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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

Dan Carlin

Classical, Discussion, Rome, Ancient, Military, History, Archival, War, Modern

4.8 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Dan talks about history, war and philosophy (and where those three subject might converge) with Four-Star General and former U.S. Air Force Chief-of-Staff Merrill McPeak. Books: Roles and Missions by General Merrill A. McPeak The Vietnam Chapters: Air Combat in Southeast Asia by General Merrill A. McPeak Below The Zone by General Merrill A. McPeak Hangar Flying by General Merrill A. McPeak

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0:00.0	It's hardcore history.
0:04.0	When I was designing this hardcore history-dendom format, I knew that we were going to want to do interviews.
0:13.0	It's a good way for us to get out content quickly that's interesting and that it involves other people, other voices, people that you might want to know more about.
0:22.0	And I knew that we would have authors on because there's always a lot of good people writing intriguing books because I'm reading them.
0:30.0	I knew we would want to have experts on from time to time because after all it's a great use of the medium, isn't it?
0:36.0	And I was hoping that we could get some primary source people on from time to time, participants in the events that we were talking about.
0:43.0	In other words, I'm not a historian because historians chronicle things for history and for footnotes and stuff and books.
0:49.0	But maybe we could do a little bit of that if we were interviewing people who were participants in these sorts of events.
0:56.0	Well, today I have somebody that is sort of the trifecta of interviews for this program because he meets all three of those specifications.
1:05.0	He's an author, he's an expert, and he's a primary source and participant.
1:09.0	His name is Merrill McPique.
1:11.0	He happens to be a four-star Air Force general.
1:15.0	He flew with the Thunderbirds, the acrobatic team for the Air Force.
1:20.0	He is a commander, a chief of staff in the Air Force and did so during the first Gulf War.
1:27.0	And he flew more than 250 combat missions in Vietnam.
1:32.0	Imagine that for a second.
1:35.0	He's also a noted author who's got a brand new book out to add to his catalog of books.
1:41.0	His new book is called Rolls and Missions, which goes over his time as the 14th Air Force Chief of Staff.
1:48.0	By the way, sort of a bipartisan guy worked for the Bob Dole Republican campaign, also supported and was in the Barack Obama administration in terms of a military capacity.
1:59.0	He writes about his time in Vietnam and his book called Hang or Flying.
2:03.0	He's got another one called Below the Zone, another one called the Vietnam Chapters.
2:07.0	If you like military history, especially Air Force history, Merrill Tony McPique is somebody whose book should be on your bookshelf.
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