Rob Stein
speaker
556 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Rob Stein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There was the surge initially, but then a lot of people went through multiple deployments, both in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Many, many casualties, around 7,000 Americans killed, tens of thousands wounded, lots of PTSD cases.
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And as this dragged on, you began to see disenchantment.
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among the American public, certainly at the length of these wars, but also a lot of people in the military saying, well, you know, what are we doing now?
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We've been there for 10, 15, 20 years, and we don't really see the end in sight.
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And what you did come up with is a generation in many ways represented by someone like Pete Hegseth, who were very critical of the way those wars were run.
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They want to sweep out the old guard in the
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And Hegseth is criticized on many, many fronts, but there are many at his age group, say in their 40s, who fought and served and came away pretty disenchanted with the way the military was being run.
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Some
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Americans being killed.
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A very similar transformation took place in the intelligence community.
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The CIA had always been focused heavily on the Soviet Union.
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And then when it collapsed in 1991, it was sort of fishing around for its next mission.
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And then 9-11 happens.
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And all of a sudden, this is something it's not prepared for.
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It was not a
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built or structured to hunt down terrorist networks.
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The CIA immediately needed to go out and recruit and train much larger groups of employees who could speak Arabic, who understood the Middle East.
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Technology played a huge role.
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