There was a time when John Dean asked me if I could set up a safe house for the president.

And even at that tender age, I knew there were people like him who could set up safe houses with their eyes closed.

And so I said, to John, that's crazy.

And John said, well, the president doesn't want them involved in this, which gave me a really fine sense that something was going to go terribly wrong.

Welcome to Combat Story.

I'm Ryan Fuget, and I serve Warzone Tours as an Army attack helicopter pilot and CIA officer over a 15-year career.

I'm fascinated by the experiences of the

elite in combat. On this show, I interview some of the best to understand what combat felt like

on their front lines. This is combat story. In this episode, we sit down with statesmen and

Ambassador David Miller, who shares his expansive and storied career, starting from his early days

surveying economic impacts in Vietnam during the war to his intricate experiences with the

National Security Council and various international postings and ambassadorships.

We're joined, as usual, by Glenn Korn, who spent a career much like Ambassador Miller in

service to the United States but on the CIA side of the House as opposed to the diplomatic. And you get to hear what it's like when chiefs of station

and ambassadors truly work together. Ambassador Miller recounts tales working closely with influential

figures such as Nelson Mandela and Brent Skowcroft and discusses his involvement in developing

the Diplomatic Studies Foundation, which is a fascinating approach

that brings war games to country teams with a different outcome in mind.

Peace. Ambassador Miller reflects on the challenges of delivering unvarnished intel and narrowly

avoiding any involvement in what he could sense was a scandal that was coming and was later

known as Watergate. It's a great story. You're going to love it.

And then Ambassador Miller also helped start the Special Operations Fund, which directly

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