Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - THE FUTURE WAR： FOURTH OF JULY SPECIAL

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00:00:30.000 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.

00:00:40.680 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

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00:00:50.240 Christ is king.

00:00:51.500 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

00:00:55.740 It goes well beyond what was needed in order to declare independence.

00:00:59.640 It establishes a philosophical basis for a civil democracy in which all persons are guaranteed rights by virtue of their personhood.

00:01:11.200 Your husbands, your children of all sorts, have kept from America, so far, remember that word, so far, the horrors of war.

00:01:28.460 We must continue to keep it.

00:01:32.800 May we profit for the experiences of our brother Republicans across the water and go forward steadily, avoiding all wild extremes.

00:01:41.020 May our ultra-conservatives remember that the rule of the Bourbons brought on the revolution. 0.95

00:01:45.440 And may our would-be revolutionaries remember that no bourbon was ever such a dangerous enemy of the people and defeat him as the professed friend of both, Robespierre.

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00:02:40.780 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's special edition of Human Events Daily.

00:02:45.260 Today is the 4th of July, 2024.

00:02:49.740 Anno Domini.

00:02:51.480 Today is Independence Day.

00:02:54.000 And so what should we be thinking about today on Independence Day?

00:02:59.020 What should we be reflecting on?

00:03:00.620 And so we understand that what were the ideals of the original Independence Day, the ideals of 1776, the ideals of America back then?

00:03:10.440 Well, that was the ideal of the revolutionary spirit of those Americans, the revolutionary spirit, Washington, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson.

00:03:18.700 But they also the understanding that this was a bloody and brutal war, a war that took the lives of many of the signers of the declaration that also took the lives of many of their families, even many of their sons on those British torture ships, the prison ships.

00:03:35.620 They knew that by unplugging from the global system, the system of global empire and forming America as a nation state would be America's birthright.

00:03:46.720 But of course, that's not the America that we have today, because the America that we have today is intrinsically linked to a global hegemony around the world.

00:03:56.280 That America and that America and that system of globalism is now coming into contention with the rise of multipolarity and the rise of the global south in conjunction with China and Russia and the rise of the BRICS nations.

00:04:12.220 The question before all of us, will this spill over into a global conflict?

00:04:19.900 We know that Joe Biden is not all there.

00:04:25.060 We know that Joe Biden is in a situation where he is not able to call the shots for this government, that he's not able to defend freedom.

00:04:37.600 If you are one of America's adversaries, you got a free shot on goal right now.

00:04:42.620 So what does that look like?

00:04:43.960 What is the future of warfare?

00:04:45.540 What future threats are there?

00:04:47.300 How do we prepare for those threats?

00:04:51.360 What is the future of war?

00:04:53.400 Well, we've put together a program here.

00:04:55.640 We're joined by various theme guests.

00:04:59.500 Eric Prince, the military historian, Patrick K. O'Donnell, where we're going to be talking about those specific steps.

00:05:07.600 What we should expect to see next in the coming threat.

00:05:11.200 Because the truth is this, folks.

00:05:14.380 Independence is not guaranteed.

00:05:17.460 Freedom itself is not guaranteed.

00:05:20.080 That freedom must be fought for.

00:05:22.220 And once achieved, it must be defended.

00:05:25.260 And that means constant and eternal vigilance.

00:05:30.560 As Jefferson taught us, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

00:05:35.940 Internal and external.

00:05:39.540 Foreign and domestic.

00:05:41.300 And once you understand that, once you understand what we're up against, what you understand that the stakes couldn't be higher, then you will be ready to maintain your independence forever.

00:05:53.560 Stay tuned.

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00:06:40.260 Fourth of July special.

00:06:42.380 Very excited to bring on once again to Human Events, Eric Prince.

00:06:47.820 His podcast is off leash.

00:06:49.980 He's the author of Civilian Warriors.

00:06:52.800 Eric, thanks so much for joining us again.

00:06:55.380 Nice to be here, Jack.

00:06:56.140 How are you?

00:06:58.240 Well, Eric, I'm concerned.

00:06:59.620 We all saw that debate last week.

00:07:01.360 We saw our Commander-in-Chief the way you talked before and about your hypothesis that we're living through a step change in military warfare, a step change in warfare itself around the world.

00:07:16.840 And with the status, the current status of the leader of our military, the leader of our government being what it is, it seems that the warning that you put out just a few weeks ago might be coming all too real here.

00:07:33.040 And as people I know are celebrating their 4th of July, they got the hot dogs, they got the kids running around the barbecue.

00:07:38.320 They're going to be doing some fireworks later tonight.

00:07:40.480 I have to say I'm concerned.

00:07:43.580 Walk me through, if you're our adversaries right now and you saw that, what are some of the things that they could be doing next?

00:07:53.800 Look, our problems start from the top.

00:07:56.580 When you have leadership that does not inspire any kind of confidence or any kind of fear, any kind of confidence in our own people and any kind of fear from our opponents, it means they start to get creative with, let's say, adventurism.

00:08:10.420 And when you see the massive change in how warfare can be done with lessons learned from the Ukraine-Russia battle, where you truly democratize the ability to deliver precision weaponry out to 10, 20, 30 kilometers.

00:08:29.360 And then when Russia invaded in February of 2022, old weapons, new weapons were used in a desperate attempt to stop the onslaught. 0.52

00:08:45.900 And one of the most innovative things was taking a small racing drone, a 7 or a 10-inch racing drone with the little goggles that you wear called an FPV drone.

00:08:55.180 And they took either a grenade, an RPG round, or a fabricated beer can-sized charge that you could then drive into the enemy target.

00:09:09.980 You know, the U.S. military spends hundreds of thousands of dollars per missile to deliver precision weapon onto a target.

00:09:19.000 And now you can do that with a $500 to $1,000 racing drone out farther than what a U.S. anti-tank missile fires for a fraction of the cost.

00:09:31.120 So true firepower has been democratized.

00:09:36.460 And even Israel, as much as they have been on guard with very high-end air defenses from the Iron Dome to literally shoot down incoming rockets, to knock them out of the sky, to their anti-ballistic missile capability.

00:09:52.180 But with the loitering munitions, effectively a higher-end kamikaze drone that Hezbollah has been launching, they're only intercepting 50% of those.

00:10:03.880 And so they might have built a magnificent fence, but the gap at the bottom of that fence are the smaller, cheaper drones with 1 to 5 to 10-pound warhead capabilities.

