This is Jockel Podcasts number 291 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening,

echo. Good evening. Your responsibilities may involve the command of more traditional forces,

but in less traditional roles. Men risking their lives not as combatants, but as instructors or

advisors, or as symbols of our nation's commitments. The fact that the United States is not directly

at war in these areas in no way diminishes the skill and the courage that will be required,

the service to our country, which is rendered or the pain of the casualties, which are suffered.

Decide one final example of the range of responsibilities that will fall upon you. You may hold a

position of command with our special forces, forces which are too unconventional to be called

conventional, forces which are growing in number and importance and significance, for we now know

that it is wholly misleading to call this the nuclear age, or to say that our security rests only

on the doctrine of massive retaliation. Korea has not been the only battleground since the end of

the Second World War. Men have fought and died in Malaya, Greece, the Philippines, Algeria, and Cuba

and Cyprus, and almost continuously on the Indo-Chinese peninsula. No nuclear weapons have been fired.

No massive nuclear retaliation has been considered appropriate. This is another type of war. New in its

intensity, ancient in its origin, war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins,

war by ambush, instead of by combat, by infiltration, instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding

and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him. It is a form of warfare uniquely adapted to what

we, to what has strangely been called, wars of liberation, to undermine the efforts of new and

poor countries to maintain the freedom that they have finally achieved. It prays on economic unrest

and ethnic conflicts. It requires in those situations where we must counter it, and these are the

kinds of challenges that will be before us in the next decade if freedom is to be saved. A whole new

kind of strategy, a wholly different kind of force, and therefore a new and wholly different kind

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