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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast More What You Hear

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Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. He's
retired at Brigadier General A. J.

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Tata Anthony Tata, most recently performed
to the duties under Secretary of Defense Policy

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of the Pentagon. He's also commanded
combat units in the eighty second, one

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hundred, first Airborne Divisions, and
tenth Mountain Division. His last combat tour

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was in Afghanistan of two thousand and
seven. But he's parlayed all of his

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experience into a wonderful character that is
now featured in a new book, The

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Follonix Code, and it is a
Garrett Sinclair novel. Greetings, General,

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Good to have you along. How
is Garrett Sinclair? Seems like he's had

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some time to kind of cool off
a bit. Well, he's stilling great,

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you know, other than being in
lockdown, prison or defend in the

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country. So garethon Protagonist's three Star
Army General, very popular series Sam Martin's

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Press. And I actually have a
book signing in Oklahoma City March fifth at

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Full Circle Bookstore at six thirty pm. That's Full Circle six thirty pm where

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I'm signing Falanx Code. So hopefully
they'll get some advertisements out there and we'll

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have a good crowd. But when
I do these book signings and certainly radio

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shows that I talk about current events, I take questions and answers. And

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The Falanx Code is the third book
in a series featuring Garrick Sinclair, who

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has a team that responds to discrete
presidential missions overseas and domestically that help resolve

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national security issues. So what is
the reference to the Faylanks Code. Can

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you explain a little of what that
means? Yeah? Sure, So there

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is a code that the Falanx Corporation, which is a techno fascist company Facebook,

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and they've written a code and it
is there are hackers trying to hack

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it that are friendly to the General, the protagonist, because Felanx has said,

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you need to understand what this means. And so part of the narrative

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drive is the General and his team
trying to break the Faalanks code. Meanwhile

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people are being killed that are members
of the General's team and the rival tech

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technology Magnet, and so they believe
that the Fealanks Code is the kill liss

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of the FEALANX Corporation going after Mitch
Drusen, who is the rival tech magnet

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thinking Aaron Musk and his team trying
to protect free speech. In your adventures

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as a Brigadier General in the United
States Armor and Under Secretary of Defense,

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did you come across many of these
characters in real life? Well, you

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know, always in my books,
I have bureaucrats and the Pentagon that employ

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the eight thousand miles screwdriver or self
dealing and that kind of thing, And

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you know, I did see some
of that. I also saw a lot

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of great people, a lot of
great Americans, you know, doing their

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duty. But certainly the self dealing
bureaucrat only looking out for themselves is my

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personal pet rock. And so there's
always one or two in every book that

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I that I write. You know, the men and women on the front

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lines deserve all the support they can
get, and certainly that is represented in

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my stories. And not that everybody
on the front lines is super awesome,

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but for the most part that's uh. There's good guys and bad guys,

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good gals and bagdeals and hopefully it
all sorts out at the end. There

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for the reader. Brigadier General Anthony
Tata. The Failings Code is the book.

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It's a Garrett Sinclair novel. So
Garrett Sinclair has been in Leavenworth.

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Evidently things have gotten so bad that
they have to find a way to get

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him out. Yeah. Yeah,
So Mitch Drewsen and the Optimist Project,

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which is thank Elon Musk It's resources
the breakout of of the of the General

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and Drews and an Optimist Project need
defending from the Failings Code. And so

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it's, uh, it's a struggle
between these two technologies, the companies who

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are trying to UH, through technology
dominate information globally and uh one Drews an

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Optimist Code is trying to think,
uh, you know, the DeFi and

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the decentralization of information where you can
protect yourselves. And then Falanx Code,

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think Facebook, where they're trying to
suck up or Google and change everything so

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that they have control. So Facebook
and Google combined are are is certainly one

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of the antagonists here in the metaphorically
in the in the book, and I

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imagine an inspiration in some ways General
Anthony Toddle. The Falx Code is the

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book Garrett Sinclair novel. Garrett Sinclair
is a leader. Is he more of

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an in the field general or is
he a behind the scenes general. He's

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a boots on the ground general.
And in the first book in the series,

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From the Lion, I took a
little heat from some readers they would

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never let a general go to the
front lines. I'm like so in the

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second book, Total Empire, I
have some examples where there's discussions about,

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oh, what about patent at the
Crossroads, or what about the colonel that

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jumped in with the Army Ranger two
platoons in the Kandahar at the beginning of

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the nine to eleven efforts in Afghanistan. And there are Jim Gavin in the

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eighty second Airborn Division who jumped with
his troops and rolled up privates and sergeants

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to establish a command post. So
good leaders lead from the front, and

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that's what Garrickson Claire is. I've
always felt that way too. Speaking of

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which our situation in Ukraine, I
wanted to tap your brain for just a

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minute about that. Are we successfully
or can we successfully bankrupt Russia at the

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end of this well, as I
think that's certainly the goal. You know,

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I come at this from a Vinyl
interest standpoint, having served as the

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under Secretary and been in charge of
implementing the national Defense strategy. Uh,

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the vital interests associated with Ukraine is
not Ukraine proper. It's the integrity of

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NATO, and it's certainly the markets
that we trade with in Europe and the

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European Union and the Quadlie democracies that
many of those countries have, and certainly

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the free markets. And that's the
real vital interest here. And so some

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level of effort to at least create
a stalemate there in Ukraine, I think,

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is Meridith. What we're missing is
the diplomatic effort. There's that,

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you know a point, and I
don't know that we've ever had a more

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incompetent secretary of State and the history
of this country. He would certainly take

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the prize in that regard. John
McCain warned us about all this back when

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he was, you know, Deputy
Secretary of State under Obama. But certainly

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we need more diplomatic effort, that's
for sure. Anthony Tada, Brigadier General,

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US Army, author of The PHELANX
Code, a Garrett Sinclair novel out

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everywhere you get books. I could
talk all day, but I thank you

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for giving us some time today general. Yeah, thank you very very much,

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appreciate it. Thanks for listening to
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