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[Assistant] Cause I, I too have done a pair of white forces. He gonna one to the lot and back. Cause that kids always forget what they got on their feet. They don't give a shit. Cause they ain't paying for them. That's the foot. That's crazy. All right. Another show. Snowfall or the wire. You got to go ask somebody else first.


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[Assistant] It's Snowfall. I'll throw myself out there first. I'll fuck with Snowfall too.


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[Assistant] I'm a OG, so I'ma go with the wire. The wire is fire.


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[Assistant] It is. It's one of the best TV shows I've ever made. But Snowfall is better.


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[Assistant] I just feel like I could really be on the wire. Like I feel like I could be on the wire. Not like an actor, but like I could feel like my neighborhoods or somebody's neighborhood could be the wire. I don't feel like Snowfall, I don't feel like I'm moving, nobody was moving like that I ever seen.


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[Assistant] Alright, the dude got shot with a shotgun, and he was...


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[Assistant] Okay, come on bro. They was trying to shoot dude with the shotgun, he running around.


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[Assistant] You had a great question for us before we started recording. I would love to hear.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm not opposed to it. Are they liking pictures and shit?


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[Assistant] I'm cool with you following them, but the likes, I don't wanna see that. If I get it, if I see this nigga's Instagram picture and I see you commenting underneath it, there's a problem.


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[Assistant] But see, here's my problem with that. That's weak.


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[Assistant] The fuck are you asking me this question for? Oh, I don't know. I don't be like a pig.


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[Assistant] I swear they be like, sometimes you follow pages that you didn't click on. Did that ever happen to y'all?


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[Assistant] Nah, it'd just be something bro, you might've like watched it too many times, they just make you follow it or something. Nah, it's on here now.


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[Assistant] Everybody should be having some shit like, hey, I don't need this on my time, man. This is a lot of pressure. And I did not ask for any of these problems.


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[Assistant] So what about if he watch like, he like, like lotto pitcher, you know, he can't get lotto.


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[Assistant] Cause I feel like that's kind of crazy if you, you get that screenshot of what you like about this picture. I think that's like the wildest text to get.


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[Assistant] I can't believe people really like be looking at this. That should be meaning a lot to life.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't even know it, like, I don't really care. Yeah. Defund niggas with private pages. We gonna start talking about y'all here soon, man. Talk about us.


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[Assistant] And the real life ain't locked. We appreciate y'all.


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[Assistant] I think so. Oh, for sure. You be seeing the probates. You be seeing the unveils. It's only two times a year. That birthday trip and right before Christmas, if they got a good gift, they got a good gift. Oh, you're going to see that on that page. If he got that motherfucking Nike dunks from last week, he's going to be, he's not going to send him to the birthday trip. Damn, so you don't think it's Valentine's day? Oh, Valentine's day don't give a fuck.


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[Assistant] I seen you post your workplace. You are not going to Cabo back to back mubs.


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[Assistant] I got a question for y'all, cause this has been in the media a lot this week. Not this week, but recently.


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[Assistant] Ayy man, why ain't nobody beat the shit out of Marcus Houston yet? How has he been getting away with this shit bro?


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[Assistant] I feel like that groomer shit is ridiculous, but Marcus Houston been doing interviews talking about it, and I think that's the craziest shit ever, bro. I pay attention to goofies, man. That's goofy talk. Amen.


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[Assistant] Like at your current age, obviously, regardless of what you got going on, like what would be your age limit? Cause I feel like niggas in they like mid thirties, like you dating somebody in they early twenties, that's weird as fuck to me. Cause what the fuck do y'all be talking about?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you not out here puffing. You ain't out here wearing the bullshit that the young niggas is wearing.


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[Assistant] I just, uh, for you, what's the, what's the oldest and what's the youngest your date?


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[Assistant] Damn, so O.G. Henry, 45, he trying to slide, you nothing?


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[Assistant] Damn. See, that's why you ain't posted the vacay pics like that cause you know what I'm saying? He ain't, he ain't put you out of town yet with the, with the, with that little wrinkle on the, on the pic. You know what I'm saying? They get that little wrinkle on the pinky finger. Yeah, that'd be creeping in the pics. We be seeing it.


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[Assistant] I feel like when you like 25, you hit a little peak in your life where you kind of start understanding shit a little more. Like under 25, you don't know.


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[Assistant] He was like, yeah, I met her and we were just friends. And then when she turned 18, boom, we got married. Nigga, that's not how relationships work.


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[Assistant] Next Sunday, fun day. Hey, Mike G. I'm requesting it. Step in the name of love. Man. Cross one in too. Get it cracking.


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[Assistant] I've been playing R Kelly the last year. Uh, he's a piece of shit. He's going to hell. He's definitely not getting out of jail, but since it's solidified, load it up. I want to hear it.


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[Assistant] We pick and choose for all other shit shit. Niggas would still ride with Chris Brown after he allegedly beat up Usher even though we found out that shit wasn't true. Nigga, you can't beat up Usher.


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[Assistant] If I'm a girl, I'm like, that's hard. Like, if you get that treatment, I'm like, that's hard for her.


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[Assistant] And what's the girl from that? Uh, My First Love? I know she's available. You coulda got her for a lease. Kiki White. You could get Kiki White for at least $200.


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[Assistant] Shout out to that oatmeal from Trader Joe's, that shit is. But if you out here with the zest, yea them armpits, you definitely using that speed stick.


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[Assistant] After I hoop, I use dial and then I have to go over myself with the...


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[Assistant] The real soap that Daniel like, you get chills after you get out of there.


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[Assistant] I'mma see if she got some body wash. If she just got the vest, she's out of pocket.


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[Assistant] No, it's cool. No, but the detergent stay in the rag. So I use a rag. I mean, cause that's how I grew up. But you know that.


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[Assistant] Alright, last but not least, we've got a question for y'all. When y'all go to people's house, what's the first thing y'all look at and judge? Go.


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[Assistant] That bathroom will tell you a lot.


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[Assistant] Granted, when people got kids, I kinda like. You gotta get with us. Cause kids are the worst roommates you ever had.


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[Assistant] Hey listen, that bathroom, definitely, I'm peeping, I'm judging, don't give a fuck. Also, where I'm hooping at, I'm definitely peeping at too.


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[Assistant] Nah, we gotta, we gotta change locations. Ah, I hooped, I hooped in a dirty room. We all have. Wasn't tripping. We all have.


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[Assistant] I mean, probably, damn, yeah, damn. Alright, I think.


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[Assistant] Shout out to him for saving you. Nah, he saved me.


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[Assistant] The Grimey is the pettiest thing I ever did. I bought some, no, somebody told me about something that was really nice, a gift.


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[Assistant] But do y'all really fuck? Like, not to be in my man business, but... She aight.


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[Assistant] My mom go to church all the time. She a church going person. She going Monday, Wednesday, Sunday.


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[Assistant] So when we was little, my dad got caught the Holy Spirit one day.


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[Assistant] I've been on both sides. So if you're on a good team right now, y'all locking in, y'all about to go on vacation. When y'all come back, y'all gonna be locked in. Y'all trying to go on a little wind street. Uh, if you're on a bad team, like I was in Minnesota, I was looking for surgeries. Like what I need to get cleaned up. It's time to sit out, let the young boys play.


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[Assistant] Lil' young boy, uh, Halliburton rock out. Yeah, Matthew. Try to get another high pick.


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[Assistant] Nah, I don't do that. That take a team to win. Like, I don't do that like, oh you got championships. Cause nigga, if you play with, if he had god damn Kobe Bryant on his team.


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[Assistant] It's like a lot of people that could be like Yanis, like it's way more superstars now than it was when Shaq and Helajuan and all them was going for their MVP runs, like you knew who was going to be in the race, it was going to be Shaq, Kobe,


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[Assistant] Type of training even. Almost like you could, like if someone's forcing the double leg or something, they're forcing, they're not getting it, they're not getting it. He should have been trained in other takedowns. If in fact taking the guy down was a strategy, he should be trained in other stuff.


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[Assistant] Almost like a level deeper in the training. Like it's, like it's real beneficial.