00:10:15.200 And it's causing real problems and real damage to the IDF forces.

00:10:19.920 And so amplify that.

00:10:22.300 So that's obviously the Iranians sponsoring, stimulating Hezbollah to do that on the northern border. 0.80

00:10:27.660 But it doesn't take much imagination to see where else you can take that capability and make the billions of dollars of high-end weapons obsolete.

00:10:36.960 What the Houthis have done in Yemen, again, with Iranian sponsorship, they're using a Shahid-136 drone, which is $20,000 to $30,000 in cost.

00:10:49.320 They've launched hundreds of those at U.S. Navy, British, French, Italian warships, trying to keep the Red Sea open, which has been a total fail.

00:10:59.300 The U.S. Navy has acknowledged that they've spent a billion dollars in missiles.

00:11:05.080 That's also a false number because it's a billion dollars based on costs from 20 years ago when they bought those missiles, not the $4 or $5 billion that they're going to have to spend to replace those missiles.

00:11:17.800 So it's really bad math.

00:11:19.360 It's unsustainable.

00:11:20.600 And it's a complete fail of the Navy, our beloved Navy.

00:11:23.980 I know you and I were both in the Navy.

00:11:26.020 And the mission of the Navy is power projection and sea control.

00:11:29.560 And right now they have lost sea control because you have one of the major waterways, one of the major shipping ways of the world completely shut off because of a bunch of dudes in flip-flops that have been supercharged by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. 0.98

00:11:44.860 And the administration lacks the spine or the resoluteness of purpose to school these guys.

00:11:55.460 And really, the Navy has also lost the innovation or the ability to think creatively of how do you smash this unconventional asymmetric threat as practically and cheaply as possible?

00:12:09.960 Because the Navy's answer is just shooting more $1 and $2 and $5 million precision missiles.

00:12:16.720 And that's another reason the U.S. military has made itself more obsolete in these kind of theaters because they provide only the most expensive solution, which over the duration of Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan has proven that the high-cost DOD approach is clearly not solving and putting these fires out.

00:12:38.420 And what we're seeing now is potentially the first naval blockade that's ever been successfully conducted from land.

00:12:49.800 And in addition, an asymmetric, as you say, naval—just on that question, actually, Eric, let me pick your brain for a little bit.

00:13:00.120 What would you suggest to the secretary or to the COCOM command?

00:13:05.460 If you were looking at that situation yourself, at that threat package, rather than missiles, what are some possible counterinsurgency or counter-asymmetric methods that could be used, other than, say, electronic warfare, which doesn't quite seem to be there yet?

00:13:23.260 Look, the Houthis are going to continue to shoot missiles until someone goes and puts a boot on their neck.

00:13:31.720 And there's historical corollary for how this was dealt with in the past.

00:13:36.920 In the 60s, actually, Egypt invaded Yemen, deposed the monarchy.

00:13:41.340 And that really ticked off the Brits, and it really ticked off the Saudis. 0.90

00:13:46.760 And they hired David Sterling, who was the founder of the SAS, the British SAS.

00:13:51.600 And he took a 30-man or so unit and went and worked with the other Yemeni tribes, the Sunnis, and supercharged their capability. 0.93

00:14:01.420 And they pushed Egypt out. 0.97

00:14:04.180 There is a way to do that now that would not require any U.S. forces and could solve that problem for a fraction of the economic damage being done.

00:14:15.320 Egypt alone is losing $800 million a month just from no toll fees from the ships not going to the Suez, let alone the other knock-on economic damage.

00:14:25.540 So, again, you've allowed a rogue state of Iran working through their proxy of the Yemeni Houthis to shut off one of the major waterways.

00:14:36.860 In fact, Jack, they haven't even – it's not only that they shot ships in the Red Sea or in the Gulf of Aden.

00:14:42.520 They've actually – two weeks ago, they hit a ship that was in the Mediterranean.

00:14:45.460 So, they are striking targets at very long distance with the Iranian-provided weapons until someone goes and smashes them in the face for doing so. 0.70

00:14:56.460 They will continue to do so, and they're going to feel ascendant, and they will feel even more adventurous.

00:15:02.440 And, you know, deterrence matters.

00:15:04.680 Deterrence and credibility matters.

00:15:05.980 Deterrence I guess one of the reasons my podcast is called Off Leash is because our military should be like a big, scary attack dog waiting to be let off leash.

00:15:18.140 And, sadly, they're not that scary anymore because we've over-lawyered and hyper-bureaucratized the command structure to where we have a military that doesn't want to hunt.

00:15:29.260 Now, you mentioned the strikes on ships in the Mediterranean, the targeting of these vessels.

00:15:39.680 Do you think at some point – and this is something that I think about in – and we'll talk more after this over the break – in other cases.

00:15:46.260 But do you think that these types of drones, drone swarm attacks, or these other various types of – even if they – does it create a threat to the naval vessels themselves?

00:16:03.160 Sure.

00:16:04.380 Well, so the U.S. is – the U.S. so far, that we know of, has had a success rate of knocking down all these incoming aerial drones.

00:16:13.380 The Russians have not had as great a success in dealing with naval drones.

00:16:20.340 And, in fact, the innovated, effectively hot-rodded jet skis that the Ukrainians have been using has driven the Russian Navy out of the western half of the Black Sea. 0.98

00:16:29.860 That's a fact.

00:16:31.480 And they did that cheaply and asymmetrically, and that worked.

00:16:37.460 Sea drones have also been used against commercial vessels with effect.

00:16:43.380 Just off of Yemen now.

00:16:44.860 So the look of a U.S. Navy vessel getting hit by a cruise missile, a drone, a ballistic missile, is going to be a very, very bad look.

00:16:58.080 And the fact that we continue to put sailors in harm's way and really preventing them from shooting back and hammering effectively, to me, is disgusting.

00:17:06.320 And certainly the first thing that the U.S. could do – because the Yemenis are not targeting all these drones and missiles and everything else from land alone.

00:17:18.020 They have – there are Iranian naval vessels.

00:17:21.560 There has been an IRGC intel vessel floating around that area, and those ships need to go away.

00:17:28.620 In the 80s, when the Iranians were mining the Persian Gulf and blocking oil ships, oil-carrying vessels from exporting crude from Kuwait and from Saudi Arabia,

00:17:42.520 Reagan took very decisive action over a few days and annihilated pretty much all of the Iranian Navy that cared to put to sea and taught them a lesson. 0.99

00:17:53.480 That kind of lesson needs to be taught to the Houthis and the IRGC again in a most decisive, most kinetic manner. 0.97

00:17:59.600 Folks, we're talking with Eric Prince.

