Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast

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Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare 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. Substack: Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute Chasing Ghosts Podcast on YouTube I am an Amazon Affiliate. You can contact me at cgpodcast@pm.me

  1. CG Announcement November 2024

    25 DE NOV. · BÔNUS

    CG Announcement November 2024

    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 a knee and refocus and re-calibrate strategic and grand strategic opportunities in addressing the real-time shortfalls in facing Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA) that are littering the battlefields of the 21st century. My first WarNotes series will be a comprehensive survey of how to fix the broken, shattered and most expensive paper tiger in the history of the world, the US military complex. The Fixing Fight Club series will be weekly until I finish the survey. The US is at a crossroads: continue to invest and spend on exquisite platforms that will simply be missile sponges in the emerging salvo competition landscape or retool a more thoughtful application of military power in concert with rationally extrapolating second and third order effects to stymie the pristine track record of military failure and stalemate since 1945. I suggest the American military complex has a mere generation to reset its arthritic, sclerotic and top heavy platforms and stratagems before irrelevance and abject systemic military failure becomes the sole avenue left. You can find the WarNotes podcast at my substack or look for it on your podcast vendor of choice. My Substack Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me

    6min
  2. Ep 056 "Pearl Snap Tactical Interview with Mark Booher"

    11 DE NOV.

    Ep 056 "Pearl Snap Tactical Interview with Mark Booher"

    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 warp and woof of the probability and timeline of attack. Pearl Snap Tactical interview can be found here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-150848439?source=queue I talk about William Forstchen's "Day of Wrath" and Kurt Schlichter's "The Attack". References: William Forstchen Day of Wrath Kurt Schlichter The Attack Matt Bracken: Enemies Foreign and Domestic. Foreign Enemies And Traitors. Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista. The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun. Castigo Cay. Eric Frank Russell The Wasp Michael Z. Williamson The Weapon (and the entire Freehold series) Ernest R. May Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France Robert Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert Asprey War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla In History My Substack Email at cgpodcast@pm.me

    59min
  3. Ep 055 "The Shapiro-Ferguson Kerfuffle: History at War""

    28 DE OUT.

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

    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 horrified that non-credentialed historical observers are weighing in on the consequences of war in history. I urge everyone to deprogram yourselves and listen to the rogue but right historians like Martyrmade and ProfCJ's Dangerous History podcasts to get the better and more accurate view of what actually happened in the past that shapes our present. Here's what you must realize about war: wars are won by the least incompetent forces and the world will not be shiny and new at the conclusion but it will different. I address some of these issues. I would urge you to listen to CG podcast Episode 052 on Churchill for a more in-depth indictment of His Nibs. My blogging at the Libertarian Institute. My Substack Write me at cgpodcast@pm.me

    38min
  4. Ep 054 "CG Excursion: The American Military Empire is in Terminal Collapse"

    14 DE OUT.

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

    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 and the salvo competition costs are driven down. Hypervelocity munitions are here to stay. The life of the light infantryman will change significantly since for the first time in human history, the cost of hunting individual soldiers and small groups of soldiers in an effective fashion has reached a cost in concert with technology [I will treat this with more detail in a future episode on the end of the legacy infantryman]. In my next podcast, we will discuss how to recover from the current collapse. "Quantity has a quality all of its own." - Thomas A. Callaghan Jr. References: A Retrospective on RMA, 2000-2020. The Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of Age Army Futures Command Concept for Fires 2028 Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare Daniel Bolger Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Craig Whitlock The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War My Substack. Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

    1h3min
  5. Ep 053 "CG Excursion: The Revolution Will Be Televised: Near Peer and Peer Conflict in the 21st Century"

    30 DE SET.

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

    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 one place. Autonomous targeting will become more and more relevant as the speed of munitions increases and the salvo competition costs are driven down. Hypervelocity munitions are here to stay. The life of the light infantryman will change significantly since for the first time in human history, the cost of hunting individual soldiers and small groups of soldiers in an effective fashion has reached a cost in concert with technology [I will treat this with more detail in a future episode on the end of the legacy infantryman]. The Russian Strike Reconnaissance Complex has come of age and the Russians have one of the most effective fires synchronization modalities on Earth. The system is now battle proven in the first near-peer and peer conflict of the 21st century. Fires synchronization is the effective coordination of sensors and effectors in near-real time or real time in a hostile non-permissive combat environment to bring the metal on target. "Quantity has a quality all of its own." - Thomas A. Callaghan Jr. References: A Retrospective on RMA, 2000-2020. The Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of Age Army Futures Command Concept for Fires 2028 Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare Lester Grau & Charles K. Bartles The Russian Way of War: Force Structure, Tactics, and Modernization of the Russian Ground Forces David Glantz Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945 (Soviet (Russian) Study of War) David Glantz Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle (Soviet (Russian) Military Theory and Practice) Georgii Samoilovich Isserson G.S. Isserson and the War of the Future: Key Writings of a Soviet Military Theorist My Substack. Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