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[Assistant] I think Henner guys talk about this, training jujitsu, a good way to train for self-defense is train with a real athletic guy who's a white belt. So he won't do predictable things that you've been training every day. He'll do unpredictable things where you, you know, it won't be super easy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and at the same time, it won't be something that you have full knowledge of and full experience of.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's not even to say that, that, and it does, it gives you experience with these unorthodox things for sure, but that's not what you're talking about as far as what's being trained. What's being trained is not to be so dogmatic in your actions and your, you know, your, your plan is to


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[Assistant] This, this sounds really cliche. It's to expect the unexpected, right? But it trains you to think that way.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And you mentioned John Jones. He, um, he actually even admitted that some of the stuff that he does, he just, he's never trained for. He just did it. But it's, man, it's that different, that separate element of your mind or training. I don't know if you had training doing that or just a creative person or whatever. Um, just that separate element.


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[Assistant] Would you call them like guidelines? Because when you say operate within those lines, is it pretty encouraged to stay within those lines with their creativity or does the creativity, is that allowed to kind of overflow? Like if you say, you know how far you can engage there, are you saying there are no exceptions? No, there can be exceptions.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so these guidelines are kinda, you go in with the knowledge that there are exceptions.


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[Assistant] Why? Cause they're, they're dug in and there's, you know, their little strategy kinda is established.


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[Assistant] Is that kinda like those, those martial arts demonstrations, right? Exactly.


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[Assistant] Is that kinda like uhm, looking something up on Google or on the internet?


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[Assistant] And then the difference between just going with that first answer and going with a, you know, a bunch of, a bunch of results, bunch of websites, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's actually an important one because uhm, how that applies to life. That applies to life.


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[Assistant] If you have that parenting style where a kid makes a mistake, he spills his milk, or he's trying something new, he makes a mistake, and he gets punished for it, and that's how he's raised.


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[Assistant] When he grows up, he's gonna be very reluctant to try new things in life or explore certain, you know, aspects of...


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[Assistant] Creativity. Namely, like starting his own business. That's why most people don't start their own business. Because they've lived that kind of, I think most of us have lived that kind of life. Where if you make a mistake when you're a kid, you get punished for it. Even in school. When you make a mistake on your test, you get that red X on the thing. You got 5 wrong out of 10, you got a 53, you got an F. There's your punishment, your F.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, I don't know these five things, can I learn? I'll take the test again and show you that I know. No, no, you gotta nap. There's your punishment.


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[Assistant] Right, but there's a difference in this, I know it always comes back to that dichotomy that you talk about, where it's really in the middle area. So uhm,


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[Assistant] I think that it has to be leaning towards that, what you were saying. Let him, give him freedom to operate. If you make a mistake, but they're putting effort into it, that should be commended. Don't-


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[Assistant] If you get one wrong, two wrong, don't give him this trophy that says, hey, congratulations, you failed.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. Yes, for sure. So yeah, they kind of get the best of both worlds where they get, get that, that the fact that they failed, they understand that. And of course no one's just like, no one's goal is to fail. So they know that they failed. They understand that they failed, but encouraged to improve and encouraged to understand.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I think it could get, and this is just me speaking from zero experience, but I would imagine that it would get really rigid in the military because the stakes are a lot higher.


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[Assistant] Yeah. When, yeah, in a training in, in, in life, in a learning situation or a developing.


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[Assistant] I dunno, format, whatever you wanna call it. Just stick to that. We're understanding your mistakes. Don't... Like, a mistake? A legitimate mistake?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and in a way you might- I would hypothesize you might not even get the best out of them.


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[Assistant] That's why we invent rulers. That's why we invent thermometers. You know? Temperature is so dynamic. I can walk right five feet away. The temperature, when you really come down to it, the temperature is going to be different. There's no...


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[Assistant] A good example of recognizing or a good way to recognize if you're not practicing these types of.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's kind of like if you have this big like trash can lid and then you have this blob of like mercury.


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[Assistant] You're trying to keep it in the center, but don't try to like squeeze it with your hand or something cause it's gonna-


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[Assistant] So, in regards to jujitsu, this is kind of a common question, but your input, gi or no gi? Do you train both?


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[Assistant] Do you find any benefit to doing one and or the other? You know, like if you train in the gi, there's certain benefits in training with a gi.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Dean originally told me that same thing where when you train in the gi, your defense starts to develop a little bit more, cause you gotta, like,


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[Assistant] Armlock, you're in an armlock, you can't just spaz out of an armlock, it's easy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, and even holding someone down, that's more of an offensive move. Yes. Right, so if you're being held down...


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[Assistant] With the gi, you gotta understand the concept in those techniques to get out or whether it be being held down or submission or whatever. You have to understand those concepts and when you understand the concepts, then you can be successful. As opposed to like a no gi situation, you don't.


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[Assistant] Necessary, I mean, you should understand the concept for sure, but you don't necessarily have to because you could just spaz out of it or like an armlock. You could, if you're sweaty, you could spaz out of an armlock with little technique, you know, if you're strong.


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[Assistant] Otherwise he's gonna, you know, have enough room to slide it out. So you have to have that perfect control to execute a good submission if the guy's good, so uhm.


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[Assistant] They say, or I've heard, that public speaking is the number one fear of people.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah. To a degree, I mean, obviously depends on the mood, depends on the people. Right.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, there's a reason for that. I think it's because it's, it's almost like this subconscious feeling that everyone's judging every little thing that comes out of your mouth. Every little thing that you do movement-wise, you know. So your whole being is being judged by all kinds of different people with all kinds of different standards, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's exactly what you got. You're in a situation where that's all kinda coming into your brain where you fear that price that you're gonna pay and it's times a thousand because there's a thousand people there. And I think it's kinda subconscious. All you're left with consciously is just anxiety.


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[Assistant] Wanna go from zero to ten? Do a small one, you know, do something like with low consequences, you know, or less impactful consequences and just start small and, and, and go up. That's probably what you did.


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[Assistant] So, okay, micromanagers, how do you deal with micromanagers?


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[Assistant] Okay, so what about family and uh, and people who are close to you? Are they all the same? And if not, how do you deal with it?


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[Assistant] Uhm, are there, so, you say you have, uhm, low expectations, is there-


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[Assistant] Or you just don't expect a lot. You know? Like you don't expect shittiness, you expect, you just don't expect a lot. Yeaah, so if someone's making this, you know, tall claim, you don't expect that claim to be fulfilled 100% or, you know, or whatever.


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[Assistant] If you start setting your own expecta- your specific own expectations consciously and subconsciously, yeaah, you-you-you'll probably get let down. And guess what? Whose fault is that?


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[Assistant] Sorry. I dig it man, set those kinda low expectations. I know that sounds horrible. Let them be there, but let them be there. Yeah. You know? And that way, when you get let, if you get let down.


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[Assistant] Actually, you probably have a less chance of getting let down. So it's essentially you're minimizing the downside.


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[Assistant] I think I understand what you mean, I think so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, we'll go to the next question. Uh, okay, what are the top three, the top three to ten business problems you're asked to solve?


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[Assistant] How do you handle a boss that doesn't know as much as you? And they don't understand what you do. But they're bossy. But they bossy.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that- that- I'm gonna add, uh, what you- kinda what you were saying, I think, last time.


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[Assistant] It's a small, tiny side note, but I think it's really important. When you're doing that, when you're convincing or making them feel more secure as a boss, uhm,


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[Assistant] Be sure to come off genuine and consistent. Remember how we were talking about that? Because a lot of people, they'll be like, okay, that's what I'm going to do. And then they overtly want to show that that's what they're doing. Whether it be to other people because, you know, maybe they got scolded or whatever in front of other people. And then, so they overtly do it and it doesn't come off as genuine. Then it's counterproductive.


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[Assistant] Can you apply extreme ownership at mid-level management versus the C-suite level?


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[Assistant] Yeah, just like how you were saying, it applies to everybody and in every situation. It's a, it's absolutely true. Like in life, in a relationship with your husband or wife.


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[Assistant] And in the relationship with your kids, same exact thing. Like if you're taking responsibility for everything you did wrong and right, right? I would imagine you take responsibility for the right things you did, but if you're taking responsibility, I think that's when you can eventually function the way that you hope that you'll be able to function.


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[Assistant] Last question, I think, uhm.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you'll find the situation where let's say a boss, he'll be, he'll say, Hey, you know, what's wrong with you? Your workout put isn't, you know, as, as, as much as this next guy, you know, this guy, what's wrong with you? This guy follows directions. Like everything I say, he does it perfectly. What's wrong with you kind of thing. So that isn't that an example of how.


