Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast

Nov 25 2024 57 ep. 48 mins 390

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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 057: "CG Announcement November 2024: WarNotes Podcast Rising"

Nov 25 2024 6 mins

I will be pausing Chasing Ghosts from its fortnightly cadence of issuance for the remainder of the year.I am taking the time to regroup and focus on the new occasional podcast series, WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast as a companion podcast focusing on conventional conflict and strategic thought.I think the new election results may be the time for the western military complexes to take

Ep 056 "Pearl Snap Tactical Interview with Mark Booher"

Nov 11 2024 58 mins

Mark Booher at Pearl Snap Tactical interviewed me discussing irregular warfare and the threat to the homeland.We discuss irregular warfare and the impacts of an up-sized catastrophic attack on the US homeland. We riff on and discuss my "Storming America" series (episodes 37, 41-43 and 49-50) on the CG podcast.The election results don't change the imminent danger but may alter the w

Ep 055 "The Shapiro-Ferguson Kerfuffle: History at War""

Oct 28 2024 38 mins

I am the Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute.They asked me to comment on the recent podcast interview between Ben Shapiro and Niall Ferguson which of course, was a reaction to Darryl Cooper's (Martyrmade Podcast) recent appearance on Tucker Carlson.I find members of the academic historian cartel (even "right of center" types like Ferguson) are

Ep 054 "CG Excursion: The American Military Empire is in Terminal Collapse"

Oct 14 2024 63 mins

The trillions dollar fragile American military complex is in big trouble in big war.It doesn't work.Robotics and drones are the new "low tech" answer to the First World's exquisite military platforms that are over priced and have the same provenance of battleships planet-wide in January 1942.Autonomous targeting will become more and more relevant as the speed of munitions increases

Ep 053 "CG Excursion: The Revolution Will Be Televised: Near Peer and Peer Conflict in the 21st Century"

Sep 29 2024 61 mins

Robotics and drones are the new "low tech" answer to the First World's exquisite military platform that are over priced and have the same provenance of battleships planet-wide in January 1942.The electronic emissions environment in future conflicts will be a two-way street that will put any active acquisition sensors and attached effectors in the hazards if they emit and remain in

Ep 052 "CG Excursion: Churchill: Imperial Bombast and the Death of the West"

Sep 16 2024 61 mins

This is an episode to examine what Churchill really did for the West after witnessing the emotional & ahistorical outbursts by the usual suspects after Darryl Cooper from the Martyrmade Podcast appeared on Tucker Carlson on 2 SEP 2024.I am simply addressing the claims of Churchill as "the chief villain" which I think was hyperbolic (Cooper accedes to this) because I think Churc

Ep 051 "Cellular Ecology: Guerrilla Organizations and Grunt Math"

Sep 02 2024 65 mins

This is an episode to examine what cell structures look like and the methodologies of guerrillas and insurgents use to conduct clandestine or covert action.I further discuss traditional, subversive, critical cell and mass-oriented and unconventional cell structures. We visit some historical parallels and why the US and the West may not catch the next wave of terror in America (not

Ep 050 "Storming America: TTP to Make you Free (Part II)"

Aug 26 2024 55 mins

My Storming America Series covers the gamut of what the spontaneous attack in the US will look like when terror cells launch a simultaneous attack on the US homeland.I cover it in Episodes 37, 41-43 and 49-50 of my Chasing Ghosts podcast.This is an episode to examine what you can do about the coming civil unrest in America. I discuss some of the tactics, techniques and procedures (

Ep 049 "Storming America: TTP to Make you Free (Part I)"

Aug 12 2024 67 mins

My Storming America Series covers the gamut of what the spontaneous attack in the US will look like when terror cells launch a simultaneous attack on the US homeland.I cover it in Episodes 37, 41-43 and 49-50 of my Chasing Ghosts podcast.This is an episode to examine what you can do about the coming civil unrest in America. I discuss some of the tactics, techniques and procedures (

Ep 048 "CG Excursion: Peer Strike ISR Complex: The Need for Rational Fires Coordination"

Jul 29 2024 82 mins

***Apologies; this episode appears to have some technical issues that I will address on return to my home studio; I am on the road right now.***Fires synchronization is the effective coordination of sensors and effectors in near-real time or real time in a hostile non-permissive combat environment.The West has no working system to coordinate its artillery, air and Integrated Air an