No One is Ready for This Coming War - Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf - #1089

0:00I'm going to play a little trick for the first time ever in this studio to make you feel a little bit more at home.

0:06So, you're a man who operated largely in the dark when you are doing raids, when you would have been operating.

0:13I imagine some stuff would have been by day, but other stuff would have been by night.

0:16Unless there was an extremely compelling reason to do so exclusively at night.

0:21Oh, nice.

0:22Here we go.

0:22Transitioning, evening.

0:25And now we're in a blood moon.

0:26We usually didn't go out at full moon.

0:29Oh, okay.

0:29Because there's too much visibility.

0:31Illumination.

0:31So, you know, even though you can see at night with night vision goggles, we constantly were looking at the illumination, the external illumination, because at some point, people can almost see you as well as you can see them with the technological advantage.

0:44So we would avoid the high illumination nights and obviously aviators and things that fly that could be backlit against those.

0:50They try to avoid it as well.

0:52What are you surprised by with what's happening with warfare over the last few years?

0:57Like, I can't work out whether technology is making things more humane or more dangerous.