13] I feel like, you know, obviously if you're China and you have a billion bodies and you're fighting a country with, you know, a million bodies lining up against each other and just rolling over them.

[00:12:26] China, that sounds pretty smart, but when you're fighting a bigger adversary, it's nice to be able to break into a million separate attacks.

[00:12:36] And, and that's what the blitzkrieg was where everything's kind of different, kind of independent of its own people.

[00:12:43] I mean, it's nice if you can coordinate to frustrate people at the same time, but having separate plans and hitting things different way, that's pretty awesome.

[00:12:53] You know, it really, it, it's a way to, you know, like overwhelm a bigger force.

[00:13:00] I mean, that's honestly what Al Qaeda did with, with the United States military is, you know, I mean, obviously we're going to talk about guerrilla warfare and, and that's what Al Qaeda did is guerrilla warfare.

[00:13:12] But the fact that they were just hitting on so many different fronts, it made it impossible to, you know, kind of have a big army just roll in and yeah, I gotcha.

[00:13:24] Right.

[00:13:25] You know, that, that's where it, it kind of takes over.

[00:13:29] Let's, uh, let's keep moving.

[00:13:32] Uh, next I have shock and awe.

[00:13:34] Now, obviously we think of like desert storm when we think shock and awe, right?

[00:13:39] They use that phrase over and over again during the first few weeks of that war.

[00:13:44] And, you know, it was an effective, it was an effective thing.

[00:13:47] It was basically, you know, a bombing campaign and, um, the, the air defense systems were the first that were taken out.

[00:13:54] And then after that, it was just a free for all, um, you know, Tomahawk missiles incoming from, from ships, um, bombing from, you know, B-52s and, and stealth fighters.

[00:14:07] And, you know, the United States has a million different types of, of, you know, bombing aircraft, but they, uh, took out a lot of the generals, a lot of the higher paid staff, a lot of the brass.

[00:14:21] They took it out and, and that basically meant that they couldn't coordinate attacks in return as the American troops advanced.

[00:14:29] Right.

[00:14:30] One of the other big things was we, we actually, we flew a bunch of, uh, stuff through there.

[00:14:38] Uh, like things like I heard like wooden planes and stuff, like we launched up little nonsense things, but basically got people to turn on their radars all throughout.

[00:14:50] And then we could see where they are because obviously radars transmit signals.

[00:14:56] Right.

[00:14:56] When you see the signals, you're like, Oh, that's what's going on here.

[00:14:59] And we went in and were able to bomb them.

[00:15:01] Another thing we did was, uh, we threw basically think of like metal mesh nets over power and communication lines, which ended up destroying lines, you know, throughout.

[00:15:14] So they weren't able to warn people of what's coming ahead, you know?

[00:15:19] Right.

[00:15:19] And that, that made it a big thing like, Hey, don't turn on your shit.

[00:15:22] Cause they're just going to bomb you and you're going to be in bigger trouble.

[00:15:27] And that was really what happened.

[00:15:29] And they were able to roll through and that's, you know,

[00:15:33] I had a friend of mine that was, um, that was, uh, uh, communication specialist during, uh, for the army during, um, desert storm.

[00:15:44] And, uh, he had an interesting story.

[00:15:47] He said they, they, their specialty was disrupting high tech communications and the Iraqis didn't have any high tech communications.

[00:15:56] So they, they basically stuck him on a machine gun in a helicopter.

[00:16:01] We said, they sounds like the same job.

[00:16:03] Yeah.

[00:16:03] They said they're flying at night and they're getting fired at.

[00:16:07] And so he, you know, started firing back and the pilots like, what the fuck are you doing?

[00:16:13] He said, well, they're shooting at us.

[00:16:14] He goes, yeah, but they don't know where we are until they saw you shooting back.

[00:16:18] He said, they're just shooting into the air.

[00:16:20] Now they're shooting at us.

[00:16:23] Nice.

[00:16:24] See, it turns out you got to be trained for the job that you do.

[00:16:27] Right.

[00:16:27] Yeah.

