Jocko Podcast 463: Urban Warfare Perspective on Ukraine and Israel. With John Spencer

John Spencer is the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point and the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies w the Madison Policy Forum.

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[ACactusHealingRhino]

What an absolute assault on my free time. This heater opened and now I gotta drop 2.5 hours to listen to this. Great guest. Check.

[choyayahyah]

It's crazy to think that our (US) military and most elite special forces units, and they are truly elite, have never experienced the kind of challenges that Israeli forces have to face. It sounds like the challenges are on another level.

[scylentdeth]

Jocko I really enjoyed this one. That man has a brain full of information and I’m grateful to have been able to hear what he has to say.

[StatueofGuyThinking]

What an incredible and fascinating interview! Thanks guys, this was so enlightening. Cheers fellas.

[exore_music]

As an Israeli reserve soldier who's been there - John is spot on
Thank you Jocko and Echo for bringing knowledge to the people 🤘🏼

[ADAPTIVXGS]

Hey Jocko, i am a SOF GWOT veteran who also fought in ukraine. Would love to pass on my experiences

[TheCSClassroom]

Finally! I feel like a lot of military-oriented podcasts coming out of the US have been overly focused on the GWOT when there's a conventional land war going on in Europe, against Russian and North Korean soldiers no less. Looking forward to digging into this.

[assafelron]

The Gazan didn't see IDF soldiers every day from their window... The IDF left in 2005... And also there was no problem of food.

[volcaniadread]

I'm a fan of this podcast for years now. first of all, ty for all the great info and good vibes! I've been waiting to see when the Israel war subject will come up. tysm for shading light on the antisemitic dark racist lies 🙏 // u have to check out the Green Prince. He has an insane life story (there's a good movie and a book about him). He lives in the US, maybe he could be your guest one day!

[maryjaneleoncio]

❤❤❤ Happy Remembrance Day/ Happy Veterans Day❤❤❤
Sir Commader Jocko W.
Sir Echo Charles...and All the Brave Men & Women...Soldiers...Warriors
...Thank you for your Service 😊
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!❤❤❤
No.1 Fan here in Canada 🇨🇦

[thepontiacbandit]

Thank you from an Israeli, for spreading these facts.
I think some of the reasons why Israel did not release the full footage of October 7:
1. Israelis, Jews, are traumatized. Collective memories of the Holocaust and Pogroms etc. make this hellish day even more hard to bear.
2. Israelis are very proud people, perhaps too much. It's very hard for us to show the world how hurt we are.
We as people still haven't completely processed, we're quite far away from it in many ways, the acts of October 7.

[dmytropalichuk]

As born Ukrainian i appreciate all the help!!!

[ilrozen]

John clearly knows what hes talking about. great listen

[ilana]

Itself so refreshing to hear professionals talking anout thibhs they KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT SOMETHING. So tired of the misinformation and the sheer amount of blatant propoganda on every other news outlet. Thank you so much for this interview.

[davidhernandez]

Happy Veterans Day Thank you more than you, gentleman, for your services to the country🇺🇸, 🫡!

[AntoineDeSaintYT]

Thanks to John for bringing practical on-the-ground fact-based perspective about Russia-Ukraine war as well as Israeli-Palestinian war.

Specifically on Ukraine, and from somebody who grew up there. Looking at all the early atrocities that Russians committed in the beginning of the invasion when their casualties were not that high, and at how they execute captured Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines and torture them in captivity, it is pretty evident for an average Ukrainian civilian what to expect if Russia takes over when their casualty level is now over 0.5 million and growing. They were dehumanizing Ukrainians in the beginning, and now they are even more furious. Expect a genocide of global proportions on the scale of millions, properties taken, men killed and tortured, women and children raped. So, from Ukrainian perspective the choice to continue resisting is pretty clear.

And it bugs me how some people in the western audience continue to push this (Russian) narrative that Ukraine wants to continue war and Russia wants peace 🙄 It couldn’t be more otherwise. Russia, in a very revisionist way, wants to reassert its influence over the region at any cost. And it’s a tragedy that eventually the world will come to learn that, but it might be too late.

[HpesGds]

God Bless you gentlemen, thank you for your service 🥰 May Gods right hand be upon both Israel and America.

[nonamenotexisting]

Gaza trip was doing very well from standpoint of food and water. Tgr markets were full of produce from Israel, Jordan, Saudi etc. Kids who were born there from 2004 have not seen a Jew or an Israeli soldier face to face simply because they were not there.

[mrglemrgle]

Jocko is so spot on, I just sold a $15, 000 job today, never went to college, got in with the best of the best word of mouth SoCal construction contractors and all because I studied music for 20 years since age four, Covid shot music out of my life so I continued to pursue construction, I pay rent in cali and have started two small companies and continue to play music and hold a second in command position at my initial job with my boss who set the grounds for half of these things, Jocko I started following three years ago as a ketamine addict, I’m 2 years clean this December, I owe it to you, lord of the rings books and Samuel pressfield’s “the war of art”…. And a distinct message from god which is rarely witnessed but I don’t lead with that if the case doesn’t require

[gabrielleibovic]

Amazing work. You need to develop a documentary with Frontline to this story out.