00:18:04.980 We've got a quick break coming up.

00:18:06.620 This is the 4th of July special.

00:18:08.340 We're talking about the future war.

00:18:12.560 When I grew up in the hood, I rolled with bloods, and them boys had a saying. 0.99

00:18:18.240 You can't be listening to all that slappy whack, trimatazala, it's a bam ship, nippy bam bam, like Human Events with Jack Posobiec.

00:18:25.660 Jack, it's live, Independence Day, 4th of July special, the future war.

00:18:34.900 We're talking about the impact of drones, naval drones, and air drones, particularly on naval air,

00:18:44.200 because as our guest Eric Prince has been walking us through, they've been devastating on many fields, including in the Red Sea.

00:18:52.580 Now, Eric, as you and I were discussing, one piece that I want to add on there as well is that the U.S. Navy has already in the past faced asymmetric threat in the Middle East,

00:19:06.100 in that very same neighborhood, because this was the Gulf of Aden attack on the coal that took place 24 years ago.

00:19:18.040 Why is it that we're still here a quarter of a century later worrying about asymmetric attack when we know the threat that it causes to U.S. naval vessels?

00:19:27.480 Of the military industrial complex and the beltway, I think, is to always go for the highest cost, most sophisticated solution for some of these problems.

00:19:40.380 And I have a lot of familiarity with the coal attack, because the Navy came to us.

00:19:47.120 That was actually at Blackwater.

00:19:48.440 That was our first government contract, our first big one, because the sailors that were guarding the ship that day were holding unloaded weapons that they hardly ever fired before.

00:19:56.200 And it was so bad that at Navy boot camp, firearms were considered too dangerous, so they were shooting blanks or a laser simulator.

00:20:04.600 That's how they were preparing to defend their ship.

00:20:06.920 They'd optimized to fight at 100 miles, not at 100 meters.

00:20:10.320 And so we ended up training almost 100,000 sailors after that to defend their ships vigorously from that kind of threat.

00:20:20.100 Again, they default to that playbook of full-on state conflict naval warfare.

00:20:27.840 It's up to the squadron, the Dejeron commanders, to drill and to force their crews to be ready for the myriad of threats, not just the one that comes with their playbook, but it requires them to be a bit devious and to think how else the enemy could slip one by.

00:20:48.500 And certainly, those crews that have been very diligent in the last six, eight months of this conflict since the Houthis started taking potshots at us, and that's the problem.

00:21:01.180 The Houthis are allowed to take potshots, and they're not suffering consequences. 0.99

00:21:04.940 Because when they shoot one, we should deliver tons and tons of weaponry back on everything that matters to the Houthis so that they pay a price and they understand what those consequences. 1.00

00:21:15.600 That you don't just get your shoe to a Navy ship and not expect you're going to get a two-by-four in the face.

00:21:23.860 Like that situation, the fact that the U.S. military is in the U.S. Navy are fighting the way they are, fighting with almost like both hands tied behind their back at this point.

00:21:35.020 And I want to take this out of the CENTCOM AOR and now into the Indo-Pacific AOR.

00:21:41.020 Because all of the things that you're talking about, naval drones, air drones, cruise missile attack, swarm attack, the devastating impact this has at sea.

00:21:54.440 I have to wonder, and I know for a fact, that China is taking a look at what's happening at the Red Sea right now.

00:22:01.780 They're clearly paying attention to what's going on between Russia and Ukraine right now.

00:22:06.960 And they see that Joe Biden is in a almost catatonic state.

00:22:13.800 What does all of that equal for Taiwan?

00:22:16.740 Well, you can almost see some coordination between Iran and Russia and China on these moves that they're making.

00:22:27.460 Because the conflict brewing between Hezbollah and Israel over the northern border has pulled the carrier battle group away from the Gulf of Aden and pulled that back through into the Med.

00:22:45.420 They've now pulled the entire carrier battle group away from Taiwan to cover down, to try to cover down on the Red Sea.

00:22:55.800 So, look, as we're seeing, precision weapons have become the most prolific thing ever in the battle space, so that any target that is known can immediately be targeted by lots of cheap drones, lots of expensive, high-end, hypersonic cruise missiles, you name it, all kinds of stuff.

00:23:16.180 You have a picture of a Predator Bee flying there.

00:23:20.400 The Houthis have shot down five of those.

00:23:22.920 So that system worked great over Iraq or Afghanistan when you had a very unsophisticated enemy, not so great when your enemy has surface-to-air missiles.

00:23:31.560 So five of those PredBs have been shot down by the Houthis really with no consequence. 0.59

00:23:36.420 What Taiwan needs, the best method of deterrence in a realm of a massive naval power and missile and rocket capability of the Chinese Communist Party, is first, a true home guard. 0.88

00:23:52.880 If you truly democratize force and the ability for individuals to defend their house, their community, their town, that becomes a very difficult thing for the CCP to calculate in terms of taking Taiwan, because you have a lot of urban area and you have a lot of very rugged, steep jungle.

00:24:11.100 And the thing that the CCP cannot afford is a long campaign, because they could not withstand the inevitable embargoes and blockades of energy and of the other things that you could expect to be put against them if they have a go, a kinetic go, at Taiwan.

00:24:30.720 They should also, the Taiwan should be investing in the same kind of naval technology.

00:24:35.520 I was going to say this has kind of been referred to as the hedgehog strategy, isn't that right?

00:24:40.200 Yeah, exactly.

00:24:41.100 Just be extremely unwelcoming and be unwelcoming and be unpredictable.

00:24:47.560 And that's the recipe for deterrence.

00:24:54.760 If you don't let your enemy know that you're going to be an easy target, it gives them pause.

00:25:01.880 Because if Xi Jinping decides we are going to go for Taiwan, he's all in.

00:25:07.580 Because if he goes for it and fails, then he's done as a leader.

00:25:11.100 And, you know, he will get the 13 cent invoice from whoever succeeds him.

00:25:17.420 And this is the big question, of course, is does he decide to go for it or not?

00:25:25.800 Because and look, I've said this for a long time.

00:25:28.420 I think it's a it's a question of the inverse relationship between whether or not he feels threatened in his position or not.