[00:16:27] Right.

[00:16:28] Um, yeah, no, I get it.

[00:16:30] I would be that guy shooting back.

[00:16:32] And, but that also makes sense.

[00:16:34] You know, you're like, oh, wait, let me think about this.

[00:16:37] Think this through that.

[00:16:39] That's always one of the things is, you know, you have to understand the game and simple mistakes can get people killed.

[00:16:46] You know, that's, that's, that's how it goes.

[00:16:50] Um, another big shock and awe tactic would be Pearl Harbor.

[00:16:55] Right.

[00:16:55] Did that not overwhelm?

[00:16:57] Yeah.

[00:16:57] That kind of backfired on the way they thought that would play out long-term.

[00:17:01] It did.

[00:17:02] Yeah.

[00:17:02] They were like, oh, well, you know, it'll really shut them up is if we just destroy a whole state in the, you know, in one shot and the Pacific fleet.

[00:17:12] Right.

[00:17:12] We're going to just knock them out.

[00:17:14] And, uh, but yeah, it turns out you have to know your enemy.

[00:17:18] And when you do, you understand that just pissing us off is probably not the way to go.

[00:17:24] Yeah.

[00:17:25] I mean, it didn't work out for.

[00:17:26] Right in your heart.

[00:17:27] Yeah.

[00:17:28] Yeah.

[00:17:28] It doesn't, didn't work out for Osama bin Laden when he, you know, during the nine 11 attacks that didn't really, you know, didn't really like shut us up and get us out of their area.

[00:17:38] You know, didn't, didn't work out for, for a lot of those people that do those types of things with the United States.

[00:17:44] And honestly, I don't know if that kind of tactic works for anybody, you know, unless you really destroy, you know, a large portion of the military right off the bat.

[00:17:55] Well, you know where it did work one time.

[00:17:58] Can I bring up Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

[00:18:02] Mm-hmm.

[00:18:03] That, that, that's where, like you said, you said, well, if you're really devastating.

[00:18:08] Turns out that was really devastating.

[00:18:10] Mm-hmm.

[00:18:11] Um, you know, they shut it down and that's, you know, that, that's a war ender, but obviously look at the consequence, you know, I mean, it was severe and, and traumatic and it, but I, I always, I heard Truman say in an interview, he talked about it.

[00:18:30] He's the one who actually made the decision to drop the bomb.

[00:18:33] And, uh, he said that, you know, he was debating about it and he was told, well, it'll kill 10,000 people.

[00:18:41] And he said, you know, we were losing 10,000 people a day in the war.

[00:18:47] And he's like, that, that's a no brainer to kill 10,000 of the enemy kind of thing versus our 10,000.

[00:18:55] And I, I don't think he said it was a no brainer because he, you know, but he said, yeah, he really did hesitate on it.

[00:19:03] But that was one of the things, um, another tactic was shocking on, and this would be more like a strategy.

[00:19:10] Um, the, I way back they used to take, they call them war pigs.

[00:19:17] And what they would do is they would cover these pigs with tar and set them on fire and send them into the enemy when they're fighting a big force and talk about causing chaos and confusion.

[00:19:29] Mm-hmm that's, you know, nothing like an angry flaming pig coming at you.

[00:19:34] It smells like bacon.

[00:19:35] So, you know, I know that, uh, you know, probably some of us have a rep, you know, have a familiarity with pigs, you know, the, the 200 pound, 300 pound pigs, but they get big, man.

[00:19:50] And when they come charging, you don't want to be in their way.

[00:19:53] I had a, uh, uh, I was living on a farm a few years ago and, uh, a 500 pig pound pig got loose.

[00:20:00] And, uh, I was sitting in my front porch and I saw him running up the driveway and I was like, nah, nah, we ran into, you know, me and my son, I got my, my little son inside.

[00:20:10] And, uh, he just came across that porch and destroyed everything, you know, just smashed up the tables and the chairs and everything was knocked all over the place.

[00:20:18] Turns out the only way to get a pig to do what you want is food.

[00:20:23] They're food driven.

