Based on your study, is this something that can be developed or did these generals have

superior judgments? Not from birth, not from birth.

The three supreme commanders and strategic leaders that I'm taking a look at are George Washington, Ulysses S.

Grant, and Dwight David Eisenhower.

And what I'm doing is I am balancing them against their principal opponents.

So I'm not just looking at them in isolation.

I'm looking at them in the competition they found themselves in.

obviously can't run experiments

But these aren't the only three Supreme Commanders that this country has ever produced or

had.

So these three offered us, I think, a unique window.

Yeah.

So a lot of folks will argue that having more and better resources is what wins.

You talk to a lot of international relations scholars, it's preponderance or it's technology, that sort of thing.

I just described to you the scenario that Washington found himself in.

What did you learn about that relationship management from each of these case studies?

what was it like to be in like ramadi and fallujah that early on you know before because those were obviously huge hotbeds later on

yeah So you were just seeing the first signs of what was coming.

So, you know, we arrive in country in April.

In May, we start to sort of settle on, because I mean, one thing that people forget is that we were trying to put force on space.

So we were trying to put the right size unit on top of the right size population.

in order to help with the transition into a new government.

By June, you could see that things were not going well.

You're like Terminal S3 building

this event is.

Yeah.

So to rewind the clock, I got a chance to talk to Ryan Warner about a week after I did that.

I was on a conference call where I was briefed about the fact that roughly 75% of Americans, when they're surveyed about the idea of living kidney donation, have the perception that you sort of shrivel up and you degrade or become less than you were before donation.

And so the organization that briefed me on that, the National Kidney Registry, was looking for ways to fracture that myth, to dispel that myth.

And so I proposed doing the Four Deserts Ultramarathon.

And I've been a runner for quite some time.

Of all of those events, why settle on something quite like this four deserts race?