Jocko on Running for President | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Yeah . I think it'd be excellent if people , you know , if the president had military experience for sure . I think that then they understand the , with the way the military works better , um , they understand that each civilians that control the military because a lot of times people that are civilians don't understand that the civilians control the military .

Jocko on Running for President | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Um And so they ask for that reason among others and I've heard you give your answer , you can repeat it again here . But as a more broad theme that I think uh people are interested in , do you think it's an important criteria or it would be great to see people in positions of leadership who've had wartime experience ? Um And do you think that some of the shifts that we've seen in terms of um patterns of leadership over the last , let's just make it real broad so that this isn't related to any particular person or stretch of , of history but over the last , let's just say , 25 years , um , reflect the fact that we haven't seen a lot of that , at least at the top tiers of leadership .

Jocko on Running for President | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

I don't think people are asking just to kind of entertain themselves . I think that um this country certainly and a lot of the world is desperate for certain kinds of leaders and people that have experience in high risk , high consequence , chaotic situations and have shown prowess at leadership in multiple domains . And um you are certainly one of those individuals .

Jocko on Running for President | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

I don't think it's mandatory . I mean , clearly it's not , we've had a bunch of presidents that haven't ever served anything really . We've had a bunch of presidents that have never served anything but themselves .

Jocko on Running for President | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

I mean , clearly it's not , we've had a bunch of presidents that haven't ever served anything really . We've had a bunch of presidents that have never served anything but themselves . Um , so , yeah , hopefully we'll get some more people that have some experience in the military .