[00:20:24] You know what I mean?

[00:20:25] So the guy, uh, next story came over with a box of cereal and just started throwing handfuls of cereal out on the road and drew the pig back to his pen.

[00:20:33] But that's, I mean, those are big, uh, big animals.

[00:20:37] You don't want to mess with, uh, especially when they're pissed off.

[00:20:41] No, exactly.

[00:20:42] All right.

[00:20:43] Next, I would kind of jump into guerrilla warfare.

[00:20:49] And like I touched on earlier, that's kind of the, the whole, well, Vietnam was that right with kind of almost both sides, to be honest.

[00:21:01] Like we didn't go with that approach in our mind, but when we got there, I think we really changed our strategy and how we did it.

[00:21:08] But definitely the Vietnamese coming after us.

[00:21:12] I mean, there's nothing more guerrilla warfare than having tunnels all throughout and, you know, and, and just popping up anywhere and, and attacking people.

[00:21:23] I mean, that's pretty crazy.

[00:21:24] Japanese use that strategy a lot on, um, you know, the islands.

[00:21:28] Um, you know, Iwo Jima and, and, um, the different, different island warfares, they would set up intricate tunnel systems.

[00:21:38] And, you know, just pop up behind enemy lines or where they thought enemy lines were.

[00:21:43] There was no, there were no real lines in a lot of these places, you know?

[00:21:46] Yeah.

[00:21:47] Um, they would, if they found one of these tunnels, they'd just, you know, pour 50 gallons of gasoline down in there and light it on fire.

[00:21:54] Because what are you going to do?

[00:21:56] You can't climb down in the tunnel looking for, you know, waiting to, to be ambushed at every turn.

[00:22:02] Um, so a lot of these things, you know, been used for a long, long period of time.

[00:22:07] There's a book written by, uh, Mao Zedong about guerrilla warfare.

[00:22:12] And the idea is basically, um, when the enemy's stationary, you attack.

[00:22:19] When they advance, you retreat.

[00:22:21] When they retreat, you attack.

[00:22:24] You know, you don't engage the enemy.

[00:22:27] When they want to be engaged.

[00:22:28] When they want to be engaged, right.

[00:22:30] It's all about playing the game on your terms and not their terms.

[00:22:35] And that's, I mean, honestly, a good approach in life, you know?

[00:22:41] Play it, play it when you can play it instead of when they're prepared and plan their big, you know, their big attack.

[00:22:49] Yeah.

[00:22:49] Now, some of the things that you would use during, uh, uh, guerrilla warfare would be different types of tactics.

[00:22:56] Um, one of them was, uh, there was a big one during Vietnam was the, uh, sniper trap.

[00:23:00] And that's basically, you, you hit it, uh, uh, enemy soldier.

[00:23:06] But you only wound them and leave them stranded out there.

[00:23:10] So other people have to come out and get them.

[00:23:14] Yes.

[00:23:14] And then you take them out.

[00:23:17] So, you know, that's, that was used by the Japanese quite a bit.

[00:23:21] That was used during Vietnam.

[00:23:22] That was used by, you know, a lot of militaries with smaller forces would do this.

[00:23:28] And you could pin down an entire unit for, you know, one guy.

[00:23:33] Right.

[00:23:33] And you know, that whole no man left behind kind of thing.

[00:23:37] I don't know.

[00:23:38] And yeah, that's just a mess.

[00:23:40] It, and that's, how do you handle something like that?

[00:23:43] You know, that's your buddy.

[00:23:44] That's somebody you care about out there.

[00:23:46] And you're trying to, you know, trying to do the right thing and not leave your guy.

[00:23:50] But you know, it's certain death.

[00:23:52] If you're going out there, then you got two guys laying there.

[00:23:55] Right.

[00:23:56] And it just is a mess.

[00:23:58] You know, your best move is to try and, you know, have somebody get around and flank and

[00:24:02] get the sniper and whatever.

[00:24:04] But obviously he's here to said than done.

[00:24:08] Right.

[00:24:09] Right.

[00:24:09] That's the thing.

