Jocko Willink
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Well, we can't.
Oh, there's a super high risk?
Explain that risk to me.
And they explained to me, you know what, I agree with you guys.
Boss, we're going to exclusively breach tonight.
Boss says, cool.
My boss never told me no.
So those kind of things, I think, again, where we get into the, hey, just do what I'm telling you to do.
both up and down the chain of command.
I don't want my, I want my guys to resist me.
I want them to say, we should be able to explosively breach.
Okay, tell me why.
And I should be able to look at my boss, here's why.
And by the way, if my guys explain to me, hey, we should explosively breach and here's why.
And I explained it to my boss and my boss says, no.
Okay, do I have an argument?
No?
Okay.
Well, then how can I mitigate this?
Well, I can mitigate it by not stacking my platoon up in front of the door or outside the building and doing a call-out.