00:25:35.880 I don't think that he particularly does feel threatened in his position.

00:25:38.380 I know there's some other China analysts who who say otherwise.

00:25:41.700 But at this point, he's remade the party by and large in his own image.

00:25:46.740 He's had the massive the most massive purge since Chairman Mao in those days when in the days of the Cultural Revolution.

00:25:54.060 And he's done the same thing with the highest echelons of the People's Liberation Army.

00:25:58.600 And so the question that I would say is, is that the only thing I could think of is if Taiwan were to go into some kind of independent scenario, if the president there was going to declare independence, if if they were attempting to, you know, if they were trying to generate some kind of provocation at that point, you might see it.

00:26:20.260 But then again, he could also want to be looking at his legacy and looking at that idea of I was the leader of the party, the leader of the country who brought Taiwan back into the fold.

00:26:36.220 Yeah, look, we wonder, we as Americans wonder why is Taiwan?

00:26:41.280 Why are they so obsessed with it?

00:26:42.880 Because Taiwan is effectively Han China culture, but on freedom. 0.56

00:26:47.160 A bit of freedom of speech, freedom to move around, a freer economy, and is not under control of the state.

00:26:55.020 The Chinese Communist Party is all about 100 percent control of the 1.3, 1.4 billion people versus like 24 million people in Taiwan.

00:27:05.020 So it's nothing.

00:27:05.580 There's there's like 200 cities that are as big as Taiwan's population almost.

00:27:11.160 So it's it's it's I guess we as Americans will never fully understand that.

00:27:19.980 But the best deterrent strategy is to make themselves is to make Taiwan very prickly, not with high dollar weapons, but with the most basic stuff that would make an invading occupying force exceedingly unwelcome. 0.67

00:27:33.200 And again, in America, as we as perfect as we're celebrating, as we're talking about this on the Fourth of July.

00:27:41.200 30 percent of the American population of the colonies in 1776 were pro-crown, 40 percent in the middle were just trying to survive, 30 percent were pro-liberty, 10 percent of that 30 percent or 3 percent of the population actually took up arms against the British forces.

00:28:01.140 So if you take just 3 percent of the Taiwanese population, the the marathoners, the civil defense people, the firemen, the the most motivated parts of their reserve forces, the CrossFitters, the the hardcore part of their society.

00:28:19.200 And you give them the taste of a taste of a taste of the Second Amendment, not even really Second Amendment, more of almost like a Swiss model where they have access to the weapons, not not even necessarily in their home, but they could be stored at at civil defense centers at certain caches around the community.

00:28:36.100 If you have the ability to disperse disperse power down to the people, because remember, when Ukraine was invaded February of 2022, the smartest thing the Ukrainian government did is they literally opened all the government arsenals, just said, hey, come and get it, come and get an AK, an RPG, an anti-tank missile, whatever, but take it and get it on.

00:28:59.720 That really helped stop that initial invasion because it was not the Ukrainian army that did it.

00:29:06.100 That's a great point.

00:29:06.860 Now, I'll throw out that we actually talk about the the the back story of how Taiwan and the People's Republic have their split in in the book on humans here, how Taiwan was the the last readout of the Republic of China, the nationalist forces who were totally cut off by by Marshall and by Truman.

00:29:30.160 After the war, they flee to Taiwan.

00:29:33.160 The Soviets are backfilling the the Chinese Communist Party, the Red Army at the time.

00:29:38.100 It was the Soviets who were given complete privilege there at Yalta because of a special top secret deal that was signed by FDR when he was basically an invalid. 0.74

00:29:48.960 And all of his chief advisors and chief negotiators at Yalta were led by Alger Hiss, who was himself a Soviet agent.

00:29:57.220 Eric, I'd love to talk more about this, man.

00:29:59.140 I could talk all day.

00:29:59.900 Got to run.

00:30:00.840 Where is the best coordinates for people to follow everything you're putting out?

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00:30:35.480 We'll be right back here with more The Future War special, Human Events Daily.

00:30:39.540 Jack, I want to see you.

00:30:47.400 Great job, Jack.

00:30:48.820 Thank you.

00:30:49.560 What a job you do.

00:30:51.020 You know, we have an incredible thing.

00:30:52.400 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.

00:30:58.860 Jack, we'll be back live.

00:31:00.200 The Future War special here on Independence Day.

00:31:04.060 So why are we talking about future wars on Independence Day?

00:31:08.000 It's supposed to be about 1776, right?

00:31:10.080 Well, something for people to consider is that 1776 was, in its own time, a future war.

00:31:18.560 And in fact, a number of American wars have been future wars.

00:31:22.460 And who better than to explain that to us is the resident and preeminent military historian on these matters, Patrick K. O'Donnell.

00:31:31.280 Patrick, how are you?

00:31:32.720 I'm doing great, Jack.

00:31:33.640 It's great to be back on the show.

00:31:35.740 Happy Fourth of July, man.

00:31:36.800 Happy Fourth of July to you, too.

00:31:40.080 So in what ways – so we're going backwards.

00:31:43.260 We just had Eric Prince on and we were talking about what the next wars are going to look like.

00:31:48.200 But in what ways was the War of Independence itself a form of a future war?

00:31:54.720 Well, the most important thing is that there was a seismic shift in 1774.

00:32:02.780 There was a political revolution that takes place.

00:32:06.400 And that revolution is the idea of America, which revolves around freedom and liberty.

00:32:13.080 And that's an exceptional thing.

00:32:16.360 Because at this time, the world was dominated by empires.

00:32:20.600 There were kings and queens.

00:32:22.940 And you had people that were subjects rather than citizens.

00:32:28.220 And it's in America that the idea of freedom and liberty is born.

00:32:33.200 And it's an exceptional thing that will change the world.

00:32:40.100 The most important thing in any conflict is the idea itself and why people are fighting.

00:32:47.120 And that can be more powerful than any weapon system or anything else.

00:32:52.120 And the United States, which it wasn't the United States, it was America at the time,

00:32:56.960 and the colonists come up with these ideas of freedom and liberty.

00:33:00.400 It's the founders that are our greatest generation.

00:33:03.480 It's their ideals of also virtue on how they believe it's important to rise above yourself

00:33:13.380 and do something that is greater than yourself.

00:33:17.400 There's all these different things that are imbued within freedom and liberty

00:33:21.180 that they look back on the classics in many cases.

