Darryl Cooper
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5,155 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Darryl Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh there's a bunch of stuff to talk to you about tonight, Bill.
podcast-host
Um you and I should have gotten together a long time before this, but uh I'm gonna try to try to fit everything into a reasonable time frame.
podcast-host
Um the first thing I wanna talk about is maybe a a bit of a diversion from what we'll spend most of the episode on.
podcast-host
But um I wanted to get your thoughts about, you know, last week we were talking about the uh the the Houthi advance and the Saudi Arabian military and I kind of made some offhand comments about uh Saudi Arabia's y uh military limitations, their inability to kind of field an effective force and made some kind of
podcast-host
Uh you know, kind of rather
podcast-host
low resolution, um, you know, uh silly, poorly thought out comments about Saudi society in general.
podcast-host
Um, you know, that that uh were sort of the the, you know, the reasons I was giving for that.
podcast-host
But the um the underlying the underlying point, you know, the inability of so many of Arab countries in general, but uh, you know, the the monarchies in particular to field effective military forces um is a well known thing.
podcast-host
People have written and spoken about it for a long time.
podcast-host
And um I was just wondering what your thoughts were on that.
podcast-host
Like, you know, what what are the what are the main limitations that a country like
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like Saudi Arabia, which has the money, has the population that theoretically could field an effective military force, uh, but they just they just can't seem to do it.
podcast-host
Um I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
podcast-host
Is that just because uh, you know, it tends to be where they warehouse the second and third and fourth sons of important families and things like that or um you know, I know in some of the like in some of the um
podcast-host
Arab countries like Iraq and uh Syria, where you did have this minority ruling over uh, you know, a different sectarian majority, um, you would have a lot of the
podcast-host
I guess high value branches of the military, your pilots, um, you know, a lot of your special operations forces, things like that would be drawn from the other minority groups.
podcast-host
So you'd have Christians as a lot of pilots like in in Iraq, uh things like that.
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Lebanon, for instance.
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Right, right.
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Yeah.
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