[00:24:09] It's not really a practical move, you know?

[00:24:12] Mm hmm.

[00:24:13] Yeah.

[00:24:13] Another, uh, big tech of, uh, guerrilla warfare is, uh, a feigned retreat.

[00:24:19] Right.

[00:24:19] Right.

[00:24:20] So, um, the Mongols did this, uh, it, the, the Greeks at Thermopylae did this, um, at

[00:24:29] Thermopylae.

[00:24:30] Now I think most people know about Thermopylae from the movie 300, which wasn't really an

[00:24:37] historically accurate movie.

[00:24:38] You know, it was a artistically it was, it was a great movie, but it wasn't really that

[00:24:44] accurate, you know, for one.

[00:24:45] No, but it was fun.

[00:24:46] Yeah.

[00:24:46] It was fun.

[00:24:47] And, and for one, the Greek soldiers, they weren't like completely naked except for helmets

[00:24:52] and shields.

[00:24:53] You know what I mean?

[00:24:53] They had full body armor.

[00:24:57] You know, they, they were all in and, uh, you know, they were going up against the, um,

[00:25:05] uh, what would they call the, uh, uh, I'm, I'm blanking on their name, but the, uh, the

[00:25:12] immortals, that was at the, so the immortals, same thing.

[00:25:16] They were heavily armored and they worked well with, uh, you know, uh, shield walls and, and

[00:25:23] phalanx that the, the Greeks used.

[00:25:26] And, uh, so what the Greeks did was they just backed up and backed up and backed up and

[00:25:31] got into this narrower and narrower, narrower spot, uh, what they called the hot gates.

[00:25:38] And, um, then the Athenians that were with them, which was a small force, you know, a

[00:25:43] couple thousand, uh, came down, you know, came down a ravine into the side of them, disrupt

[00:25:50] the whole phalanx.

[00:25:52] And that was pretty much it for the immortals.

[00:25:54] They weren't, you know, turns out they weren't immortal.

[00:25:57] They weren't immortal.

[00:25:58] Yeah.

[00:25:59] Yeah.

[00:25:59] It turns out now I'm going to have to go watch 300 again.

[00:26:01] You got me all excited.

[00:26:03] You know, it was a good movie, man.

[00:26:05] It's yeah.

[00:26:06] But like you said, as far as history, but that's the, it's kind of that all in attitude, you

[00:26:12] know, they showcase that with, you know, they, they show them where they get rid of the

[00:26:16] kids that aren't going to be, you know, productive members of society kind of thing.

[00:26:21] They have the kind of brutality of it, but it, it, it's kind of that all in.

[00:26:27] But what are you all in for?

[00:26:29] If you're not protecting what you have, you know, it's, it's yeah.

[00:26:33] But, you know, that's really kind of, um, what happened to Spartan Spartans.

[00:26:36] It was the same, you know, the, what caused them to be such great warriors was what caused

[00:26:42] the society to collapse.

[00:26:44] Basically is they didn't have enough people, you know, if everybody's a soldier and they're

[00:26:48] always fighting, then, you know, you're not making babies.

[00:26:52] And it goes back to your point earlier of, you know, it's fine.

[00:26:56] If you're constantly conquering new lands and able to get new resources and supplies

[00:27:01] sent back, but it's the same.

[00:27:05] As soon as you hit a wall, things run out pretty quickly.

[00:27:09] You know, that's the, if you don't have a long-term sustainable, you know, way to do

[00:27:15] it to, you know, keep things moving forward, keep producing products.

[00:27:19] Right.

[00:27:19] I mean, that's, that's what it comes down to is supplies.

[00:27:22] And that's another big tactic that kind of comes into play is cutting off supplies.

[00:27:28] You know, they have ship blockades throughout history.

[00:27:32] You know, it's, you know, that was, that was the whole, you know, Lusitania thing, getting

[00:27:38] sunk.

[00:27:39] And like that is, you know, anything that tries to come in and bring relief supplies, you

[00:27:44] got to shut it down.