00:33:25.860 But this didn't...

00:33:27.320 Well, and Patrick, as you say, though, at that time, the kings and queens of the empires,

00:33:33.060 these empires weren't just far away.

00:33:35.820 So they were living in the British Empire.

00:33:38.700 Right next door was the French Empire. 0.62

00:33:41.280 They didn't have as many forces there, but it was French imperial territory.

00:33:44.180 The Spanish Empire is in control of the entire west, what is now the west, Texas, and then Florida.

00:33:51.500 And even then, all the way back up to the Yukon territories and the Alaska territories

00:33:56.560 are controlled by the Russian empires.

00:33:59.700 So you've got all of these empires on the North American,

00:34:02.900 and they had been carving up the North American landmass.

00:34:05.920 And then all of a sudden, you get these group of guys who say,

00:34:08.460 no, we're going to form a republic in that neighborhood all on our own.

00:34:13.600 Exactly.

00:34:15.560 It's this political revolution that starts to take place.

00:34:19.720 And what happens is that the British are terrified.

00:34:23.060 And General Gage, who's ostensibly the governor of Massachusetts and North America,

00:34:29.440 is in charge of the forces in North America,

00:34:31.920 realizes he has a massive problem on his hands.

00:34:34.540 And the way he intends to defang the Americans is to take their gunpowder away. 0.63

00:34:42.540 There are plenty of weapons left over from the French and Indian War,

00:34:47.200 the Seven Years' War, which is also a global war.

00:34:50.460 And the American insurgency will emerge as a global war as well.

00:34:56.580 But it's the 1774 political revolution that takes place.

00:35:02.180 And there's an incredibly important event called the Somerville Powder Raid.

00:35:06.360 And Gage raids the Somerville.

00:35:08.140 There's still the remains of this powder magazine in Somerville, Massachusetts,

00:35:12.280 right outside of Cambridge,

00:35:13.800 which Gage and his picked men raid it and steal the powder barrels.

00:35:18.560 There's about 200 of them in there.

00:35:20.440 And the colonists are immediately alarmed

00:35:23.020 because they don't have gunpowder or a means to defend themselves without gunpowder.

00:35:28.840 Because the colonies had produced a tremendous amount of gunpowder

00:35:34.320 during the Seven Years' War or the French and Indian War,

00:35:36.860 but it was all then outsourced to India

00:35:39.080 where they could develop saltpeter in a much cheaper fashion.

00:35:43.000 So they were basically, there was no organic production there.

00:35:47.180 And they knew that the existing supplies that they took away,

00:35:49.760 they would be basically defenseless against the British.

00:35:54.040 And once this took place,

00:35:55.760 it became a series of powder alarms, as they were called,

00:35:59.240 where Gage was going in and surgically removing the powder.

00:36:02.980 And it ultimately goes to Lexington and Concord,

00:36:06.960 where there are powder supplies as well as cannons

00:36:10.180 and other weapons that were stashed there in a weapons cache

00:36:16.000 that Gage surgically removes.

00:36:18.420 It's interesting to note, in 1774, in November, in October,

00:36:24.080 our first foreign aid comes from Spain and Portugal,

00:36:28.600 where the members of the book I wrote, The Marbleheaders,

00:36:33.920 which had this incredible set of fishing boats and trading vessels,

00:36:39.500 are trading with the Spanish.

00:36:41.960 And they're able to get our first weapons from a foreign power, 0.82

00:36:47.220 as well as powder coming through,

00:36:49.240 and they smuggle it into the colonies.

00:36:51.880 But things kick off at Lexington and Concord,

00:36:54.760 and then everything changes.

00:36:57.020 It becomes a kinetic war where they have to go up the,

00:37:00.160 what's called battle road between Lexington and Concord,

00:37:03.160 and it's a bloody gauntlet that 750 British soldiers,

00:37:08.080 Grenadiers, have to somehow navigate. 0.90

00:37:10.720 And it's, you know,

00:37:11.600 they're surrounded by the militia forces of the time,

00:37:16.580 which were extensive.

00:37:18.160 There were thousands,

00:37:19.820 upwards of 10,000 or more,

00:37:22.380 that come to the aid,

00:37:24.340 the minute men, if you will,

00:37:25.560 and they start to surround the road

00:37:28.240 and basically take pot shouts at the British.

00:37:30.740 And the British are exchanging fire

00:37:32.260 and making this bloody retreat back to Boston.

00:37:35.200 And that begins the American Revolution,

00:37:37.860 which is this,

00:37:38.920 I mean, a revolutionary war,

00:37:41.040 which is a, you know,

00:37:42.200 a bloody nearly eight-year struggle

00:37:44.440 for our independence,

00:37:45.660 which is never a situation where it was preordained.

00:37:49.220 It's actually a miracle

00:37:50.740 that the United States was born.

00:37:53.900 Well, Patrick,

00:37:55.820 go ahead, Chuck.

00:37:56.840 I always tell people that,

00:37:59.280 so I grew up very close to Valley Forge.

00:38:03.080 Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,

00:38:05.080 plays a huge role in my life.

00:38:08.220 Every weekend, my family took us there.

00:38:10.440 My sledding experience with my family,

00:38:13.600 the toboggan,

00:38:14.660 was right under the statue

00:38:16.300 of General Matt Anthony Wayne.

00:38:19.540 And it even got to the point

00:38:20.840 where my parents were married

00:38:22.120 in a church at Valley Forge.

00:38:23.580 And later I proposed to my wife, Tanya,

00:38:27.900 in Washington Chapel at Valley Forge.

00:38:30.780 Then we got married in a church

00:38:34.020 at Valley Forge as well.

00:38:36.080 And so for people to understand

00:38:37.460 the importance of Valley Forge,

00:38:39.760 the valor of that,

00:38:41.120 the suffering,

00:38:42.340 the hardship of that winter

00:38:44.060 where they didn't have shoes,

00:38:46.400 they're living in wooden,

00:38:48.740 practically lean-to type situations,

00:38:51.820 these huts that are basically built out there

00:38:54.840 in the middle of completely exposed field,

00:38:57.080 by the way.

00:38:57.680 And they build in the remains

00:38:58.800 of some of the fortresses still there,

00:39:00.200 the earthen encampments.

00:39:01.560 But it's still,

00:39:03.320 and they've got the cannons 0.78

00:39:04.040 pointed towards Philadelphia.

