536: Ramadi: Sacrifice, Brotherhood, and The Return. w/ William "Spanky" Gibson

This is Jocko Podcast number 536 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. After the Fallujah offensive, the Americans tried to quell the insurgency in Ramadi with a combination of political maneuvers and the cooperation of tribal leaders to root out foreign Islamist fighters. But that plan has spectacularly fallen apart.

The men who dared to ally themselves with the Americans quickly learned that the U.S. military couldn't protect them. Insurgents killed seventy of Ramadi's police recruits in January, and at least half a dozen high profile tribal leaders have been assassinated since then. Ramadi has become a town where anti-American guerrillas operate openly and city bureaucrats are afraid to acknowledge their job titles for fear of being killed. The government center in downtown Ramadi comes under gunfire or mortar attacks daily.

And that right there is an article titled Fear of Big Battle Panics Iraqi City. It was dated 11 June 2006. It's from the Los Angeles Times, written by Megan K. Stack in Louise Rouge.

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