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[Assistant] A failure in doing that, recognizing what this guy responds to versus what this other guy responds to.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so if, if, if you were to think, like how you were saying, if you were to think that there's just this one formula, so you're putting out this one formula as the boss, right? And you see two out of your team of, I don't know, five guys, two of these guys are responding great.


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[Assistant] In jujitsu as well, how, if you...


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[Assistant] You know, do his game and be better than you. But yea, if you're constantly on defense, it's almost like you don't have time.


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[Assistant] To be offensive and to, and to win or to be, you know, in the, in the black, you're always in the red. You got to get out of the red first, you know? And if you can, like I said, stay ahead of the guy, keep yourself in the black. So you have this advantage, even, like I said, if he's even a little better than you or bigger or whatever. Yeah. It's such a, um.


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[Assistant] Question number one, uhm, okay, how important is mentoring?


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[Assistant] In your experience, in your opinion, and you know, if it's cool or whatever, what are some key points in doing it?


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[Assistant] Do you think that's kinda natural though to, to say from an instructor's point of view or?


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[Assistant] Or whatever. When you mentor someone or you're in a mentoring situation and that person does start to kind of catch up with you and beat you. Do you think that that's pretty...


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[Assistant] It's pretty common though, right, to have some resistance in your mind against that.


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[Assistant] It's kind of like the growing pains of the, of the group, right, of the unit. So like if you have, you know, three students and, or you have an academy of school and now they get better than you, your school,


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[Assistant] Which is kinda your whole goal and your whole motivation. Your school is strong, but...


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[Assistant] If you're still the bull, the alpha, beating everyone over and over, sure, you're individually strong and your ego's strong, but your school is weak, you know, so those growing pains kind of part of it.


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[Assistant] Next question, uhm, you say you keep your expectations of people kind of low. I don't know how you were saying last time.


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[Assistant] But do you ever call people out for being disrespectful or you know, something like that?


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[Assistant] You do a lot of strength work, as far as your workouts go. A lot of strength work. Uh, do you do any, uh, stretching or mobility stuff? Uhm, you know, isn't it important, especially, uhm, you know, for being a jiu-jitsu guy and all?


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[Assistant] Interesting, uhm, you kind of hear that question a lot, like since you do jiu-jitsu, do you do mobility training? But jiu-jitsu is mobility training. So if you try it, there's some guys that don't do anything except jiu-jitsu. And Dean sometimes will say this where he'll be like, oh, okay, if you're gonna, if you're a runner,


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[Assistant] What's the best way to train is to run. So if you're a jujitsu guy, the best way to train is jujitsu and that goes for conditioning stuff is jujitsu based conditioning. But so like if you're.


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[Assistant] If you're in the guard, like the closed guard and you're trying to hold a closed guard and you're training even five days a week, your inner thighs, your adductors, adductor muscles are going to get a lot of training.


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[Assistant] Yeah, with it, with everything, right? You go too far, it jams you up. That is true. I think that, uhm.


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[Assistant] Especially if you're doing it in reference to your Jujitsu, it's gonna depend on your game. Like you mentioned the 10th planet system. If you're in, if you like the 10th planet system, that's your thing.


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[Assistant] To improve your flexibility, that's gonna be a big asset compared to your deadlift.


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[Assistant] But if you have a different type of system or maybe you took jiu-jitsu from a smash type guy, a bigger guy or something in his school is like, yeah, smash the guy, smash, get on top, establish position, smash on top.


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[Assistant] Your assets are gonna lie more in maybe some strength, maybe some balance stuff, more so than submission. So it just depends on what game you want, really. But either way, when you just, when you do jujitsu in any capacity, you're doing mobility stuff.


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[Assistant] And at the same time, mobility training otherwise does help your jiu-jitsu. So it's kind of like a two way street. Affirmative.


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[Assistant] Do you think you can have too much on your plate? And how do you handle multiple tasks?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I guess it could be argued that surfing could have that, but it's not as obvious, you know? It's not. It may even go into like a philosophical thing. Yeah, but okay.


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[Assistant] How has your military training affected your training slash coaching of jiu-jitsu? I E more structure, et cetera.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you'd think, obviously, Europe, you know.


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[Assistant] This military vet, obviously. You take your class, and you're gonna be saying, yes sir, no sir, and... But, yea, it's kinda the opposite. In my experience.


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[Assistant] Do you ever fail to wake up early? Do you ever wake up at, you know, five? Yea, of course.


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[Assistant] How do you take leadership over yourself?


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[Assistant] You know, do the same principles apply and, you know, how's it different?


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[Assistant] It is. Like if you play it, like if you were just playing it, you didn't know Jocko, you know, Jocko Willink, you'd be like, oh, this is kind of a cool little, you know, um, like a kind of folksy, kind of, kind of catchy.


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[Assistant] But when I get that motherfucker, the mouth sauce is falling out of my box. It's, it's my goddamn.


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[Assistant] When I pick up the chicken wing, I could barely eat it cause it's spilling all over my motherfucking clothes. Like why do they put so much sauce? Why is it just not, why isn't it tall?


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[Assistant] I know, but wings, I just feel like food, like chicken, if I'm going to get some chicken wings and fries. But you know where you was going though. But I didn't ask for my mouth sauce to be put on my fries. Why did you do that? But did you say mouth sauce though? On my wings. When motherfuckers go to, uh- You're getting drained. It doesn't matter. No, no, hold on. When I, when I go to Wingstop and I ask for lemon pepper, they ask me if I want that motherfucker on my fries too. Y'all, y'all motherfuckers are out of pocket.


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[Assistant] In the box, and just drizzle, I mean not even drizzle, it's smothered.


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[Assistant] This is before I went to a concert out there. Swear to God, I opened up the box. That shit was everywhere. I was shitty. It blew my whole drunk, my whole high, everything.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, cause I don't fool around with all that. I think food should be, food is supposed to taste good without sauce. If your food don't taste good without sauce, throw it away. Damn.


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[Assistant] If your sauce, if your food, like if your barbecue needs, if your ribs, if they need sauce, you trash.


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[Assistant] But I think y'all, I think y'all putting smut on his name because I really truly feel like the nigga did his research on this shit. How do you know this? What? But I'm just saying like because he was running, listen, y'all taking away from his genius. What was his genius? Because he was able to operate a full


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[Assistant] Okay, so you wouldn't even put Usher or Chris Brown up there with them.


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's do this. How would you, what you think?


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[Assistant] We got R. Kelly for the male. Who you gonna put up there for the female?


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[Assistant] Period. It don't matter. Just the greatest of you ever.


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[Assistant] She ain't performing new music. Bro, she's about to drop after the Super Bowl. You believe that? Yea, she gonna come out.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's cool, but she's just gonna make music though. Shout out to Reese.


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[Assistant] Percy. Put niggas on. Who the fuck do you still listen to that was from No Limit Camp?


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[Assistant] A lot of niggas just cause a nigga talk about bread don't mean he got it.


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[Assistant] The girls I know here that are CNAs, they hate that shit. They wiping ass at these old retirement homes and shit.


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[Assistant] Alright, but we're talking about the overall title. That's what bro is saying.


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[Assistant] Are you too? One question I do have for the CNA is is it an age cut off?


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[Assistant] So you prefer a rapper? No, I don't.


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[Assistant] You said, when did you, when did you find out about Swedish day?


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[Assistant] I'm talking about actually doing it. I've never been a table buster or any of that. Oh yeaah, it's real work. So, Andre, I respect the hustle.


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[Assistant] $30 at Denny's, I didn't know she had to split that shit up with who or she split it up with.


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[Assistant] No, no, no. Listen, don't get offended. Don't miss the message.


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[Assistant] But the thing like I said with Instagram now, it just these social media period, everybody got these fake relationship expectations. They very much do. I think, I think me personally, I think relationships, it's okay to be like,


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I'm married, oh yeaah, I got a girl, but I think it gets too far once y'all start putting y'all biz.


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[Assistant] Oh god. What's your question? First dates. First dates? Can a nigga take you to god damn Dave and Buster's? Yeah, I don't get no-


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[Assistant] So your, your biggest thing, what I'm taking from all of this long conversation that we had, I'm taking from it.


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[Assistant] First thing on your thing is personality and conversation. Very much so.


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[Assistant] Right, so looks, money, all that shit falls, bottom tier on the 5.


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[Assistant] So you a Dave Williams from Girlfriends? They look like Moneybag, yo. The nigga that look like Moneybag.