00:39:05.300 And so why are the cannons,

00:39:06.320 and when I was little,

00:39:06.980 climbing around on the cabins,

00:39:08.200 or the cannons,

00:39:09.200 I would say,

00:39:09.640 why are the cannonades

00:39:10.480 pointed towards Philadelphia?

00:39:11.840 Because they had lost Philadelphia,

00:39:14.020 because they had lost New York,

00:39:15.380 they had lost Boston,

00:39:16.540 and they had lost

00:39:17.060 every single major city

00:39:18.860 on the eastern seaboard

00:39:20.120 at that point.

00:39:21.180 That's how bad the war was going.

00:39:23.500 And then the winner

00:39:24.400 almost kills them

00:39:25.440 at Valley Forge.

00:39:26.580 It's only Washington,

00:39:28.400 and it's only his leadership,

00:39:30.400 and Martha, by the way,

00:39:31.740 going and stewarding

00:39:32.820 to the soldiery

00:39:33.920 that gets them

00:39:34.740 through that winter.

00:39:35.620 The entirety of the United,

00:39:37.800 thank God, by the way,

00:39:39.200 that the British never attacked

00:39:40.220 during that winter,

00:39:41.180 because this would have been

00:39:42.440 a failed coup,

00:39:43.980 a failed military uprising,

00:39:45.700 they would have called it,

00:39:46.560 and it would have been

00:39:47.200 a footnote

00:39:48.180 to the history

00:39:48.980 of the British Empire.

00:39:50.520 That's absolutely true.

00:39:51.540 And in so many cases,

00:39:52.880 it's the endurance

00:39:53.960 of the American soldier

00:39:55.180 that not only has to fight

00:39:56.800 the greatest army

00:39:58.020 of the world at the time

00:39:59.120 and the greatest navy,

00:40:00.880 but fellow Americans.

00:40:03.080 This is a situation

00:40:04.040 where the colonists

00:40:05.960 are divided up

00:40:07.000 into three parts.

00:40:08.580 In some cases,

00:40:10.660 maybe the 40%

00:40:12.080 were undecided,

00:40:13.560 and it would be

00:40:14.080 the battles

00:40:14.700 for the kinetic warfare

00:40:16.140 which would push people

00:40:17.980 in one direction

00:40:18.820 or another.

00:40:19.380 I mean,

00:40:19.780 in my book,

00:40:22.620 Washington's Immortals,

00:40:25.500 I've got one soldier

00:40:27.460 that changes sides

00:40:28.520 three times

00:40:29.440 based on being captured,

00:40:32.300 and he's given a choice.

00:40:34.000 You could go rot

00:40:35.120 on a prisoner of warship,

00:40:37.220 which is a floating

00:40:38.540 concentration camp,

00:40:39.680 or you can join

00:40:40.280 the British Army.

00:40:41.500 And it became a situation

00:40:42.860 where he had no choice,

00:40:44.460 and then he would be

00:40:45.060 recaptured again,

00:40:46.100 and then he was able to,

00:40:47.000 this guy was able

00:40:47.680 to talk his way out of it

00:40:48.720 because a lot of times

00:40:49.940 if you did join

00:40:50.860 the other side

00:40:51.560 and turn code,

00:40:52.720 if you will,

00:40:53.360 you would be executed. 0.52

00:40:56.320 Discipline was pretty severe.

00:40:58.060 But this is the miraculous part

00:41:00.700 of the American Revolution.

00:41:02.020 This is why

00:41:03.020 this is the greatest generation.

00:41:05.220 They not only form

00:41:06.080 the idea of America,

00:41:07.960 our principles

00:41:08.460 of freedom and liberty,

00:41:09.460 which are more important today

00:41:10.820 than ever before,

00:41:12.180 but they also are the men of iron

00:41:13.760 and women of iron. 1.00

00:41:15.080 They are,

00:41:15.600 you know,

00:41:15.840 their constitution

00:41:16.620 is exceptionally incredible.

00:41:19.340 I mean,

00:41:19.580 the suffering

00:41:20.240 that they have,

00:41:21.160 they're not paid,

00:41:22.280 they're not,

00:41:22.760 you know,

00:41:23.060 clothed properly,

00:41:24.000 there's no shoes.

00:41:25.220 I mean,

00:41:25.420 there's so many battles

00:41:26.800 where these men

00:41:27.960 are literally walking

00:41:29.340 hundreds of miles

00:41:31.160 without shoes or boots.

00:41:33.920 In Washington's Immortals, 0.93

00:41:35.700 the Marylanders

00:41:36.940 and the Delaware troops

00:41:38.060 march an epic

00:41:40.760 over 2,000 miles on foot.

00:41:44.040 You know,

00:41:44.180 and most of the time

00:41:44.820 they're out in the open,

00:41:46.220 they're fighting the British, 0.86

00:41:48.160 you know,

00:41:48.360 there's no tents

00:41:49.120 or any kind of creature comforts.

00:41:50.760 This is epic stuff.

00:41:52.060 And, you know,

00:41:53.280 without pay in most cases.

00:41:55.560 And they are believing

00:41:57.000 in the cause,

00:41:58.240 which is a epic cause.

00:42:01.380 And it's what will change

00:42:02.760 the world.

00:42:03.980 And as the,

00:42:04.660 as the American Revolution

00:42:05.780 pushes forward,

00:42:07.400 it becomes a global fight

00:42:09.060 because,

00:42:09.960 you know,

00:42:10.820 eventually we win

00:42:11.840 a number of battles,

00:42:12.900 you know,

00:42:13.220 such as the Battle of Saratoga

00:42:14.660 where the French

00:42:15.860 then recognize

00:42:16.860 that the,

00:42:18.220 you know,

00:42:18.960 this nascent

00:42:19.720 United States

00:42:21.060 is capable

00:42:21.800 of going toe-to-toe

00:42:23.100 with the world power.

00:42:24.080 And they throw their lot,

00:42:25.480 you know,

00:42:25.820 with the Americans.

00:42:26.580 They provide

00:42:27.600 with most importantly

00:42:28.840 financial aid

00:42:30.280 and money

00:42:30.880 to the cause

00:42:31.840 because hard currency

00:42:33.300 is very hard

00:42:35.060 to come by.

00:42:36.120 I mean,

00:42:36.560 gold and silver

00:42:37.820 and,

00:42:38.760 you know,

00:42:39.100 we're printing

00:42:39.800 paper money.