[00:27:46] You know, you got to keep shutting it down.

[00:27:49] Now, some people would argue that the Lusitania getting sunk was, was maybe allowed to happen

[00:27:57] by some kind of propaganda for our government to look like, yeah, look, we need to be all

[00:28:02] in on this, but just the same.

[00:28:04] And it's still an example of, you know, supply ships getting.

[00:28:08] Yeah.

[00:28:09] And, you know, a lot of people said, oh, the Lusitania was just transporting passengers.

[00:28:13] It was not.

[00:28:15] I mean, it was, it was full of.

[00:28:17] Yes.

[00:28:18] Supplies.

[00:28:19] Of supplies.

[00:28:20] Yeah.

[00:28:21] Yeah.

[00:28:22] That's how warfare goes sometimes.

[00:28:24] Now, now another, another tactic of the guerrilla warfare is, is what we would call

[00:28:29] bounding overwatch.

[00:28:31] Um, so what we would do is basically have one group of soldiers offering suppressive

[00:28:37] fire.

[00:28:38] Well, another group advances.

[00:28:40] Okay.

[00:28:40] And you basically would be doing this when you knew the enemy was nearby, but you didn't

[00:28:45] know exactly where they were.

[00:28:46] So you'd advance.

[00:28:48] Well, one group watched and then that, the group that was advancing would take up positions

[00:28:53] and overwatch.

[00:28:54] Well, the next, you know, the other group advanced and you want to do it with that at least,

[00:28:58] you know, at least two groups, but you can do it as many, as many groups as you have soldiers

[00:29:03] really.

[00:29:05] Right.

[00:29:05] No, I like it.

[00:29:07] That's.

[00:29:09] I mean, that's it.

[00:29:10] If you can just keep moving forward.

[00:29:11] I mean, just constantly pressing the enemy and keeping them off guard is always, you know,

[00:29:17] a great strategy, but you have to have the resources to keep pressing, you know, that's

[00:29:22] the, you know, yeah.

[00:29:23] If you have four guys and you just keep, well, yeah, I'm going to keep moving forward.

[00:29:27] Well, you might get shot though.

[00:29:29] You know, that's the whole, you might, you might be down to two guys pretty quick.

[00:29:33] Now.

[00:29:33] I mean, next I had a asymmetrical warfare, which is kind of the opposite of guerrilla warfare.

[00:29:41] It's, um, U S military.

[00:29:46] It's kind of, I mean, that was like our approach when we first went in the Gulf war was just

[00:29:52] like traditional, you know, go in and, and fight like soldiers in a line and kind of roll

[00:29:59] through.

[00:29:59] And that's what obviously the British did to the early American forces, you know, when

[00:30:07] they're, you know, when that happened, the think of the traditional British army attack.

[00:30:13] Um, I don't know, not my exciting thing.

[00:30:16] Again, it works when you have volume, it does create a shock and awe kind of effect, um, of

[00:30:23] just, Hey, we're rolling in like thunder.

[00:30:25] I mean, you could even be like total warfare.

[00:30:27] I mean, if you imagine how the cons were rolling into your little, your, your little establishment,

[00:30:36] you know, you have a town and you're just overwhelmed by forces and everything just rolling through.

[00:30:44] That's, that's pretty impressive.

[00:30:46] You know, it can definitely take you out, but you need to be the annihilating force.

[00:30:51] You know, you can't, if you don't have large numbers and, you know, tanks and whatever in

[00:30:58] the modern day, you know, horses in, in yesteryear, then you're not going to win on that one.

[00:31:05] Now, another, another technique that kind of has always fascinated me and, and honestly

[00:31:14] seems to be the approach in the modern day.

[00:31:17] I feel like the middle East, uh, a lot of the, the groups like Al Qaeda and, and ISIS

[00:31:24] and like that are, are applying these techniques.

[00:31:27] The Chinese are applying these techniques.

[00:31:29] Russia is applying these techniques.

[00:31:31] People say that the communists, you know, we're big on this back in the day, I would say

[00:31:36] is poisoning the well.