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[Assistant] I was going to say, like, a muthafucka say 20,000 for a walkthrough real quick.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we ask them because, like, we feel like this movie's gone. Yeah, it did. It did a lot. But it's still, it's still fairly new. Yeah. And also, you never know the opportunity you'll get from it.


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[Assistant] But shout out, shout out to Nunu, but also, if you're also drunk and feeling some type of way in the morning, shout out to Alka Seltzer. We keep these on base.


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[Assistant] I focus on Ivy too, but this right here is, it get me up through there.


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[Assistant] Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the people of Chechnya began to seek full independence. By 1994, Chechnya had fallen into civil war between pro-independence and pro-Russian factions.


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[Assistant] In December 1994, Russia sent 40,000 troops into Chechnya to restore Russian primacy over the breakaway Republic.


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[Assistant] An attack was launched by 6,000 mechanized troops against the Cheshire capital of Grozny.


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[Assistant] Instead of the anticipated light resistance, Russian forces encountered heavy resistance from the Chechens armed with massive amounts of anti-tank weapons.


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[Assistant] It took them another two months of heavy fighting and changing their tactics before they were able to capture Grozny.


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[Assistant] Between, between January and May 1995, Russian losses in Chechnya were approximately 2,800 killed.


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[Assistant] This war is a major and cautionary episode in military history. The large scale lessons of Chechnya lie in these areas.


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[Assistant] It showed again the limited effectiveness of heavy weaponry in urban terrain and by extension, the crucial importance of well-trained, well-led, well-equipped and highly motivated infantry.


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[Assistant] It proved again that a society judged primitive or chaotic by Western standards can still generate a tremendous fighting spirit and very effective military discipline. This is not a new lesson.


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[Assistant] So that's a little introduction to the focus for today. And that's this Soviet attack on Chechnya, the breakaway Republic. And it's just urban combat.


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[Assistant] But the first time I remember hearing about the lessons learned was actually when I was going through Officer Candidate School.


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[Assistant] In 1998, and for whatever reason, one of the Marine Corps drill instructors had put this


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[Assistant] And this is something I talk about occasionally is that the, the, the lesson that I remembered seeing there.


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[Assistant] Was that it was when they, when they stopped shaving, when the, when the Russian troops stopped shaving, it was like the beginning of the end. Discipline fell apart.


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[Assistant] Uh, was actually published in 2002. So, we had definitely looked at-


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[Assistant] This war and it was brutal. And if you want to go into some dark places, you can go into some dark places because this is one of the first


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[Assistant] It definitely is one of the first where, where you had


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[Assistant] You know, information warfare happening, meaning there was propaganda coming out, homemade propaganda. You can see it on YouTube, especially from the Chechen side of just brutal, brutal behavior.


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[Assistant] And they were doing that purposely to strike fear into the hearts of the Russian soldiers and they, they, they, they were effective in doing that. They did do that.


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[Assistant] As we dig into this a little bit, this is still from within the FM3TAC106, but they're quoting lessons learned from the world turned upside down military lessons of the Cheshire war by Mr. Anatole Levin.


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[Assistant] And he said, it cannot be emphasized too strongly therefore that the key to success in urban warfare is good infantry.


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[Assistant] And the key to good infantry rather than good weaponry.


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[Assistant] You know, good infantry, which they absolutely had great NCO leadership, which they absolutely had. The junior officers were outstanding and...


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[Assistant] The morale, which, which he says the morale is a readiness to take casualties and, and it, you know, that's one of the things.


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[Assistant] That, no doubt about it, Colonel Sean McFarland, that was running the brigade.


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[Assistant] He had to overcome that fear that many people had, which was when you push into these enemy controlled territories, you are going to take casualties. It is going to happen. You cannot avoid it.


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[Assistant] And that's something that we seals had to deal with as well because seals had been in


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[Assistant] This idea that we were gonna push into this heavy urban fighting meant to us we were gonna, we were going to take casualties at some point.


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[Assistant] The U.S. back to the book, the U.S. will not always have the ability to pick and choose its wars. And the key reason Chesney is that there will always be military actions in which a determined infantryman will remain the greatest asset. And that is very near and dear to my heart.


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[Assistant] Knowing that it's not the technology, it's not the...


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[Assistant] First of all, strategic lessons. Military operations alone cannot solve deep seated political problems. Okay?


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[Assistant] Military commanders need clear policy guidance from which they could work steadily and logically.


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[Assistant] Confusion generated by missing or conflicting policy guidance is made worse by poorly defined lines of command and control. So those first two messages right there are all about clear guidance.


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[Assistant] Russian senior command lacked continuity and was plagued by too much senior leadership involvement at the lower operational level.


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[Assistant] Lack continuity, there's gotta be clear message that every leader's gotta be basically saying the same fundamental message.


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[Assistant] When Russian security operations began achieving results, the Cheshins started attacking targets within Russia.


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[Assistant] Distinct tactical advantages accrue to the side with less concern for the safety of the civilian population. That is something that we absolutely dealt with in Ramadi.


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[Assistant] To every soldier and marine on the ground in Ramadi was trying to protect the civilian population. And of course,


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[Assistant] The Al-Qaeda insurgents that we were facing did not care at all about the civilian population or in either buildings or in either their lives or children or women or anything else.


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[Assistant] Concern about civilian casualties and property destruction declined as casualties among Russian forces rose.


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[Assistant] Also concerned about civilian casualties but as they started taking casualties, got worse and worse.


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[Assistant] Having well-developed military doctrine for urban warfare is not enough in and of itself. Gotta have that creativity. Doctrine does not answer everything.


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[Assistant] Situation oriented training would have improved Russian military effectiveness and we're going to talk about that later today, but situation oriented training.


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[Assistant] Free-thinking human being and in this case a group of free-thinking human beings. How do you react in those situations?


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[Assistant] Inadequate training in the most basic maneuver and combat skills in inhibited Russian operations.


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[Assistant] So, you've gotta be trained up in the basics, no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] Urban combat is extremely manpower intensive and produces significant attrition of men and materiel among the attackers.


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[Assistant] Overwhelming firepower can make up for organizational and tactical deficiencies in the short run.


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[Assistant] If one is willing to disregard collateral damage. So yeah, you can just bomb, bomb the crap out of places and you can.


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[Assistant] Make up for your tactical and organizational problems in the short run. If you don't care about a collateral damage, you know, this is, we, we, we don't do that. We as Americans don't do that. We care about collateral damage.


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[Assistant] The sudden requirement to deploy to Chechnya coupled with the unique supply problems posed by the weather and the urban environment overwhelm the already fragile Russian military logistics system.


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[Assistant] A lack of high quality intelligence made operations more difficult and dangerous on the Russian forces.


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[Assistant] The geometry and perspectives of urban combat are very different from combat in the open. Urban combat is much more vertically oriented. So in, in the desert, you do have elevation, you know, you have hills, mountains, whatever, so there is some vertically oriented


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[Assistant] Things that you have to deal with, but in urban combat, every, you know.


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[Assistant] Every foot can be separated by 10 stories, you know? And so it is a 360 degree environment.


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[Assistant] Not to mention you get subterranean situations, you have basements, you have cellars, you have underground sewers and pipes and things, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, tunnels that go from building to building, so it's a 360 degree environment for sure.


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[Assistant] Fratricide was a serious and continuing problem throughout the campaign in Chechnya because it was difficult to tell friend from foe.


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[Assistant] I start off, I mean, the first chapter is about a fracture site that happens. So, obviously, we learned this, you know, in the most horrible way.


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[Assistant] And anybody that's been in hardcore urban combat. And again, I'm not talking about doing an operation with let's say one unit against a bad guy in an urban environment. I'm talking about urban combat where you have multiple units all over the place.


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[Assistant] In buildings, on roads, and they're mixed in. There's no way you can help it. They're mixed in with enemy. And it becomes very, very challenging.


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[Assistant] You do need to prepare right now. It's a lie to think you're going to get away with it.


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[Assistant] And, and just like when you're in downtown San Diego in the gas lamp district, guess what? Things are channeled onto long, narrow, long, narrow lanes of activity. It's called a road. That's kind of an obvious one.


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[Assistant] Rigorous communication security is essential even against relatively primitive enemies, and this is what the Russians found out, was that the, the Chechens, many of whom spoke Russian,


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[Assistant] They, they would listen to their radio calls, listen to their radio commands. They would, they would actually get on the radios and give false commands. So it was, it was just a nightmare for them. Now in America, we have very highly sophisticated encryption systems. So this is really no factor for us.


