Richard Barrett and James Lafond travel to the trenches of the Western Front to explore how WWI influenced the combatants and their writings in Pulp Fiction and Mythology!
A timely podcast with overtones relevant to the current military disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan today.
Inside you’ll learn:
- How Richard Barrett wrote his first book on WWI…
- His negative reception by academia his freshman year of college…
- How James Lafond’s friend wrote his thesis on German Diplomacy in WWI…
- How James Lafond learned the big picture of WWI through historical wargames…
- How Richard wanted to write a WWI book completely different than what he had seen before…
- The difference between the British Army and German Army training…
- How the United States adopted the German model to disaster…
- How this model made us lose Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan…
- James Lafond reveals the real reason why we used the failed German model…
- The origins and future of the Mercenary Contractor conundrum…
- How James Lafond and Richard Barrett define Romanticism…
- And much, much more!
Our podcast gets cut off at the 1:27:42 mark. We pick it up and wrap it up with a final 30 minute session, included here!
You won’t want to miss this podcast that is “an inch wide, and a mile deep”!
Richard Barrett’s opus magnus on WWI, “The Forgotten History of WWI: From the Dark Ages to 1939: https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-History-World-War-Dark/dp/1499565143
James Lafond’s “The Seven Faces of the Hero”: https://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=4704
Ernst Junger’s “The Glass Bees”: https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Bees-Review-Books-Classics/dp/0940322552
Big Myths on WWI: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25776836
A scholarly starting point on the nuances of the British training model: https://www.amazon.com/Chief-Gary-Sheffield/dp/1845137698
John Nagl on the British Model vs. German Model in Vietnam: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Eat-Soup-Knife-Counterinsurgency/dp/0226567702
Erik Prince of Blackwater in his own words: https://www.amazon.com/Civilian-Warriors-Inside-Blackwater-Unsung/dp/1591847214#:~:text=Civilian%20Warriors%3A%20The%20Inside%20Story,9781591847212%3A%20Amazon.com%3A%20Books
Norvelle B. De Atkine on how we set up our Middle East allies for failure : https://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars
Will Wright’s “Six Guns and Society” on the role of skill in the Western: https://www.amazon.com/Sixguns-Society-Will-Wright/dp/0520034910
Roland Barthes on the Good Guy/Bad Guy dichotomy in Pro Wrestling: http://web.mit.edu/21l.432/www/readings/Barthes_WorldOfWrestling.pdf
The story of James Bond Stockdale: https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Hanoi-Hilton-Characteristics-High-Performance/dp/1682472175/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2JILANR5PE4CR&dchild=1&keywords=lessons+from+the+hanoi+hilton&qid=1632069192&s=books&sprefix=lessons+from+the+hanoi+hilt%2Cstripbooks%2C177&sr=1-1
James Bond Stockdale’s ethos in his own words: https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Philosophical-Fighter-Pilot-Reprint/dp/0817993924
Objective and Subjective Romanticism: https://www.philosopher.org.uk/rom.htm#:~:text=Philosophically%20romanticism%20represents%20a%20shift,understood%20from%20no%20particular%20viewpoint.&text=The%20romantic%20emphasis%20on%20art,view%20of%20some%20Enlightenment%20figures.
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