[00:31:37] And, and what I mean for that is kind of destroying your enemy from within.

[00:31:44] Now, I know we talked about divide and conquer earlier on, but just weakening your enemy and

[00:31:53] anything you can do to kind of demoralize and, you know, ruin them as a society is going

[00:32:01] to kind of give you the upper hand.

[00:32:03] And that's, that's what you kind of got like was the approach from China and Russia and towards.

[00:32:11] So one of the big things they always feared and they always talked about in the early sixties

[00:32:16] was that the communists had a plan to destroy our country and that we defeated kind of Russia

[00:32:22] and pushed them back.

[00:32:24] Now, obviously, you know, we didn't really defeat Russia until 89 or whatever you could talk

[00:32:29] about, you know, the wall and, and how, uh, you know, Gorbachev and, and all that.

[00:32:35] But then communism kind of defeated itself really, you know, Kevin.

[00:32:41] Yes.

[00:32:42] No, you're, you're not wrong.

[00:32:43] Um, that was it.

[00:32:44] I mean, well, I don't know.

[00:32:46] I got to say Reagan had a big, uh, we can outspend them.

[00:32:49] Yeah.

[00:32:49] Now that really is what, what caused them to collapse, trying to keep up with the, with

[00:32:54] the Joneses, you know, capitalism versus, I mean, I, that's kind of a big,

[00:32:59] big play on capitalism versus socialism.

[00:33:01] I know you're saying, well, Chuck, you just said it's communism and it was dictator controlled

[00:33:06] kind of thing, which does fall into communism a lot more than socialism, but that idea of

[00:33:12] production, um, just kind of, but anyway, so there was a list actually read into the congressional

[00:33:20] record.

[00:33:21] It was, uh, Albert Herlong Jr., a Democrat from Florida in 1963, put together testimony

[00:33:29] that he read before Congress that he said was, uh, scholars and writings of current or

[00:33:36] former communists.

[00:33:38] They basically outlined what they felt was the communist agenda to kind of take down America.

[00:33:45] And then this is what they believed was going on from the writings and the papers they were

[00:33:50] getting, you know, the guys who wear the plain shirts and the, you know, the Castro cap.

[00:33:56] Yeah.

[00:33:56] You know, some of you guys who are younger don't remember that, but you had the guy who

[00:34:01] was wearing the Castro cap and you knew he was coming.

[00:34:04] Yeah.

[00:34:05] Yeah.

[00:34:06] So they had a bunch of ideas.

[00:34:08] Now they have a list.

[00:34:09] You can actually read of what was put in of, uh, 45 goals of the communist party.

[00:34:15] This was in 1963, but I'm not going to read all 45 because that would be ridiculous and

[00:34:21] boring.

[00:34:21] But one of the things was provide American aid to all nations, regardless of communist

[00:34:30] denomination was like a goal they had for, you know, us, um, grant recognition of red

[00:34:37] China and admit red China to the UN.

[00:34:40] And that's kind of like right on the cusp kind of now that's, that's kind of a thing.

[00:34:46] Um, promote the UN as the only hope for mankind.

[00:34:50] Cause that's the thing.

[00:34:52] You need to make it bigger than America, right?

[00:34:54] We had to get away from America as the thing.

[00:34:58] Um, they had, uh, another one at a lot.

[00:35:02] I don't know why I'm flipping papers, uh, capture one or both of the political parties

[00:35:07] in the U S now a lot of people would make an argument that maybe one of the parties was

[00:35:13] captured for, and I could even make an argument that maybe both of the political parties were

[00:35:19] kind of captured by, I mean, how many, how many, uh, how many people on the right and left

[00:35:25] are getting nonsense about, you know, uh, uh, Russian, you know, interference about, you

[00:35:32] know, in right with elections and this and that, and everybody's concerned about it.

[00:35:37] A lot of Russian propaganda focuses on transsexuals for some reason.

[00:35:41] There's an obsession here.

[00:35:43] That's in here.

[00:35:44] Um, they, uh, yeah, they, uh, but that's it.

