Battle of Ramadi (2006)
Event in History
Battle of Ramadi (2006) has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Shawn Ryan Show. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
James LechnerRetired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former Army Ranger, Battle of Mogadishu veteran, and author of With My Shield
Lechner says partnering with Sheikh Sattar's tribe expanded Ramadi's police force dramatically within about six months.
“So we went from 200 cops to 5,000. We went from two stations to over 20 stations”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #346 James Lechner - Army Ranger Recounts the Battle of Mogadishu: Black Hawk Down (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 2:36:10
Lechner says Ramadi accounted for about 30% of U.S. casualties in Iraq when his brigade was assigned there.
“Ramadi at that time accounted for 30% of all the casualties in Iraq, one city”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #346 James Lechner - Army Ranger Recounts the Battle of Mogadishu: Black Hawk Down (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 2:23:55
Podcasts
- The Shawn Ryan Show · 1 episode
Episodes
#346 James Lechner - Army Ranger Recounts the Battle of Mogadishu: Black Hawk DownThe Shawn Ryan Show · Oct 8, 2026 · 3 h 20 min
Retired Army Ranger James Lechner tells Shawn Ryan about fighting and being wounded in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, turning around Ramadi, Afghanistan policy failures, and the war in Ukraine.