Unraveling 41: Bedlam
Lunatic asylum. Loony bin. Madhouse. Mental healthcare institutions have a long and checkered history. Beginning in the 1960s, rising public...
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Lunatic asylum. Loony bin. Madhouse. Mental healthcare institutions have a long and checkered history. Beginning in the 1960s, rising public...
Jocko and Darryl welcome Saagar Enjeti, co-host of Breaking Points w/Krystal Ball, to discuss how the changes in the media environment have...
Jocko and Darryl discuss the different perspectives of the Israelis and Palestinians, and whether peace is possible.
The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is long and complicated, with heroes, villains, and legitimate grievances on both sides. Non...
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, we've learned much about how thoroughly the information environment has been corrupted and manipulated by po...
As the war in Ukraine enters its eighth month, both sides are digging in for a long, hard winter. After a series of Ukrainian successes, the...
Columbine. Virginia Tech. Las Vegas. Parkland. Buffalo. Uvalde. America has become the land of mass shootings. Jocko & Darryl discuss what m...
The war between Russia and Ukraine has slowed to a grinding pace. The lightning strikes attempted by Russia in the early days of fighting we...
For most of history, and in much of the world today, there were no effective police, courts, prisons, or states. People and groups protected...
Jocko and Darryl welcome special guest Scott Horton. Scott is the director of the Libertarian Institute, and the senior editor of antiwar.co...
The Second World War saw all sides engage in unrestrained violence. When the war ended, the US-led Western alliance was suddenly confronted...
Darryl and Jocko discuss free speech, media responsibility, information warfare, and the recent attacks on Joe Rogan.
Foundational to both American and Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War was the view that direct confrontation between the nuclear-armed...
Former Director of Central Intelligence Mike Pompeo once crowed about his time with the CIA, "We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire t...
What is a liberal democracy without a functional free press? The idea almost seems like a contradiction in terms. The mass media has become...
Description: The French Revolution ended the era of limited warfare, and ushered in the era of peoples' war. The Napoleonic Wars shocked Eur...
In episode #22, we discussed the pivotal year 1917, when the United States and the Soviet Union began their entry onto the stage of global p...
Jocko and Darryl welcome Bryan Suits, host of The Dark Secret Place podcast, to discuss Chinese propaganda films, military tech, and global...
Jocko & Darryl discuss the humiliating and catastrophic final days of the US war in Afghanistan. This episode is dedicated to the heroic eff...
"There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen." -V.I. Lenin This is the first of a series of discussions...
With the longest war in American history officially set to wrap up next month, Jocko and Darryl take stock of mistakes made, missed opportun...

In this episode, were joined by James Poulos, executive editor of American Mind, a publication of the Claremont Institute, to discuss his ar...
In June 1967, Israeli aircraft, armor, and soldiers launched a massive surprise attack against the Egyptian forces of General Gamal Abdul Na...
After 30 years of repression and brutality against its Armenian subjects, the Ottoman imperial government used the cover of the First World...
World War 1, the Russian Civil War, the Red Terror, Holodomor, the Great Terror, World War 2, Chernobyl, state collapse, two revolutions, an...
Description: As the Cold War kicked off in the late 1940s, America was rocked by revelations that hundreds of Soviet spies had somehow entre...
The Puritans had fled the iniquity of Europe to found a godly civilization in the New World, but in 1692 the devil tracked them down. Driven...
For thousands of years, nomadic tribes occupied vast lands beyond the limited reach of pre-modern empires. With the dawn of the modern age,...
Jocko and Darryl discuss the implications of a recent CDC report detailing a dramatic increase in substance abuse and mental health problems...
News, History, Impactful events and Lessons.
News, History, Impactful events and Lessons.
News, History, Impactful events and Lessons.
News, History, Impactful events and Lessons.
News, History, Impactful events and Lessons.
Three years onto the Iraq War, the country is in flames and American support for the war is waning. Jocko leads Task Unit Bruiser into Ramad...
With many political and military leaders pronouncing the Iraq War a failure, Jocko prepares to lead his SEAL Task Unit into a battle that wi...
Jocko completes his first tour and heads back to the US as Iraq begins to come apart at the sectarian seams.
After the fall of Saddam's regime, US forces struggle to provide security as an insurgency takes shape. Jocko's first tour is action-packed,...
The traumatic experience of Vietnam shapes the US approach to the Gulf War. The easy victory in Kuwait shapes expectations of the Global War...
The Cold War and the Islamic revolutions of 1979 raises false hope among US policymakers for Saddam Hussein, whose blood-soaked reign would...
Jocko and Darryl Cooper discuss the "beginnings" of the war on terror.