[00:35:48] The political parties, the thing is, it's not hard to convince a politician that, Hey,

[00:35:54] wouldn't you like to be in charge of more shit?

[00:35:57] Yeah.

[00:35:58] And the guy's like, well, you know, it turns out I do know better than everybody else and

[00:36:02] it would be better if I ran it.

[00:36:05] So that that's not hard to do.

[00:36:07] Another one of their list in 1963 was get control of the schools, use them as transmission

[00:36:15] belts for socialism and current communist propaganda.

[00:36:20] Mm-hmm.

[00:36:21] Um, soften the curriculum, get control of teachers associations and put the party line in textbooks.

[00:36:29] And I feel like that may have been done over the years.

[00:36:32] And honestly, more so in the seventies and eighties, it was starting to like creep in and,

[00:36:38] and really do it.

[00:36:40] Um, another goal they had was infiltrate the press.

[00:36:44] Now you never thought that of our presses as having communist leanings, but it's possible

[00:36:50] that they might be slowly working in there, Kevin.

[00:36:52] Mm-hmm.

[00:36:53] I'm just saying that's a thing.

[00:36:54] Um, break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography, obscenity in books,

[00:37:02] magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as

[00:37:12] normal and healthy behavior.

[00:37:14] Mm-hmm.

[00:37:15] And the thing is that no matter how you want to take it at the time, these were all shocking

[00:37:22] and offensive to the American culture in 1963, everyone was like, whoa, that's not normal.

[00:37:29] No, it's possible we've been conditioned and influenced to accept these things as, well,

[00:37:34] that's not a bad thing.

[00:37:35] I don't see, you know?

[00:37:37] Yeah.

[00:37:37] I mean, pornography and, and, uh, vulgarity in movies.

[00:37:41] I mean, those are my favorite movies, you know, boogie nights, Kevin, you know what I'm

[00:37:48] saying?

[00:37:48] Right.

[00:37:49] Are you kidding me?

[00:37:50] Um, eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that

[00:37:57] it violates the principle of separation of church and state.

[00:38:01] Mm-hmm.

[00:38:02] Um, discredit the American constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of

[00:38:09] step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

[00:38:17] I gotta say that was kind of Obama's whole agenda was.

[00:38:22] He had a big.

[00:38:22] How many times did you hear him go out and say that the, the, uh, constitution was an

[00:38:28] antiquated document?

[00:38:31] Yeah.

[00:38:31] And he said it was, it was a flawed document because it, it didn't provide for the redistribution

[00:38:39] of wealth.

[00:38:40] Right.

[00:38:40] Which is, uh, to me, that's a crazy thing to say.

[00:38:43] That is crazy thing to say, Kevin.

[00:38:45] Um, belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history

[00:38:52] on the ground that it was a minor part of the big picture.

[00:38:56] And we really have lately shifted into the, the world, you know, and I say lately, like

[00:39:01] last 15 years, 20 years, um, discredit.

[00:39:06] And, uh, you're going to like this one.

[00:39:08] Cause this is like a Trump thing discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

[00:39:15] That's kind of coming into play there.

[00:39:17] Yeah.

[00:39:17] Um, you know, the FBI was a big, uh, at, you know, at this time period, the FBI was like,

[00:39:23] uh, you know, big push, big anti-communist push.

[00:39:26] I don't know if you remember, uh, McCarthyism and reading your history on that sort of stuff.

[00:39:31] Um, but he basically just came up with a, uh, blank piece of paper and said, I have on

[00:39:37] this paper, a list of communists in our government.

[00:39:40] And he had no list.

[00:39:41] It was all just made up.

[00:39:42] And then they started finally started getting pushback.

[00:39:45] And he's like, I have another list of paper of all the communists in the military.

[00:39:50] Yeah.

[00:39:51] Eisenhower was president at the time.

[00:39:53] And, uh, that was kind of at the point where Eisenhower was like, nah, dude, we've got,

[00:39:57] you got to shut this shit down.

[00:39:59] You flew too close to the sun.

[00:40:02] Yeah.