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[Assistant] Night fighting was the single most difficult operation in Chechnya for infantry forces. Again, this is something that


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[Assistant] We are awesome at fighting at night. We have incredible capability on our night vision. We do it all the time.


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[Assistant] We train it all the time, we do it all the time, and we're just used to being, living in that way. We're used to living in that green world of night vision.


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[Assistant] Now in Ramadi, they, they absolutely operated and they operated with a phenomenal.


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[Assistant] Success, but they, but they did have an infantry support. Usually very close by, although they were, uh.


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[Assistant] They did push and do incredible operations on their own as well.


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[Assistant] Forces operating in cities need special equipment not usually found in the Russian TOE, which is the...


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[Assistant] Lightweight ladders were invaluable for assaulting infantry. This is all my first deployment to Iraq. We actually, uh,


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[Assistant] We, we just built little ladders. We built little 2x4 ladders because there's walls all over the place, so we just, we just have ladders, have them hooked on to hum these. When we need them, we just pop them off, climb over. Like with spare wood? Yep, just spare wood. Little 2x4s.


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[Assistant] Trained snipers were essential but in short supply. We had plenty of snipers.


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[Assistant] Obscurance are especially useful when fighting in cities with smoke grenades.


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[Assistant] That's one of those things when, when I was a kid in the SEAL teams and we would learn like, hey, you gotta throw smoke and then once you throw the smoke you can run away. And it kinda, it almost seems...


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[Assistant] Recovering damaged armored vehicles is especially difficult in cities. We absolutely learned that the insurgents took out dozens of tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles and Humvees. And it was always very difficult for the engineers to get in there and get those things out of there.


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[Assistant] Was a primary cause of Russian tactical failures in Grozny.


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[Assistant] That is exactly what I am talking about. And, it's the same thing in businesses, it's the same thing in teams, and it's the same thing in life. When we talk about leadership, we're not just talking about the overall person in charge, we're talking about leadership at every level.


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[Assistant] Both sides employed commercial off the shelf technologies for military purposes. Be ready for that.


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[Assistant] You know, in, in Ramadi, they, the enemy absolutely used, you know, little Motorola walkie talkies. They had Motorola base station set up. I mean, they were, they were using it.


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[Assistant] Tactical communications proved very difficult in Grozny.


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[Assistant] Again, you can't change the laws of physics and radio waves.


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[Assistant] Cannot punch through more than you know, a couple, two, three buildings.


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[Assistant] I was almost always on a rooftop because I was, you know, my main role was usually to make communications with the various troops that were out there, army, and my guys, and...


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[Assistant] So I was almost always on a rooftop with a big old antenna sticking off my shoulder.


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[Assistant] And that's when, you know, when one of the guys needed to talk to me, they knew to go to the rooftop and they'd catch me.


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[Assistant] The cabs of supply trucks must be armored. No doubt about that.


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[Assistant] Bunker busting weapons are invaluable for urban combat. This is something that we used a ton of, was the Carl Gustav 84mm.


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[Assistant] Helicopters are not well suited for urban combat. And there's no doubt about that one. Again, in Ramadi we found that


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[Assistant] It was just too hot for them to go into these situations.


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[Assistant] You could, I mean, you could take one round, right? It's almost like a human body, you know, there's some, sometimes- Oh, you hit it in the right spot. You hit it in the right spot, you could, you could take it out, but uhm,


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[Assistant] So it's really hard to put like a, an absolute on that, but.


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[Assistant] You know, generally they can take, they can take some punishment, especially the Apaches, which are pretty well armored.


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[Assistant] But they're not well armored enough to get in there and do what they would want to do. So they end up just taking so many rounds that they couldn't stay.


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[Assistant] You hit it in the weak spot, there's gonna be issues. Which I won't talk about.


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[Assistant] Alright, now we- that was the Marine Corps analysis, and again, this is all from the same manual.


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[Assistant] But I'm gonna, I'm gonna go into the, so they covered what the Marine Corps analysis had. And now this is the U.S. Army Infantry School analysis. This is Russian Army lessons learned from the Battle of Grozny.


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[Assistant] You need to culturally orient your forces so you don't end up being your own worst enemy simply out of cultural ignorance. Many times Russian soldiers made serious cultural errors in dealing with the Chechen civilians.


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[Assistant] Once insulted or mistreated, the Chessians became active fighters or at least supported the active fighters.


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[Assistant] They definitely make that important in the U S military that, you know, you've got to understand the local culture. And there was a true hero named Travis Patrick when who we will have to do a show on at some point, but Travis Patrick was with us over in Iraq in Ramadi and he was just incredibly smart guy and


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[Assistant] He's the guy really that started saying, look, this is what we gotta do to make friends with these locals. And he ended up producing this, this actually pretty famous PowerPoint brief.


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[Assistant] That just had a bunch of stick figures of, hey, this is the local guy, this is what he sees you as, this is what you see him as, but this is what he really is and this is what, you know, and it was a great, a great, uh, document, a very simple document.


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[Assistant] In the way it explained it and it ended up being circulated all over the place.


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[Assistant] And that was written by a guy named Travis Patricorn who is just, again, hilarious guy, very nice guy, and really had a vision of and a full understanding


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[Assistant] of the Arabic culture, the tribal culture, the shakes that were there in Ramadi. And he did an amazing job moving that whole scene.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, after we left Ramadi and they were still there.


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[Assistant] Captain Patrick and Patrick and Travis Patrick was in a vehicle.


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[Assistant] I think he was heading south on a road called Sunset and hidden IED and he was killed in action. And it was...


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[Assistant] Tragic loss of an incredible, not only incredible soldier, but just an incredible human.


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[Assistant] The Russians were forced to resort to searching the pockets of civilians for military equipment and to sniffing them for the smell of gunpowder and gun oil. This was crude and not very reliable.


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[Assistant] Especially trained dogs are probably the best way to determine if a person has been using explosives or firing a weapon recently. What was good for us was working alongside the Iraqi soldiers.


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[Assistant] They could tell where people were from, they could tell where their accent was from, they could tell with a couple questions. Who could tell? The Iraqi soldiers, when we went to speak to some random Iraqi civilians.


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[Assistant] They could tell. I wouldn't be able to tell in a million years. Just like if you took an Iraqi and transplanted him here and put him in a room with a guy from New Jersey and a guy from Southern California and a guy from Georgia.


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[Assistant] So, we used the Iraqi soldiers to help us with that, and also our interpreters. We had, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] The psychological impact of high intensity urban combat is so intense, units should maintain a large reserve that will allow them to rotate units in and out of combat.


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[Assistant] If a commander does this, he can preserve a unit for a long time. If he doesn't, once it gets used up, it cannot be rebuilt.


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[Assistant] And you have to be careful with your troops to make sure that you give them enough time out of the fight that they can maintain a long deployment in that sort of intensity.


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[Assistant] Training and discipline are paramount. You can accomplish nothing without them.


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[Assistant] You may need to do the training in the combat zone. Discipline must be demanded. Once it begins to slip, the results are disastrous.


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[Assistant] The Russians were surprised and embarrassed at the degree to which the Chechens exploited the use of cell phones, Motorola radios, improvised TV stations, lightweight video cameras, and the internet to win the information war.


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[Assistant] The Russians admitted that they lost control of the information coming out of Grozny early in the operation and never regained it.


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[Assistant] The Russians reiterated the need for large numbers of trained infantrymen.


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[Assistant] They said that some tasks such as conducting a log pack, that's logistics, operations could only be conducted by infantrymen.


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[Assistant] The logistical unit soldiers were hopelessly inept at basic military skills such as perimeter defense, establishing security overwatch and so forth and thereby fell easy prey to the Chessians. So that's something that our troops in America have, have really done an outstanding job of adapting


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[Assistant] To the logistics support people being combat ready.


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[Assistant] Cause every time you're, you know, if you're, if you're a supply guy in the army and you gotta bring


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[Assistant] That means you're doing a combat patrol. That means you could likely get attacked.


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[Assistant] And so America did a really good job of getting their folks trained up to run these convoys and you know, the logistics teams that supplied the war fighters, the frontline troops.


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[Assistant] They came under all kinds of attacks and did an outstanding job. So all you folks that are listening, that were running those logistics convoys, thank you.


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[Assistant] And you did an outstanding job and I know there's huge risk every time you rolled out the front gate.


