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Jocko Podcast · 2026-01-28 · 106 min · 18,980 words

525: Why Action Beats Analyzing. The Soldier and The Statesman.

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This is Jocko podcast number 525 with Echo Charles and me, Jonko Wheeling. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. So we are picking up from the last episode, episode 524. We are continuing on with the book Soldiers and Soldiering by Ultrabar Ultrabard Archarbald Wavel or Wavell.

If you haven't listened to 524 yet and go start there. Go back and listen to it. It'll give you a little more background. Field Marshal Wavell was a combat experienced uh leader in multiple wars on multiple fronts.

He was also a military historian. He's a writer, and you can get the rest of his bio in that last episode. But some of what he wrote was captured in this book. Soldiers and soldiering. So we are picking up where we left off on the last podcast.

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