Hey, everybody. I have really an amazing guest and I and I really feel honored to have him.

Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL Special Operations team as team leader

Latune Commander. He served as troop commander and a task unit commander over his 20 years

in Naval Special Warfare. He transitioned from an enlisted SEAL sniper to a junior officer leading

assault in the sniper teams in Iraq and Afghanistan to a Latune commander practicing counterinsurgency

in the southern Philippines and then to commanding a Special Operations Task Force in the most

Iranian influence section of southern Iraq throughout the tumultuous drawdown of US forces.

He is a war fighter but in addition to that he is an extraordinary writer. He is one of the most

successful writers today. He's been called the most impactful men's fiction author of his

generation. He exploded as a writer onto the bookshelves in 2018. With the terminal list his

goodreads choice award winning debut novel of conspiracy and revenge since then Carr has gone

on to write five more novels in this thrilling series of millions of books and his fictional

protagonist James Reese has been brought to television screen by actor Chris Pratt and

incidentally is married to my niece. A little fact people don't know, don't hear to know. Anyway your

bug if he goes on and on it's extraordinarily impressive you've led a really interesting and

eventful life which we see throughout your novels. You know what I've admired you for long

time Jack I really wanted to get you on this show and I called you immediately after reading the

post-mortem that you wrote on Afghanistan this very very moving post-mortem and I just want to

start I want to let you talk and not me people see enough of me talking. In 1971 the Pentagon

papers were released and Wellsburg had led the team that wrote them in the Rand Corporation and

it was a question how did we get into the and it was a very very candid inside view of the decision

making process that had gotten us into that war and of course the Pentagon and after my uncle died

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