Andrew Milburn retired from the US Marine Corps in 2019 and has since gone on to write the highly acclaimed memoir ‘When The Tempest Gathers: A Marine Special Operations Commander At War’. 

As an infantry and special operations officer, Andy has had operational command at every rank which included leading the multinational special operations task force given the mission of defeating ISIS in Iraq. This has obviously led to some very dangerous situations and from all his experiences, he shares with me what he thinks are some of the key skills and attributes needed to be an effective leader, as well as the culture that needs to be created. How the small accumulation of dropping of standards or turning a blind eye leads to disaster and much much more.

This conversation was recorded before the Russian invasion of Ukraine but, a lot of what Andy talks about is directly actionable, especially with how President Zelensky is conducting himself, facing his very own and very real tempest, but, having been educated at St Pauls school in Hammersmith and University College London, my first question was how he ended up in the US Marine Corps in the first place.

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Aiden McCullen Podcast Episode - https://benryan.co.uk/podcast/episode-22-aidan-mccullen/

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Boarding School Syndrome book - https://amzn.to/3C7ZJ5Y

Evelyn Waugh - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh

Boy George - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_George

Somalia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)

Task Force Ranger - https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)

Marionette - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionette

Pavlovian - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pavlovian

My Lai massacre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BB%B9_Lai_massacre

Haditha massacre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre

Full Metal Jacket - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket

Mali incident - https://abcn.ws/3McTJx8

George Orwell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

Winston Churchill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

Churchill’s Chief of Staff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Alanbrooke

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