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▶ 5:29 Jared Isaacman So we would drop live ordinance for them in training ranges to get the currency before they would deploy, uh, you know, Iraq, Afghanistan, where they would have to call in airstrikes for real.

▶ 2:25 Emil Michael Uh, you know, Joe, I did, I was a White House fellow in 2009, almost 15, over 15 years ago, and I got to work with the Secretary of Defense at the time, Robert Gates, and I traveled with him to Afghanistan, Iraq, I saw sort of the inside,…
▶ 5:36 Emil Michael I would say that during the global war on terror, right, the Afghanistan war and the second Iraq war, we were building our military to fight an irregular army, kind of ragtag, improvised explosive devices, so we were thinking about how we…

▶ 5:29 Zach Bookman Like this, I was a lawyer, and General McMaster, I, I, I met him through a mutual friend who helped architect the, the surge in Iraq, and was in kind of General Petraeus's brain trust with General McMaster, and he said, come over, I want…

▶ 5:56 Dino Mavrucas So combat tours going to, I spent most of my time in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a typical SEAL deployment cycle is nine months of training and then four months of deployment. 3 times in the scene
▶ 8:54 Dino Mavrucas And actually the story about giving Palantir to the army for free because soldiers were losing their lives in Iraq, like that's the why, right?

▶ 9:47 Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Uh, which was basically a decapitation of a system, and in a way, it also perhaps contributed to the conflict between Iran and Iraq shortly after the revolution, because Saddam Hussein thought that perhaps this is an opportunity.
▶ 17:22 Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi In Iraq or elsewhere, the proxy war is one way for them to get as much credit without being accountable and answerable directly.
▶ 22:26 Joe Lonsdale And one of my mentors ran British intelligence and was involved before the Iraq war in the U.S. 4 times in the scene
▶ 34:24 Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi We're asking, for instance, that if the Biden administration wants to release ten billion dollars, uh, blocked in Iraq, which is electricity revenue, which is the people's money to begin with, while releasing it to a regime that kills…

▶ 16:13 Tyler Scriven You know, you and I both have friends who, you know, were, uh, you know, in Afghanistan and Iraq and, you know, and, and, and, and, and difficult parts of difficult cities all over the country and doing all sorts of things, um, you know,…

▶ 11:50 Emil Michael So I got to sit with him as a special assistant, and he was charged with winding down the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 3 times in the scene

▶ 5:38 Adm. Bill McRaven Yeah, you know, I think, uh, when you look at a, uh, a kinetic problem, let's say, so a, a raid, a, a mission like we would have conducted in Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere else around the world, uh, you know, it, it is really about the… 2 times in the scene
▶ 11:30 Adm. Bill McRaven We had found in Iraq and Afghanistan, a lot of times when we went in to hit targets, the targets were rigged.
▶ 16:18 Joe Lonsdale And I want to ask a sensitive question about Iraq, and it's okay if it's not appropriate. 4 times in the scene
▶ 26:39 Adm. Bill McRaven So obviously, Gulf War I against Saddam and the Iraqis, they're not the Chinese military.

▶ 33:25 Ryan Holiday I was like, first off, a lot of them weren't old, but also the Roman empire included Turkey and Spain and, you know, modern day Iraq and Iran, Africa.

▶ 10:45 Joe Lonsdale You know, and, and, and actually I have a question along these lines, you know, in Iraq, Camp Uca became an incubator for ISIS after we, you know, we kept, kept so many terrible terrorists, got them all there, we left

▶ 20:56 Jared Meyer That death rate is higher than the death rate in Iraq and Afghanistan for soldiers.

▶ 40:44 Joe Lonsdale Uh, but, but they're, they're doing that right now in theaters of war, like Syria and Iraq, or are they doing it other places too, or you can't say?

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