Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast
af Bill Buppert
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Ep 089 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time [Fall 2026]""
Ep 089 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time [Fall 2026]""
Om denne podcast
An unauthorized podcast series peeking behind the curtain at the vast machinery and briar patch politics of fighting terrorism and insurgency and everything in between. I'm a "COINtra" and not a "COINdinista", the latter are the vast army of apparatchiks and apologists who fire the engines of Irregular Warfare (IW) planet-wide. We're the skeptics and doubters of all things IW and special operations. And we are a tiny sliver of the IW community. I have noticed a jarring gap in this part of the discussion and intend on filling the breach.
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Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute
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- Ep 089 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time [Fall 2026]"" · 57 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 89It's been quite some time since I have responded to "mail" so I have curated these questions to address:. • Why the future of warfare is not clone wars? • The Fall of Europe is…
- Ep 088 "Hybrid Warfare in the New Age: The Future Forward (Part Three)" · 44 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 88Hybrid warfare is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations. We continue our conversation…
- Ep 087 "Hybrid Warfare in the New Age: Japan Expands the Conflict Aperture (Part Two)" · 54 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 87Hybrid warfare Is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations. This second episode examines an…
- Ep 086 "Hybrid Warfare in the New Age: Stretching the Envelope (Part One)" · 50 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 86Hybrid warfare Is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations. This first episode tries to lay…
- Ep 085 "Home is the High Ground: Reimagining a New Hermit Kingdom" · 52 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 85I discuss the possibilities of America relinquishing its global ambition to reduce its footprint to a regional hegemon in the Western hemisphere. The new technologies of AI, UAVs…
- Ep 084 "Blood in the Water: The US Navy is Sinking" · 56 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 84The US Navy is lost at sea and in the thrall of exquisite platform that be the maritime tombs of tens of thousands of sailors in the coming wars of the 21st century. The…
- Ep 083 "Memorial Day Remembrance 2026: Oceans of Blood, Wars of Choice"" · 51 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 83I discuss the darker side of celebrating war and the moral injury of wars of choice. Memorial Day is a day of remembrance and an existential wake. This day is about the ashes of…
- Ep 082 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time [Spring 2026]" · 36 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 82It's been quite some time since I have responded to "mail" so I have curated these questions to address:. • What should the USAF do now? • Is fraud a form of irregular warfare?…
- Ep 081 "Strategic Empathy: Grokking the Pendulum of Indecision" · 1 t. 2 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 81I examine the strategic deficit disorder that absolutely dominates the US and western military establishments I speak to the tools and critical thinking modalities that could…
- Ep 080 "The Cargo Cult of Martial Belief, Wishcasting and Bloodshed" · 57 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 80Episode 100! Well, when I combine the 20 episodes of WarNotes with the CG podcasts but a chance to pop the bubbly anyway. Today we discuss the critical lack of critical thinking…
- Ep 079 "Iran, Salvo Competition and the Inevitable Stalemate" · 44 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 79I'll discuss Iran and the grunt math of salvo competition. Buppert’s Law of Military Topography: “Mountainous terrain held by riflemen who know what they are about cannot be…
- Ep 078 "Iran and I Lost: The American Empire Tilts Again" · 45 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 78With Western conflict in Iran escalating and in train, I discuss the vagaries and verities of the nuclear gambit in Iran in the Middle East and what this will mean to the future…
- Ep 077 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time [Winter 2026]" · 51 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 77It's been quite some time since I have responded to "mail" so I have curated five questions to address:. • What are your thoughts on the Maduro and VZ kerfuffle? • How do you…
- Ep 076 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Five (Conclusions)" · 1 t. 3 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 76I offer my scorched earth solutions to fighting Antifa and communism in the US.. America is in a Civil War with a major political party and its blacked-shirted paramilitary arm…
- Ep 075 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Four" · 57 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 75I further examine the educational feeder mechanism for communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-government. In…
- Ep 074 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Three" · 57 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 74I examine the feeder mechanism for communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-government. In this third episode…
- Ep 073 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Two" · 54 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 73I examine the domestic communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-government. In this second episode, we examine…
- Ep 072 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part One" · 56 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 72I examine the domestic communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-governments;. In this first episode, we shall…
- Ep 071 "The Devil's Thermostat: Turning Up the Heat on American Civil War" · 1 t. 0 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 71This episode examines civil war manifesting itself in the US and the world over the next few years and makes a forecast on how close we are on the doomsday clock of civil war on…
- Ep 070 "Bolivar's Revenge: The Venezuelan Tar Pit and American Ambition" · 1 t. 2 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 70We examine the emerging Venezuelan kerfuffle. There are many currents and undercurrents in the latest incipient war debacle in America history. This will be a disaster for…
