This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast More What You Hear Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. He's retired at Brigadier General A. J. Tata Anthony Tata, most recently performed to the duties under Secretary of Defense Policy of the Pentagon. He's also commanded combat units in the eighty second, one hundred, first Airborne Divisions, and tenth Mountain Division. His last combat tour
was in Afghanistan of two thousand and seven. But he's parlayed all of his experience into a wonderful character that is now featured in a new book, The Follonix Code, and it is a Garrett Sinclair novel. Greetings, General, Good to have you along. How is Garrett Sinclair? Seems like he's had some time to kind of cool off a bit. Well, he's stilling great, you know, other than being in lockdown, prison or defend in the
country. So garethon Protagonist's three Star Army General, very popular series Sam Martin's Press. And I actually have a book signing in Oklahoma City March fifth at Full Circle Bookstore at six thirty pm. That's Full Circle six thirty pm where I'm signing Falanx Code. So hopefully they'll get some advertisements out there and we'll have a good crowd. But when I do these book signings and certainly radio
shows that I talk about current events, I take questions and answers. And The Falanx Code is the third book in a series featuring Garrick Sinclair, who has a team that responds to discrete presidential missions overseas and domestically that help resolve national security issues. So what is the reference to the Faylanks Code. Can
you explain a little of what that means? Yeah? Sure, So there is a code that the Falanx Corporation, which is a techno fascist company Facebook, and they've written a code and it is there are hackers trying to hack it that are friendly to the General, the protagonist, because Felanx has said, you need to understand what this means. And so part of the narrative
drive is the General and his team trying to break the Faalanks code. Meanwhile people are being killed that are members of the General's team and the rival tech technology Magnet, and so they believe that the Fealanks Code is the kill liss of the FEALANX Corporation going after Mitch Drusen, who is the rival tech magnet thinking Aaron Musk and his team trying to protect free speech. In your adventures as a Brigadier General in the United States Armor and Under Secretary of Defense,
did you come across many of these characters in real life? Well, you know, always in my books, I have bureaucrats and the Pentagon that employ the eight thousand miles screwdriver or self dealing and that kind of thing, And you know, I did see some of that. I also saw a lot of great people, a lot of great Americans, you know, doing their duty. But certainly the self dealing bureaucrat only looking out for themselves is my personal pet rock. And so there's always one or two in every book that
I that I write. You know, the men and women on the front lines deserve all the support they can get, and certainly that is represented in my stories. And not that everybody on the front lines is super awesome, but for the most part that's uh. There's good guys and bad guys, good gals and bagdeals and hopefully it all sorts out at the end. There for the reader. Brigadier General Anthony Tata. The Failings Code is the book.
It's a Garrett Sinclair novel. So Garrett Sinclair has been in Leavenworth. Evidently things have gotten so bad that they have to find a way to get him out. Yeah. Yeah, So Mitch Drewsen and the Optimist Project, which is thank Elon Musk It's resources the breakout of of the of the General
and Drews and an Optimist Project need defending from the Failings Code. And so it's, uh, it's a struggle between these two technologies, the companies who are trying to UH, through technology dominate information globally and uh one Drews an Optimist Code is trying to think, uh, you know, the DeFi and the decentralization of information where you can protect yourselves. And then Falanx Code, think Facebook, where they're trying to suck up or Google and change everything so
that they have control. So Facebook and Google combined are are is certainly one of the antagonists here in the metaphorically in the in the book, and I imagine an inspiration in some ways General Anthony Toddle. The Falx Code is the book Garrett Sinclair novel. Garrett Sinclair is a leader. Is he more of an in the field general or is he a behind the scenes general. He's
a boots on the ground general. And in the first book in the series, From the Lion, I took a little heat from some readers they would never let a general go to the front lines. I'm like so in the second book, Total Empire, I have some examples where there's discussions about, oh, what about patent at the Crossroads, or what about the colonel that jumped in with the Army Ranger two platoons in the Kandahar at the beginning of
the nine to eleven efforts in Afghanistan. And there are Jim Gavin in the eighty second Airborn Division who jumped with his troops and rolled up privates and sergeants to establish a command post. So good leaders lead from the front, and that's what Garrickson Claire is. I've always felt that way too. Speaking of which our situation in Ukraine, I wanted to tap your brain for just a minute about that. Are we successfully or can we successfully bankrupt Russia at the
end of this well, as I think that's certainly the goal. You know, I come at this from a Vinyl interest standpoint, having served as the under Secretary and been in charge of implementing the national Defense strategy. Uh, the vital interests associated with Ukraine is not Ukraine proper. It's the integrity of NATO, and it's certainly the markets that we trade with in Europe and the European Union and the Quadlie democracies that many of those countries have, and certainly
the free markets. And that's the real vital interest here. And so some level of effort to at least create a stalemate there in Ukraine, I think, is Meridith. What we're missing is the diplomatic effort. There's that, you know a point, and I don't know that we've ever had a more incompetent secretary of State and the history of this country. He would certainly take the prize in that regard. John McCain warned us about all this back when
he was, you know, Deputy Secretary of State under Obama. But certainly we need more diplomatic effort, that's for sure. Anthony Tada, Brigadier General, US Army, author of The PHELANX Code, a Garrett Sinclair novel out everywhere you get books. I could talk all day, but I thank you for giving us some time today general. Yeah, thank you very very much,
appreciate it. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live weekday afternoons from five to seven and Iheartsmedia presentation