Sebastian Junger

And that's when you really have a tactical problem, township by township, mountain by mountain.

And then your electromagnetic pulse actually doesn't serve you that well.

And the Afghans, I mean, the Taliban didn't defeat us.

They just outlasted us until we got tired of being there and didn't want to pay the bill.

Yeah.

I mean, the medical description is I had an undiagnosed aneurysm, which is a ballooning of an artery at a weak spot.

So, I mean, arteries can dilate to get more blood flow, but an aneurysm is like one specific spot that for one reason or another

It's weak and it starts to sort of give way and it'll bubble outwards.

And as that bubble grows bigger – and this takes decades.

It's a very slow process, right?

Basically, I have a ligament in the wrong place and that set in motion a sort of vascular problem that resulted in an aneurysm and they don't hurt.

There's no way to diagnose – I mean unless you scan someone's abdomen, I've always been super healthy.

And so throughout my life, I just never had any reason for an abdominal scan, right?

I'm a fit, healthy male, right?

Fit, healthy person.

And so I just never needed that look inside me.

So no one saw the aneurysm growing, right?

And so at some point, the artery wall gets stretched so far that it will rupture.

It'll just burst.

And now you have an arterial bleed, right?