    1h2min
  6. Ep 052 "CG Excursion: Churchill: Imperial Bombast and the Death of the West"

    16 DE SET.

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

    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 Churchill was one of many villains during WWII. I am a reluctant Anglophile and I think historical revisionism is a healthy reaction to triumphalist historiography in the West that has made questioning accepted narratives a scholar crime. Listen to the interview yourself before arriving at any conclusions. References: William Manchester The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 Andrew Roberts Churchill: Walking with Destiny David Reynolds In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War John Charmley Churchill: The End of Glory : A Political Biography John Charmley Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship 1940-57 Gordan Corrigan BLOOD, SWEAT AND ARROGANCE: The Myth's of Churchill's War Madhusree Mukerjee Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II Thomas Ricks Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom Patrick J. Buchanan Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World Nicolai Tolstoy Victims of Yalta: The Secret Betrayal of the Allies: 1944-1947 Robert A. Pape Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War Ralph Raico on Rethinking Churchill The Libertarian Institute Blog My Substack Email at cgpodcast@pm.me

    1h1min
  7. Ep 051 "Cellular Ecology: Guerrilla Organizations and Grunt Math"

    2 DE SET.

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

    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 cooked up by the clownish FBI like the Whitmer disaster). References: How They Hunt AQ Training Manual The IRA Greenbook Hunting the Sleepers An Analysis of Al-Qaida Tradecraft Modeling Terrorist Networks - Complex Systems at the Mid-Range Understanding the Form, Function, and Logic of Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks: The First Step in Effective Counternetwork Operations HR Kedward In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944 George Millar Maquis: An Englishman in the French Resistance Ian Wellsted SAS with the Maquis: In Action with the French Resistance, June–September 1944 Stephen Biddle Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias My Substack Email at cgpodcast@pm.me

    1h6min
  8. Ep 050 "Storming America: TTP to Make you Free (Part II)"

    26 DE AGO.

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

    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 (TTP) the free range human can employ to prepare and protect themselves for the coming unpleasantness. I further discuss weapons, kit, preps and training to prepare for what I consider the inevitable conflict emerging in the West. One morning we will all wake up to simultaneous attacks by bad actors across the country on soft targets, if you agree with that morbid notion, you have an obligation to act since you are warned. References: Richard Feynman's Cargo Cult Commencement Address at CalTech 1974 Water Filter: Katadyn Pocket Water Filter for Backpacking, Group Camping & Emergency Preparedness Gunshot Trauma Kit/IFAK: EVERLIT Advanced Emergency Trauma Kit, CAT GEN-7 Tourniquet Tactical IFAK My Vehicle Kit: North American Rescue Squad Medics Kit (CCRK) w/ Free Retractable Shears Leash (Multicam) Rations: Humanitarian Daily Ration MRE Case 10 pack, Inspection Date 1/2024 or Better. https://premierbodyarmor.com/blogs/pba/understanding-body-armor-ratings https://backofbeyondsite.wordpress.com/2024/08/02/ammo-inventory/ INTERVIEW WITH C. REED KNIGHT, JR.: PART 2 Gordon L. Rottman World War II Allied Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps World War II Axis Booby Traps and Sabotage Tactics William Forstchen Day of Wrath Kurt Schlichter The Attack Karl Dahl Faction Faction: With the Crusaders Matt Bracken: Enemies Foreign and Domestic. Foreign Enemies And Traitors. Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista. Eric Frank Russell The Wasp Michael Z. Williamson The Weapon (and the entire Freehold series) My Substack Email at cgpodcast@pm.me

    55min
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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. Substack: Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute Chasing Ghosts Podcast on YouTube I am an Amazon Affiliate. You can contact me at cgpodcast@pm.me

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