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[Assistant] They found that boundaries between units were still tactical weak points.


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[Assistant] But that it wasn't just horizontal boundaries that they had to worry about.


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[Assistant] If a unit holding the second floor evacuated parts of it without telling the unit on the ground floor.


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[Assistant] The Chessians would move troops in and attack the ground 4 unit through the ceiling.


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[Assistant] Often this resulted in fratricide as the ground floor unit responded with uncontrolled fire through all of the ceilings.


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[Assistant] Including the ones below that section of the building still occupied by the Russians.


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[Assistant] Entire battles were fought through floors, ceilings, and walls without visual contact.


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[Assistant] Sometimes they actually had three tiers. Chessians would be underground, on the ground floor and on the roof. Each group had a different task in the ambush.


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[Assistant] The most common response by the Chessians to the increasingly powerful Russian indirect aerial


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[Assistant] Indirect and aerial firepower was hugging the Russian unit.


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[Assistant] The hugging tactics caused the Russians to, sorry, if the hugging tactic caused the Russians to cease artillery and air fires, it became a man-to-man fight and the Cheshens were well equipped to win it.


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[Assistant] If they didn't cease the supporting fires, the Russian units suffered just as much as the Cheshire fighters did, sometimes even more. And the morale effect was much worse on the Russians.


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[Assistant] Oh, if the, if the enemy is gonna use, or if the Russians are gonna use big bombs and big artillery and big bombs from the sky to, to defeat us, we'll just get so close in, we'll just close the distance and be so close that if you wanna drop bombs, you're gonna kill your own people.


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[Assistant] In less than a month, almost 20% of the Russian soldiers were suffering from viral hepatitis.


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[Assistant] Which is a very serious depil- depilitating with slow recovery.


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[Assistant] Most had chronic diarrhea and upper respiratory infections that turned to pneumonia easily. This was blamed on the breakdown of logistical support that meant units had to drink contaminated water.


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[Assistant] Unit sanitary discipline broke down almost completely.


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[Assistant] So that discipline, like I said, it starts with the shaving, and the next thing you know you're not boiling your water, and the next thing you know you're sick, and the next thing you know you're crapping all over the place, and the next thing you know other people, you're making other people sick. And it starts with the discipline.


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[Assistant] According to a survey of over 1300 troops, these are Russian troops, made immediately after the fighting, about 72% had some sort of psychological disorder.


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[Assistant] Almost 75% had an exaggerated startle response. That's like when there's a loud noise and you shudder from it. About 75%.


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[Assistant] Had an exaggerated startle response. 28% had what was described as neuroemotional and almost 10% had acute emotional reactions.


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[Assistant] The Russians recommended two psychophysiologists, one psychopharmacologist, one psychiatrist, and one medical psychologist at each U.S. Corps sized unit. That's a huge recommendation for mental health.


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[Assistant] Although their experience in Afghanistan prepared them somewhat for the physical health problems, they were not prepared for this level of mental health treatment.


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[Assistant] Many permanent combat stress casualties resulted from soldiers not being provided proper immediate treatment.


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[Assistant] And they were not ready for it. They were not ready for the psychological damage that that urban combat does to the soldier's mind.


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[Assistant] Or BMPs, and BMP is like a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, it's...


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[Assistant] They assigned groups of RPG gunners to fire volleys at the lead and trail vehicles. Once these were destroyed, others were picked off one by one.


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[Assistant] Oh, this is Battle of Grazny, some facts. The Russian forces lost 20 of 26 tanks.


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[Assistant] So, imagine you got a convoy of 12 vehicles with a tank in the front and a tank in the back, and the Chessians take out the front and back. So now, now guess what? You're stuck. And then they just sit there and pick off the rest of the vehicles.


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[Assistant] Important. Chechen chose firing positions high enough or low enough to stay out of the fields of fire of the tank and BMP weapons. So, you know, the, the angle of fire can only go so high and so low. So they just stayed out of those two angles.


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[Assistant] Russian conscript infantry sometimes refused to dismount and often died in their BMP without ever firing a shot.


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[Assistant] So this is, this is a nightmare. Your vehicle gets hit, and if you know anything...


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[Assistant] When your vehicle gets hit? Or like your convoy gets hit?


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[Assistant] Cause it's trapped by other vehicles or it's trapped by the road or it's trapped by whatever, get out of the vehicle.


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[Assistant] Get out of the vehicle and take down a building. Get out of the vehicle and move to cover. Get out, but get out of the vehicle. The vehicle's just a bullet magnet at that point. And an RPG magnet.


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[Assistant] Russian elite infantry did much better, but didn't coordinate well with armored vehicles initially.


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[Assistant] So I can tell you that we coordinated with the armored vehicles beautifully. And we loved them.


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[Assistant] That we work with. Absolutely loved them and we coordinated with them and we worked together with them in a beautiful manner.


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[Assistant] Some reports say the Russians were no better, but most say that the Chechens were the worst of the two sides. Whoever was at fault.


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[Assistant] The battle degenerated quickly to one of no quarter asked, none given.


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[Assistant] Russian wounded and dead were hung upside down in the windows of defended Chechen positions.


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[Assistant] Russian prisoners were decapitated and at night their heads were placed on stakes beside the roads leading into the city over which Russian replacements and reinforcements had to travel.


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[Assistant] So you know, you don't think of that in this day and age. That's something you read about in the history books.


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[Assistant] The Russians were not surprised by the ferocity and brutality of the Chechens.


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[Assistant] But they were surprised by the sophistication of the Chechen jush of booby traps and mines.


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[Assistant] Cheshen's mind and booby-trapped everything.


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[Assistant] Mine and booby trap awareness was hard to maintain. As, as you look at this more, I mean, they, they booby trapped anything that they talk about.


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[Assistant] Book, but I pulled out some other little articles that I thought had some good information. This one here is Russian tactical lessons learned.


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[Assistant] With regard to general ambush guidance, Kozloff offered the following.


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[Assistant] Knowledge and experience, no matter how difficult this may be.


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[Assistant] First and foremost, mobilize your will.


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[Assistant] First and foremost, mobilize your will. Bring it to bear. Wake up, will. It's time to get it on.


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[Assistant] Saying mobilize your will, re-establish command and control, repulse the enemy attack, seize the initiative, and report the situation. That's some damn good advice.


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[Assistant] Moral psychological support also was a training area for improvement.


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[Assistant] A particular concern here were the mood swings that were observed among Russian servicemen during combat.


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[Assistant] So we've seen these drastic mood swings and so much of this was psychological on the Russians.


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[Assistant] The end result of such training would be to improve the serviceman's fighting spirit.


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[Assistant] Business you're in, whether you're in a war, whether you're in business, whether you're in some kind of team, train the mind to use common sense.


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[Assistant] And what they actually were was cultural tips on cultural sensitivities for Russian soldiers. And they are as false. And when I read through these,


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[Assistant] Cheshien, Russian, American, subordinate, superior, doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] One, always maintain your authority among the local populace. The Chessians are very critical of people who try to create a false authority for themselves.


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[Assistant] A so-called patronizing attitude towards others usually afflicts those who cannot gain authority through other means. We talk about this all the time. You don't run around throwing your rank out. Makes you look like a jackass.


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[Assistant] Next. Avoid unwarranted confiscations and unlawful requisitions of food and property. That one makes pretty easy sense. Don't steal from people. Next one. Be fair.


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[Assistant] Every local inhabitant must be dealt with firmly but fairly.


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[Assistant] Injustice gives rise to negative attitude in any person.


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[Assistant] To accomplish a task that you need to get accomplished, choose the most authoritative person among the local inhabitants and get him to carry out the task.


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[Assistant] Reward your people when they do a good job. That's all we're saying here.


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[Assistant] And it goes on to say, Chessians are a proud people with a very intense sense of pride and self-worth.


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[Assistant] Therefore, you will achieve nothing by humiliating them, by screaming at them, and by abusing them. You will only, embitter them.


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[Assistant] And it goes on to say, even in casual conversation, do not give orders and do not use profanity that you might normally use as interjections.


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[Assistant] So this idea of yelling and screaming and you think people will do what you want them to do doesn't work.


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[Assistant] Next, respect Chechen women, girls, old men and children as if they were Russians.


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[Assistant] Always remember that Chessians respect manly qualities, therefore never permit any disrespect or vulgarity with regard to their women.