[00:40:02] And you know, McCarthy kind of did it to himself cause he was an alcoholic and just

[00:40:06] kind of drank himself to death.

[00:40:08] Yeah.

[00:40:08] Now that's the whole thing is America should be an open debate of ideas.

[00:40:14] I'm okay with people bringing up ideas.

[00:40:17] We just need an informed and intelligent society who can debate these ideas.

[00:40:23] And that's where I do think we need to be guarded with our education system and not by not teaching

[00:40:31] communist things or whatever, but by teaching people how to think.

[00:40:34] And as long as people know how to think for themselves and weigh and value ideas, then I think that we have a future.

[00:40:42] You know, um, one of the last ones I wanted to hit on was discredit the family as an institution and promote promiscuity and the ease of divorce.

[00:40:54] I feel like that's definitely a change.

[00:40:58] And my point is not that all these things are blatantly inherently evil on their own, but they were all shocking in 1963 to Americans.

[00:41:08] And it is amazing how much the mind has shifted and the communists are sorry.

[00:41:15] And the Chinese are very big on changing American culture and, and subtly, you know, shifting things to ease into their ideas and ways of life.

[00:41:26] Although I have to say, not so much lately, you don't hear about it, but you go back 10 years ago, maybe capitalism was really influencing Chinese culture.

[00:41:39] And, and by that, I mean like business and stuff, they were actually starting to have where the communist party of China was letting companies kind of run independently and do their thing.

[00:41:52] And they were starting to really ease off control and it was starting to do really well for China.

[00:41:58] I don't know how much that's followed through in the recent years.

[00:42:02] Um, they've had so much craziness going on with their construction and, and building loans and scandals with that.

[00:42:10] Uh, another thing that, that hits on there is, is that like where we end up funding everybody.

[00:42:20] That is amazing to me.

[00:42:22] The U S government just giving money to all these people to, you know, bribe warlords and whatever else in the middle East and, and different things like that.

[00:42:32] And trying to stomp everything.

[00:42:34] It kind of doesn't end well.

[00:42:37] Um, we, we end up funding our enemies and I feel like that's definitely a tactic that really is hurt the American cause.

[00:42:46] Um, I don't know.

[00:42:47] That's what I got on warfare, Kevin.

[00:42:49] Yeah.

[00:42:50] Yeah.

[00:42:51] Now, a lot of this stuff I think can be, uh, be applied to, um, you know, your personal life, you know, how you deal with things day to day.

[00:43:00] One of the things that you had mentioned on that, I just wanted to touch on was, was, uh, uh, adultery and divorce, normalizing that sort of stuff.

[00:43:09] Yeah.

[00:43:09] You know, I personally, you know, I personally, and I, I've taken this advice and used it multiple times.

[00:43:16] But if you know somebody that cheats on their wife and you deal with them, you have to understand that this is somebody that lied to somebody that made all these promises to, you know, in front of all their friends and family in front of God, they're not going to have any problem lying to you.

[00:44:02] Right.

[00:44:32] And there's no God.

[00:44:33] It's so much a better family core.

[00:44:37] And, and it's just nicer.

[00:44:39] It's a better world to live in when we all trust each other and are honest.

[00:44:43] It's all I'm saying.

[00:44:44] Right.

[00:44:44] Now I know me and Kevin can maybe be honest to a fault because maybe, you know, I've always heard people say what the next time you have a thought, maybe you should have just let it go instead of saying it.

[00:44:57] Maybe we don't need to say it every time, but you know how it is sometimes, you know, you got to say it and, and that's it.

[00:45:05] But hopefully, you know, a little more prepared out of this, a little more like understanding maybe how you're being manipulated, how, how to approach the world and how things might shape up and maybe a better understanding of what might be coming in the future.

[00:45:21] So with that, Kevin, anything else?

[00:45:25] We're there.

[00:45:25] All right.

[00:45:26] So questions, concerns, show ideas, email us at prepping badass at gmail.com.

[00:45:32] Otherwise, I would say stay safe and we will talk to you guys next week.