217: Identity Before, During, and After Ranger Regiment with Cameron Fath
Talk Back to Me Many of us grew up in a world where to join the military meant to serve our country. Baked into that ideological pie was a hierarchy where, the more special your operations, the more v...
14 Jun 20241h 47min
216: Why Men Go Off To War
Talk Back to Me Why do men go off to war? Is it for Glory? Honor? The GI Bill? The war/violence/conflict in Ukraine illustrates how some men go to war, regardless of the big picture. While pundits a...
13 Jun 202429min
215: The Fall of Minneapolis and its Consequences with Peter Johnson
Talk Back to Me Even during the 2020 Black Lives Matter Summer of Love, news agencies hesitated to report on the destruction taking place in Minnesota. Few poeple outside of Minneapolis know that the ...
10 Jun 20241h 56min
214: How Might Makes Right and When it Doesn't
Talk Back to Me Might Makes Right. No Truth but Power. History is written by the Victor. These phrases often say one thing, but try to communicate another. When we casually say that might makes righ...
5 Jun 202429min
213: How to Start or ReStart training in Self Defense
Talk Back to Me When it comes to gear, play the long game. When it comes to training, get what you can, when you can get it. When it comes to practice, it's better to start with what you have, than ...
3 Jun 202429min
212: Peter Ildefonsa on Gun Culture, Industry, and the Second Amendment
Talk Back to Me The difference between what can be called the Gun Culture, the Industry, and those in support of the Second Amendment isn't a single overlapping circle of a Venn Diagram. Instead, we h...
31 Mai 20241h 38min
211: Why We Train for Both Proportionality and Utility
Talk Back to Me In violence, as in war, two concept stand in tension with one another: proportionality and utility. McMahan identifies one understanding of proportionality as "a constraint on action t...
28 Mai 202428min
210: Ruben Alverez of Paradox Training: ECQC vs Jiu Jitsu
Talk Back to Me Self Defense isn't what it used to be. Jiu jitsu has become mainstream. But what if you were to discover that no-gi training wasn't as realistic as you wished? Ruben Alverez traces a t...
24 Mai 20242h 2min