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[Assistant] Never allow yourself to curse at defenseless people in revenge for the outrages of militants against Russian women, old men, and children.


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[Assistant] So keep yourself in check and make sure you're not blaming people for something that somebody else did.


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[Assistant] Study and be respectful of national traditions. The more you know about the Chechen's national traditions, the more you will understand their behavior. That means you will be able to predict their actions.


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[Assistant] At the same time, a person that respects the local traditions will be respected himself. Gee, what a novel idea.


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[Assistant] Always remember that the above-mentioned commandments apply to the fullest extent possible to local inhabitants, and they do not apply at all to the militants.


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[Assistant] Never forget, you are in a region where there are insurgents against whom you are at war.


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[Assistant] Now we get to a, uh, another little excerpt that I found. And this is from


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[Assistant] Soldat Udachi, which is a, basically it's a magazine. It's almost like a soldier of fortune magazine. And these were some of the


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[Assistant] Some of the rules for a soldier in a zone of armed conflict.


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[Assistant] Don't accept someone's friendly just because they speak Russian and wear camouflage clothes.


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[Assistant] This is perhaps my favorite one right here. You don't get a second chance in wartime.


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[Assistant] Never lose the feeling of danger. Or of the strength of the spirit of the Russian soldier.


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[Assistant] In the mountains, whoever is higher is stronger.


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[Assistant] Pay attention to the flanks as the basic maneuver of the insurgence is to get around your back and envelop your force. Always check your flanks.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna burn through some of these now. These are...


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[Assistant] Tactical observations from the Grozny combat experience by Brett C. Jenkinson, who is a major in the U.S. Army.


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[Assistant] Chechen lessons learned. This is from the Chechen side. Hit and run tactics confuse the Russian units.


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[Assistant] Targeting Russian radio operators destroyed Russian command and control. Small units provided good mobility and were an effective basic maneuver unit.


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[Assistant] Which we already talked about, which was staying 50 to 250 meters of the enemy was the most effective way to avoid enemy artillery, mortars, or close air support.


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[Assistant] Synchronized ambushes confused the enemy to the point that he did not know where to shoot back. As a result, Russian...


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[Assistant] Destroying the lead and trail vehicles, and then each vehicle in between could easily isolate Russian armored comms.


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[Assistant] Shooting enemy soldiers in the legs caused snipers to engage other soldiers trying to evacuate the wounded.


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[Assistant] And on leadership, a loosely organized unit that allowed greater freedom of action was effective to defend Grozny.


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[Assistant] Little bit of freedom on the battlefield goes a long way. Now the Russian lessons learned, training and preparation are the most important thing in winning battles. Urban combat training must be longer than days or weeks to be effective.


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[Assistant] Urban combat maneuver must be tailored to fit the enemy situation.


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[Assistant] Russians underestimated the Cheshire will to fight.


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[Assistant] Lessons learned from successful tactics should be integrated into follow on missions.


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[Assistant] To be successful, one must adapt quicker than the enemy.


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[Assistant] The greatest challenge to leadership was maintaining morale.


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[Assistant] High casualty rates destroyed the already low morale of combat units.


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[Assistant] And this is an important one. Failure to justify the nature of Russian military intervention in Chechnya resulted in low morale. So the troops on the ground, not knowing and not understanding why they were there, not understanding the strategic important or the vision hurt their morale big time. Now I have a couple of excerpts here.


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[Assistant] Captured Russian soldiers paint bleak picture of Cheshire conditions. So, this is Grozny.


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[Assistant] Grozny, Russia. Russian troop morale is so low, conditions are so poor, and losses are so heavy that the Russian attempt to take Grozny is floundering. Two Russian soldiers captured in the capital of the breakaway republic of Chesnya said Thursday.


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[Assistant] The soldiers are against this war, and so are our commanders.


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[Assistant] Said Alexia, a 20 year old junior sergeant was caught while trying to steal food from an empty house in Grozny after he'd gone five days without a solid meal. We are forced to fight.


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[Assistant] The two soldiers said Russian positions had frequently been bombed by Russian warplanes. Many soldiers had been killed by friendly fire from the Russian side and constant vehicle breakdowns made it impossible for them to pick up their dead and wounded.


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[Assistant] Constant vehicle breakdowns made it impossible for them to pick up their dead and wounded.


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[Assistant] In a company that had 100 men, now there are only 50 left. In our battalion, out of 350 men, over 250 had been killed.


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[Assistant] Chechen sources put the Russian casualties at about 3,000 dead. These Russians are worse than fascists.


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[Assistant] A month after President Boris Yeltsin promised the Russian public that law and order would be restored in Chechnya.


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[Assistant] There were times where more of us were getting killed by our own people than by the Chessians.


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[Assistant] The prisoner added that they'd been ordered to kill everybody, from kids to old people, not just Chessians, but also Russians. This is a nightmare.


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[Assistant] They'd been surviving on dry rations that were never enough and were delivered to their positions irregularly.


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[Assistant] As the prisoners spoke, Cheshun fighters gathered around them to listen. Upon hearing the Russians admit that they had broken into the house, one man shouted angrily, looters! All we wanted was something to eat.


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[Assistant] And I shouldn't be laughing, because it's horrible, but this is the Moscow Times talking about the other story of Grozny. The city of Grozny is cold and dirty. Again, this is some kind of a state.


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[Assistant] Artillery shells, the screams of Grodd missiles, and a crackle of machine gun fire.


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[Assistant] The only source of heat in the burned out basements of Grozny are from homemade furnaces that Russian soldiers have fashioned from bricks of destroyed buildings.


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[Assistant] At night, officers and soldiers huddle around them, their faces dirty and covered with sweat since they rarely have water with which to wash it.


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[Assistant] It almost looks like they are wearing the kind of camouflage paint that is issued to soldiers in western armies. These men are by and large normal, decent people.


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[Assistant] They believe that they are doing their duty in Chechnya. That's a little bit contrary to what we just heard from the prisoners. Of course. Now the prisoners.


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[Assistant] Those guys are in a duress situation too, cause they might get their heads chopped off at any moment. So they're probably making the case the best they can that, hey, you know, yep, we're not in support of Russia. They're just trying to stay alive.


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[Assistant] They insist that, back to the article, they insist they do not intentionally attack peaceful civilians, but are instead waging battle against an organized and pitiless enemy.


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[Assistant] This is the paper, you know, saying that these poor guys that are fighting, they should be considered volunteers, even though they're conscripts that are being forced to fight there. They might as well be considered volunteers. Russia has not declared a war or martial law, so nothing threatens deserters except the moral condemnation of the comrades they leave behind. The army's morale has been steadily improving as it becomes more experienced in street fighting.


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[Assistant] Again, there's countless documented cases of the morale completely falling apart and being one of the premier causes of the loss of the battle.


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[Assistant] Its casualty rate is falling and is able to inflict increasing punishment on the Chechen fighters. The military is confident of victory.


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[Assistant] Among these soldiers, you hear a different opinion about the war than what you read in Moscow.


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[Assistant] Many reports in the media about Chechnya campaign are obviously biased against the military. Some may even be censored.


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[Assistant] When I was in Chesney on January 22nd, a crew from Russian Television was in Grozny shooting a report for the evening news program.


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[Assistant] The report included graphic footage of the bodies of Russian soldiers who had been mutilated by the Cheshens. However, the host of the program refused to air it without even seeing it.


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[Assistant] Of course, only a fraction of the Russian army is fighting in Chechnya, but they have been sent here, there, from virtually every military district in the country.


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[Assistant] Eventually they will return to their bases and tell their stories to the rest of their comrades in arms.


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[Assistant] And those soldiers will put a lot more stock in what the Chechen, Chechnya veterans have to say than they will in any press reports or human rights activists.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. It definitely happens here. There's no doubt about it. Uhm, the way that the media portrays things is, is very wrong. You know, often very wrong. I think one of the classics that I've been telling lately or talking about lately is that they,


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[Assistant] The vast majority of Iraqi people are normal people that want to have a job, raise their kids, let their kids go to school, improve their lives, do better. That's what the vast majority of Iraqi people want. But you know, when, when's the last time you saw an American family on the news that was going


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[Assistant] To the store to go grocery shopping and then come home and do some yard work in the afternoon.


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[Assistant] That's the same thing in Iraq, they don't show that. So we always get this impression that, you know, that everyone in Iraq is some kind of militant.


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[Assistant] So that's one of the biggest points I can think of where the media can just, they just get it wrong.