00:42:40.800 There's a,

00:42:41.280 you know,

00:42:41.420 inflation is off the charts.

00:42:43.040 There's hyperinflation.

00:42:44.600 The British actually

00:42:45.300 have an operation

00:42:46.280 where they're printing

00:42:47.480 our money

00:42:48.320 to devalue

00:42:49.920 the currency.

00:42:50.700 I mean,

00:42:50.840 there's a lot of things

00:42:51.560 that are,

00:42:51.900 you know,

00:42:52.120 going on here.

00:42:53.040 The British

00:42:54.880 were printing

00:42:55.600 our own money

00:42:56.660 to devalue

00:42:57.880 our currency

00:42:58.660 by flooding

00:42:59.360 the market

00:42:59.960 with extra money printing.

00:43:02.160 My goodness,

00:43:02.820 I can't think

00:43:03.480 of anything,

00:43:04.260 Patrick,

00:43:04.720 that that might

00:43:05.460 be similar to

00:43:06.280 right now.

00:43:06.860 Stay tuned,

00:43:07.200 folks.

00:43:07.400 We're coming up

00:43:07.880 right back.

00:43:09.220 The Future War

00:43:10.180 here,

00:43:10.640 Human Events Daily,

00:43:11.360 Fourth of July special.

00:43:12.480 Buzzing in my ear

00:43:13.440 about the boring

00:43:14.300 people at your office.

00:43:15.620 I'm trying to listen

00:43:16.420 to the new

00:43:17.060 human events

00:43:17.900 with Jack Pozovic.

00:43:19.520 Fourth of July special,

00:43:20.960 Human Events Daily.

00:43:22.140 So,

00:43:23.100 Patrick,

00:43:23.640 we've walked through

00:43:25.080 how the American Revolution

00:43:27.100 was in so many ways

00:43:28.660 a revolutionary

00:43:29.680 form of warfare

00:43:31.820 rather than

00:43:32.720 just a political

00:43:34.440 revolution,

00:43:35.320 but then fast forward

00:43:37.200 because we get to

00:43:38.180 a new step change

00:43:39.440 and that's what

00:43:39.820 we've been talking about

00:43:40.680 since Eric Prince

00:43:41.320 was on earlier,

00:43:41.980 these step changes

00:43:42.640 in warfare,

00:43:43.560 about the step changes

00:43:44.960 in warfare

00:43:45.560 that are faced

00:43:46.840 in the Civil War

00:43:48.560 and you have a brand new

00:43:49.520 book all about this.

00:43:51.480 I do.

00:43:52.140 It's The Unvanquished,

00:43:53.860 which is a best-selling book

00:43:55.200 and it's an entirely

00:43:56.860 new look

00:43:57.800 at the Civil War.

00:43:59.800 It's a look

00:44:00.740 at the Civil War

00:44:01.640 from a regular

00:44:02.520 warfare standpoint

00:44:04.200 and information

00:44:05.580 warfare standpoint,

00:44:07.660 which is

00:44:08.060 at the time,

00:44:10.140 it's 1864

00:44:11.760 and let's just

00:44:12.880 go back

00:44:13.920 to that time period.

00:44:15.480 Like the American Revolution, 0.64

00:44:17.280 you know,

00:44:17.560 91 years earlier

00:44:19.000 than the summer of 76,

00:44:20.840 it's a disastrous

00:44:22.900 summer for Lincoln.

00:44:25.620 Grant is on the offensive

00:44:26.760 on all fronts,

00:44:28.460 but

00:44:28.640 it's on the crucial front

00:44:31.220 in the Shenandoah Valley

00:44:32.300 where at the Battle

00:44:33.400 of Lynchburg

00:44:34.000 in June,

00:44:35.560 the Confederates rally.

00:44:37.940 General Lee

00:44:38.580 sends an entire

00:44:39.780 force

00:44:41.000 under the command

00:44:42.200 of Jubal Early,

00:44:43.300 14,000 strong

00:44:44.880 or more,

00:44:46.200 into Lynchburg,

00:44:47.340 reinforces it,

00:44:48.140 and then forces

00:44:48.880 General Hunter

00:44:49.620 out of the valley

00:44:51.220 and he doesn't

00:44:52.900 retreat to Washington,

00:44:54.100 D.C.,

00:44:54.500 which is a major

00:44:55.720 strategic blunder

00:44:57.040 because it opens

00:44:58.460 the pathway

00:44:59.260 for the nation's capital

00:45:01.540 and he retreats

00:45:03.500 into West Virginia.

00:45:05.140 The men have to suffer

00:45:06.200 a baton-style

00:45:07.660 almost death march

00:45:08.960 because they're not

00:45:09.640 given enough water

00:45:10.680 and food.

00:45:12.060 Many men die

00:45:12.800 on the road,

00:45:13.320 but the pathway

00:45:15.400 up the Shenandoah

00:45:16.520 is wide open

00:45:17.460 and so is the nation's capital

00:45:19.320 and Early,

00:45:20.020 with his force,

00:45:21.100 is marching towards it

00:45:22.300 and General Grant

00:45:23.360 makes a mistake

00:45:24.900 strategically.

00:45:26.000 He realizes

00:45:26.500 that this is a diversion

00:45:28.180 to draw off

00:45:29.880 the troops

00:45:30.680 that are surrounding

00:45:31.580 Petersburg,

00:45:34.120 but he doesn't

00:45:35.800 reinforce Washington

00:45:37.000 and Jubal Early

00:45:38.300 is marching

00:45:39.040 towards

00:45:39.680 Washington, D.C.

00:45:41.560 and there's

00:45:43.680 an incredible

00:45:44.400 special operations

00:45:45.520 mission

00:45:46.020 to not only

00:45:46.960 take the nation's capital,

00:45:49.100 but also free

00:45:50.060 the largest

00:45:50.720 prisoner of war camp

00:45:51.840 at Point Lookout

00:45:53.020 where there's

00:45:53.480 over 10,000

00:45:54.600 prisoners of war

00:45:55.860 and it's here

00:45:56.860 that the Confederate

00:45:57.600 Secret Service

00:45:58.560 conducts kind of

00:45:59.740 a really amazing

00:46:00.940 op that they try

00:46:01.700 to pull off.

