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Hi, and welcome to another wonderful episode of Software Radio. I am your host, Rad, and I have the wonderful pleasure of having this guest on that I'm about to introduce.

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You guys buy in those torch lights and coffee mugs and everything is branded with our logo. We love it. Okay, and we love to get tagged by it.

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That's all in my brain. I'm trying to remember all of this guy. So book club. So join the book club.

Now my guest comes from the United States Army, and I'm just going to read you his bio to introduce you to retire colonel John Antel.

And so let me go ahead and read this. John Antel is a soldier historian, author, leadership development expert, and master storyteller in one of his many books or in a single session,

John will teach you how to improve your leadership and raise your team's effectiveness. He has published 14 books and hundreds of magazine articles on military history, military technology, and leadership topics.

John served 30 years in the US Army and retired from the US Army as a colonel. He is an airborne and Ranger qualified and commanded tank and cavalry units in his post army career, John has become a successful author, magazine correspondent and editor, video game producer, military consultant, film personality,

public speaker, radio talk show host, explainer, integrator, journalist, and leadership coach. He has been awarded the prestigious draper leadership award, the silver order of the St. George medal and numerous military medals, including three separate awards of the Legion of merit.

In October 2017, John was awarded the Congressional Veteran Commodation CVC by Congressman Sam Johnson of Texas. In short, John's life purpose is to develop leaders and inspire service. Welcome to the show.

Rad, thank you very much for your kind of view, and much more than I deserve.

You know, you just put yourself into the selfless service lifestyle where you just probably wanted to do good.

Well, I tell you, I'm still trying to make an effort. Since January 2021, I was a member of the Army Science Board for three years, and when I left the Army Science Board, I realized that we still needed to coach teach and mentor our military to understand the changing methods of war.

And we are transitioning from 20 years of fighting jihadis and fighting in the Middle East, and now we're looking at peer competition as you can see the whole world is on fire.

It really is. And you have a book, right? It's called Next War.

Right. I mean, this is something that is your, this is your lane. And so you bring this to the show to talk about. I was watching some of your highlight reel, right?

You have a YouTube video out there right now. Next war. And I was watching your highlight reels of that. And you're talking already, like with a crystal ball of what is currently happening right today, even though I don't like to date our podcast.

But I mean, you've got Israel and Hamas going at it wholeheartedly. You've got Ukraine and Russia battling it out right now. And these are, you know, inadvertently like proxies for a lot of others to be involved in.

And then you have Azerbaijan and Armenia, right? These triple threats that have been going on that have been under the radar or not under the radar or people are just like batting a blind eye to it. And I kind of talked to my oil change guy the other day.

Okay. Hear me? And I said, are you ready for a supersonic missile to blow up the grocery store across from us? Well, we're getting this oil change right now.

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