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The story starts with a hard correction: observation isn’t enough—orientation wins.
A Marine who grew up in Pakistan and rose through the Corps brings a view you do not get in a briefing book. LtCol Asad “Genghis” Khan, USMC (ret) talks straight about war, culture, and the cost of bad decisions. No polish. No excuses. Orientation wins, always.
He walks us through the real OODA fight, the one where context beats checklists and judgment beats slogans. He shows how cultural understanding is not a side quest, it is the ground you stand on. He lays out why leaders who skip the deckplates lose the plot, and why the people closest to contact often see the truth first. We talk warrior ethos, accountability, and the pressure of command when the plan meets a living adversary.
Khan breaks down Afghanistan with a clear eye. The Taliban’s advantages were time, terrain, and tight social fabric. Ours were power and technology, often blunted by cultural blindness and shallow engagement. He explains how local respect and plain talk open doors that armor cannot. He tells the hard parts of combat, the weight of sending people forward, and the duty to come back and face them eye to eye.
He does not spare senior leadership. Promotion games, safe consensus, and distance from ground truth reward the wrong habits. Strategy that ignores economics and social reality creates debts someone else must pay. We talk about reform that starts with contact, listening, and accountability, not new slogans.
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March 25, 2025
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Chapters
1. Setting The Table: Boyd And Ethics (00:00:00)
2. Orientation Over Observation (00:03:26)
3. Pashtun Roots And Early Hard Lessons (00:07:26)
4. Becoming A Marine: Tough Schools, Tougher Mentors (00:12:56)
5. Doctrine, SAW, And MCPP (00:21:26)
6. 9/11, CENTCOM, And Cultural Reality Checks (00:25:56)
7. Pakistan Liaison And Improvisation (00:34:26)
8. Afghanistan Deployment: Training, SOPs, Night Attacks (00:40:26)
9. MEU Friction And A Preventable Loss (00:47:26)
10. Eleven Days Of Fighting And Danger Close (00:53:56)
11. Awards, Extensions, And Disillusion (01:01:56)
12. Investigations, Retirement, And Silence (01:08:26)
13. Speaking Out: Sentinel And Accountability (01:13:56)
14. Systems Failure: Promotions, Troop Time, Three Tracks (01:19:26)
15. Leadership Presence vs Strategic Corporal (01:25:56)
16. Force Design 2030 Critique And China Myths (01:31:56)
17. Culture, Corruption, And How We Lost The Thread (01:38:56)
18. Practical Counterinsurgency: Wells, Food, Respect (01:45:56)
19. Mountains, Grit, And True Toughness (01:52:26)
20. Digimob, The Book, And A Call To Lead (01:58:56)
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