00:46:02.620 They plan to

00:46:03.660 amphibiously land

00:46:04.760 several boats,

00:46:06.340 boatloads,

00:46:06.860 steamboats,

00:46:07.380 full of weapons

00:46:08.800 and then Jubal Early's

00:46:10.820 army will

00:46:11.380 pull off

00:46:12.180 an entire brigade

00:46:13.260 from the main force

00:46:14.460 and march down

00:46:15.360 to Point Lookout

00:46:16.220 to free the prisoners.

00:46:18.000 And all sort of

00:46:18.740 is starting to go

00:46:19.620 to plan,

00:46:20.800 but there's word

00:46:22.820 that the amphibious

00:46:24.180 operation had been

00:46:25.280 blown,

00:46:25.760 the cover

00:46:26.100 on the op,

00:46:27.100 so they cancel it.

00:46:28.820 But the pathway

00:46:31.080 to Washington

00:46:31.800 is wide open

00:46:32.660 because Grant

00:46:33.480 doesn't know

00:46:33.900 if he's going

00:46:34.340 after Baltimore City

00:46:36.460 or the Capitol.

00:46:37.900 And it's at a place

00:46:38.880 called Monocacy

00:46:39.920 near Fredericksburg

00:46:40.980 where General

00:46:42.200 Lou Wallace,

00:46:42.860 who's the future

00:46:43.880 author of Ben Hur,

00:46:45.700 the classic,

00:46:46.900 makes this epic stand

00:46:48.300 and it burns hours,

00:46:49.540 about eight hours

00:46:50.260 of time.

00:46:51.560 And it's crucial

00:46:52.240 because there are

00:46:53.580 no reinforcements

00:46:54.660 in Washington, D.C.

00:46:55.800 The Capitol

00:46:56.360 is wide open

00:46:57.280 and if they take

00:47:00.100 the Capitol,

00:47:00.700 the South will win

00:47:01.760 the war.

00:47:02.200 and time

00:47:04.440 is bought

00:47:04.940 preciously.

00:47:05.980 There's also

00:47:06.340 this march

00:47:06.980 that's,

00:47:07.420 you know,

00:47:07.660 in direct sunlight

00:47:08.580 which beats

00:47:09.620 down on the men.

00:47:10.620 But they get

00:47:11.260 to Washington, D.C.

00:47:12.880 John McAustin

00:47:13.840 who's in

00:47:15.180 the Unvanquished

00:47:16.160 is a cavalryman.

00:47:17.620 He rides up

00:47:18.440 to where

00:47:18.980 current day

00:47:20.060 American University

00:47:21.440 is located

00:47:22.220 and there's a fort

00:47:23.260 there and it's

00:47:23.680 completely abandoned

00:47:24.800 because there's

00:47:25.460 not enough troops

00:47:26.080 there.

00:47:26.480 They're all down

00:47:27.300 in Petersburg.

00:47:28.160 And he sees

00:47:28.780 the lights

00:47:29.240 of Georgetown.

00:47:30.260 The path

00:47:30.840 is open

00:47:31.340 but the bulk

00:47:32.580 of Early's army

00:47:33.320 is still not there

00:47:34.240 and they're at

00:47:35.500 the gates

00:47:36.040 of Fort Stevens

00:47:36.880 and it's here

00:47:37.420 that, you know,

00:47:38.600 Lincoln is desperate.

00:47:39.880 He knows

00:47:40.540 that Washington

00:47:42.160 will fall.

00:47:43.140 He's there

00:47:43.580 at the fort.

00:47:44.820 Somebody yells

00:47:45.460 at him to get

00:47:46.040 down as he's

00:47:46.780 under fire

00:47:47.380 from Early's men.

00:47:48.920 But in the nick

00:47:49.800 of time,

00:47:51.180 the men

00:47:51.920 of the 7th Corps

00:47:53.020 jump off the boats

00:47:54.420 of the Washington

00:47:54.980 Navy Yard

00:47:55.560 and march up

00:47:56.300 Georgia Avenue

00:47:57.060 to Fort Stevens

00:47:58.780 and save the day.

00:48:00.840 But this

00:48:01.840 is just the

00:48:02.260 beginning, Jack,

00:48:03.240 because the

00:48:03.840 Confederate Secret

00:48:04.560 Service is all

00:48:05.520 over all this

00:48:06.260 stuff.

00:48:07.000 They're literally

00:48:07.560 information warfare.

00:48:10.340 They recognize

00:48:11.620 that the northern

00:48:12.580 press is occupied

00:48:14.260 completely by

00:48:15.320 Democrats.

00:48:16.600 And one of my

00:48:17.140 favorite quotes

00:48:17.720 in the book

00:48:18.100 is the press,

00:48:20.260 the democracy

00:48:21.360 controls the press.

00:48:24.440 And the democracy

00:48:25.100 was the self-aggrandizing

00:48:26.220 term that the

00:48:27.480 Democrats like to 0.59

00:48:28.220 call themselves.

00:48:28.780 And they

00:48:30.060 influence press

00:48:31.220 operations.

00:48:31.780 And they still

00:48:32.460 do.

00:48:33.240 They still do

00:48:34.300 today.

00:48:34.640 Patrick, we are

00:48:35.200 running up on

00:48:36.480 our hard break

00:48:37.500 here.

00:48:37.820 The book is,

00:48:38.800 tell people again

00:48:39.480 the title of the

00:48:40.600 book, where they

00:48:41.540 can go, because

00:48:42.300 these are the

00:48:43.180 stories that

00:48:44.060 formed the

00:48:44.980 world we live

00:48:45.820 in today.

00:48:46.780 The Unvanquished,

00:48:48.100 it's available on

00:48:48.760 Amazon.com,

00:48:49.740 best-selling book,

00:48:51.100 reviews on

00:48:51.820 Wall Street Journal,

00:48:52.700 it's at the

00:48:53.100 front of the

00:48:53.600 store at Barnes &

00:48:54.400 Noble, at

00:48:55.460 Combat Historian on

00:48:57.060 Twitter and X and

00:48:57.980 Getter.

00:48:59.560 My website is

00:49:00.540 Patrick, my name,

00:49:01.420 PatrickKO'Donnell.com.

00:49:02.820 Thanks, Jack, for

00:49:03.420 having me.

00:49:04.660 The one, the only,

00:49:06.080 Patrick K. O'Donnell.

00:49:07.040 Remember that you

00:49:08.900 stand on the

00:49:09.740 shoulders of

00:49:10.260 giants.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - July 04, 2024

THE FUTURE WAR： FOURTH OF JULY SPECIAL

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