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[Assistant] It's not news to interview someone that says, yeah, it's great having the Americans here. Hopefully they can maintain the peace. That's not news.


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[Assistant] This is just another little section. The Russian counterinsurgency.


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[Assistant] Operation in Cheshnia part one, winning the battle, losing the war by Matthew N. Jenko.


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[Assistant] RPG and sniper fire focused on exposed Russian troops, small groups of 10 to 20 Cheshire fighters moved in and out of buildings and the surrounding mountains to engage heavily armed and armored Russian troops. The Cheshire teams would attack in shifts.


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[Assistant] Some attacking while the others rested, so that a force of no more than 50 held entire battalions at bay, bottlenecked in the narrow streets and cities.


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[Assistant] Or the trefo- tre- or the treacherous defilees of the mountains.


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[Assistant] The Chechen utilization of information and space and their highly sophisticated networking allowed them a tremendous advantage in terms of physical combat and even more important advantage in terms of psychological impact on their enemy.


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[Assistant] Rather than a group of ragtag insurgent fighters fueled by hatred and national fanaticism, the Chessian fighters were highly trained, disciplined, well equipped, and knowledgeable of the terrain.


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[Assistant] From the individual up through the army level, the Chessians held the advantage in all but air power and fire support. And we already talked about how they overcame that.


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[Assistant] The Cheshire fighters proved better trained, equipped, technically skilled and fed and demonstrated remarkably higher morale and motivation in addition to an intimate knowledge of the hazardous terrain.


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[Assistant] So if you're in a leadership position, whether you're working with a team, whether you're working with a company, whether you're working with a business, morale is so important and you have to pay attention to it.


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[Assistant] Although both sides engaged in acts of brutality to weaken the enemies resolved to fight.


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[Assistant] Cheshien fighters far outdid their Russian counterparts in these grisly psychological tactics.


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[Assistant] Who's either wounded, I mean he might be dead, but he's possibly just wounded.


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[Assistant] Both Russian and Chechen dead were routinely booby-trapped by the Chechens who showed sophisticated insight.


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[Assistant] In addition, Chechen fighters used dirty tactics collectively learned from dozens of asymmetrical guerrilla conflicts before, such as instructing snipers to aim for the legs of Russian troops, injuring but not incapacitating them, and then shooting free-range at the subsequent rescue parties that were sure to come.


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[Assistant] Some snipers aimed specifically at the groin.


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[Assistant] Dealing a crippling and humiliating wound and a humiliating wound that resulted in a slow, painful death. And we, we experienced this in Iraq too. Where, part of it was like rumor mill.


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[Assistant] Where people would say, oh man, these, cause there was a, I remember in Fallujah there was a sniper that shot a couple guys in the groin. And then, you know, one person got shot in the groin in Ramadi.


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[Assistant] Chessians routinely dressed in Russian uniforms to gain access to bases and used these opportunities to launch surprise attacks from behind enemy lines. Each Chessian took seriously the notion that the center of gravity in the war was no longer the enemy's army, but rather the enemy's people.


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[Assistant] Tactics were devised to attack the psyche of the Russians aimed at creating a constant level, high level of psychological stress on the Russian servicemen to undermine their morale. So the Cheshins were attacking the morale, attacking them, doing things that were attacking them psychologically.


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[Assistant] Hardened by a united sense of purpose in driving out the invader the Cheshire troops terrified and terrorized the Russian troops, slowly bleeding out their morale and willingness to fight.


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[Assistant] The Russian troops, many still in their teens, were woefully unprepared and undertrained in comparison.


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[Assistant] The result of such a disparity in morale and military expectations had tragic consequences.


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[Assistant] According to one Russian participant, the men on the ground shaken and angered by their losses.


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[Assistant] There was revenge in the air for those comrades who had been killed and now you end up with


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[Assistant] And they're taking out on them, they're taking out on anyone that could be an insurgent, and now what happens? Now everyone starts turning against you. It's a nightmare.


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[Assistant] At the same time, the Russians, with their vast superiority in military firepower, failed to use it, use it to tactical and strategic advantage.


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[Assistant] The Russian's power was less effective or even disastrously impotent.


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[Assistant] So a lack of imagination, a lack of creativity, brutal, brutal war and a lot of lessons learned.


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[Assistant] That were absolutely implemented by American forces in, I know in Ramadi, absolutely the amount of similarities for that urban combat and the things that we watched out for.


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[Assistant] Because of the sacrifices made by the Russian soldiers, I'd say it had a huge impact.


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[Assistant] And I'm glad that we were able to take away some lessons.


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[Assistant] And take those to the battlefield in Ramadi and do things like protect the local populace and do things like understand their, their culture.


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[Assistant] And do things like not take out our aggression on the local populace, which only turns the local populace against you.


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[Assistant] U.S. Military of the U.S. Army Soldiers of the U.S. Marines, that professionalism to maintain that discipline throughout the battle. That was actually absolutely critical in bringing about the victory.


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[Assistant] It is, it is, it is all the same. It is crazy how similar they are and when they just completely line up. And again, it's amazing how the tactics from the battlefield


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[Assistant] Because it gave you that eerie feeling. Because you understand how devastating it is.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's, it's, it's horrible. And also, and you mentioned this earlier,


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[Assistant] The morale piece is something that gets ignored so often. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Especially in the business world, where people just their morale will take a beating, the market's bad, all these things. And if you don't prop up that morale, you don't protect the morale, you don't defend the morale, you don't strengthen the morale.


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[Assistant] That's a leader that's not taking ownership of the situation. Which is why ownership is so important. Because the minute you start blaming


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[Assistant] I mean, you're, you're just, you're just putting a nail in the coffin. When you start blaming people for bad morale, you know, it's a, it's the, Hey, the, the beatings will continue until morale improves, right? Doesn't work. You know, the beatings do not improve morale.


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[Assistant] Oh absolutely, absolutely. I mean, it is absolutely a very common problem in leadership.


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[Assistant] And focused on ownership at this level.


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[Assistant] I think that's why the book is done very well. I think that's why people continue to


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[Assistant] So, so when you take ownership to that high level and that intensity and you call it extreme ownership, yeaah, I think it, I think it has a huge impact and I think that we are the first people that have said, you know what, this needs to be the focus. Right.


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[Assistant] This is the game changer. This is the fundamental principle in life.


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[Assistant] That is going to turn you from failure to success.


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[Assistant] It's not when you say, hey, this person didn't help me and this person...


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[Assistant] When you take ownership of everything. If somebody's sabotaging me, I gotta own it. I gotta figure out how to stop them.


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[Assistant] When you take ownership of problems, when you take ownership of your life, and when you don't have anybody else to blame, it hurts!


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[Assistant] It hurts the ego, it hurts the mind, it hurts. So people, even though it's really easy, you're not gonna take ownership of everything, it's hard to do. It's difficult for people to do. And when they do do it,


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[Assistant] When they do step across that line and they do take ownership, they absolutely see things turn around.


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[Assistant] And I've, I've heard that, you know, I mean, thankfully for the internet, thankfully for Twitter and Facebook and all these things, people hit me up every single day.


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[Assistant] And say, either, hey, this changed my life, but sometimes it's just something minor. You know, they'll say, had some issues at work today, took ownership of them. Problem solved. And you're like, okay, that's great. What would that person have done a month ago before they read the book? They would have blamed somebody else. They would have shifted the problem. They would have ignored it. They would have cast blame somewhere else. They wouldn't have solved the problem.


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[Assistant] So now it is time for questions from the interwebs.


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[Assistant] I'll explain why it's not a current event once you ask the question.


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[Assistant] Because this is just a question about fighting. It really is.


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[Assistant] And you could say this at any time, these were good examples and we'll be talking about these examples in one year, five years.


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[Assistant] And there's other fights that are similar examples. Holly Holm, who is a world class.


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[Assistant] Not, not horrible, not trying to bag on her because she is awesome.


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[Assistant] She lost to Misha Tate, who is definitely not as good of a striker, but who is better on the ground.


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[Assistant] The strategy in those fights that she had was awful.


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[Assistant] Kept clinching and grabbing and trying to take the fight to the ground against Rondo, which was just stupid, she was clearly a better striker.


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[Assistant] So, I don't know, I think that might change the next time they fight.


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[Assistant] Trying to grapple with Rhonda. There's no reason for it. She's a better striker. She needs to take advantage of it.