Jocko Podcast 197 - Truppenfuhrung with Andrew Paul

[mynewunit]

197: TIME, HISTORY, AND KNOWLEDGE, ARE ALL CONNECTED. TRUPPENFUHRUNG: WITH ANDREW PAUL.


Podcast 197 page

0:00:00 – Opening
0:06:57 – Truppenfuhrung. Leading Troops.
0:07:30 – War is an exercise in creativity. Unlimited. Always changing.
0:09:00 – Cannot be fixed by regulations.
0:10:00 – Simplicity of conduct. Character outweighs intellect.
0:12:48 – Leaders = decisive, responsibility, not emotional
0:13:30 – Relationships. They will follow if you care for you men.
0:19:10 – The worth of men is the decisive factor. Thinking and Acting Fighters
0:23:10 – Do hard stuff together
0:29:00 – The Full Power. Stealing other’s power.
0:31:30 – Decisive Action.
0:37:10 – Leadership.
0:40:00 – Success will be recognized tomorrow. Metrics.
0:46:40 – You are not going to know everything
0:47:30 – Flexibility. The mission and situation change.
0:54:20 – The defense chooses the battle location.
0:56:20 – Offense to Defense. Delaying action.
1:01:50 – Communications, Information, Reports. Detail. Assumed vs. Confirmed.
1:12:00 – Battle is the best way to evaluate the enemy.
1:14:00 – Simple, Logical Decision making.
1:18:10 – Orders committed to paper.
1:22:30 – Terrain not map. The more pressing the shorter the order. Over communicate.
1:23:50 – Sarah Armstrong Shout out.
1:29:10 – Sequence 5 Paragraph SMEAC Situation/Mission/Execution/Admin-Logistics/Command-Signal SMEAC
1:35:00 – Training and Preparation. Warning Order
1:40:20 – Commander with the Troops
1:42:00 – The attack. Frontal and Flank. Flanking is awesome.
1:47:50 – Execution. Drive through to the Artillery. Cooperation.
1:51:30 – Friction and mistakes. Discipline through Trust.
1:52:04 – Closing thoughts and take-aways.
1:53:05 – How to stay on THE PATH.
2:06:30 – Closing Gratitude.

[humortruthwin]

Great cast of pod, gents. And great recap, Unit!
What some call "squared away" I tend to call "O.C.D.-Certified."
This seems to be BOTH.
Dude, for a self-proclaimed and sometimes abashedly hardcore word nerd like me, the concise and lucid writing (similarly stated by both Jocko and Andy) truly was right on the money.

0:10:00 - "Simplicity of conduct. Character outweighs intellect." As history shows, the blue collar heroes almost always outperform the eggheads in combat. I would say "ALWAYS" if not for the less than 1% of Einsteins that tilt the bell curve. Not just outperform, but with integrity and self-sacrifice.

0:40:00 - "Success will be recognized tomorrow. Metrics." (SEE ALSO: "I don't know if I lost any weight but now my pants are falling off me"...and the patient calculus exhibited in the movie Moneyball.
I guess it's human nature to expect immediate results according to each person's distorted presuppositional biases.

1:18:10 - "Orders committed to paper." People would do better in life if they wrote more stuff down.
In my fam, I jokingly (kinda/not really jokingly) say, "Winners make lists."
Rarely some have said to me, "Oh, so I'm a loser cuz I don't make lists?" It's usually asked by someone's freshly pricked ego.
Not only that, but as a writer, I get next-level nerdiness with it: I write date AND TIME before just about every time I write something. It actually feels like an annoying habit/compulsion sometimes but I suppose if there was a murder trial and a prosecuting attorney interrogated me as to where I was at "such-and-such time and place," I'd at least have a Post-It note or scrap paper to prove my ensuing answer. Granted, emails and texts and the like are automatic documentation (auto-doc), but TO-DO LISTS must use pen and paper to reap the benefits of the the mind-muscle connection. It's a proven way to increase a task's or a mission's likelihood of not mere completion but also victory.
For example: "10/6/2019 Sunday 11AM church service. (Pastor's name....outside temp; note suspicious characters/possible terrorists; Bible verse applications; Mow lawn; etc.)

1:22:30 - "Terrain not map...more pressing: shorter order. Over communicate." NAILED IT. Armchair QB's have their omnipotent maps, aka: my Maps App, but I'm stuck in traffic due to a road rage drive-by.
John Maxwell or someone said, "For mission and vision, you CAN'T over communicate." As a comm major in college, I shan't split hairs of how "over" implies "too much," but better safe than sorry.
In the electrical field, we error on side of ordering too much wire vs. not enough. Paying Union Electricians top buck & some copper wire at $7/ft, I like hearing "Better looking at it than looking for it."

1:42:00 - "The attack. Frontal and Flank. Flanking is awesome." Super-agreed. Flanking applications in real life: KEEP IT COMING.
This cast of the pod has sincerely and immediately helped me in the area of flanking as a relational and conversational tool--not necessarily to "attack" in order to harm, but definitely to win-win or straight up selfishly win...so I guess it's an attack of sorts.

Anyway...my two cents for what it's worth, but all in all 'twas a pleasant deviation from the grisly and humbling war accounts I look forward to hearing on "The Cast of Pod: Jocko."