Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast Bill Buppert

I discuss a rather technical treatment of developing and using Concepts of Operations (CONOPS).
This episode examines the timeless and tedious process of getting baselines and expectations right for small and large projects alike.
References:
Special Forces Detachment Mission Planning Guide GTA 31-01-003 January 2020
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STANDARD PRACTICE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES FOR DEFENSE MATERIEL ITEMS MILSTD 881F 13 May 2022
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook Rev 2
Cost of 13 NASA projects skyrocket due to improper reviews
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I discuss the outcome of the probable jihadist invasion of America. America is in a unique position in history in which it has facilitated the unfettered invasion of its borders and a large swath of military age males have been granted asylum or gone undetected to link up with legacy underground Islamist and terrorist groups across the country.
This episodes examines the smoking ruins and speculate what the next stage of American civilization will look like.
References:
Howard Jones My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
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.
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

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In this episode I discuss what the attack looks like in America.
This is not if, this is when.
The country is poised to experience this through a combination of neglect and the sheer hubris of meddling in the world without realize the unintended consequences.
I wish I had better news but you have been warned, it's on the horizon.
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
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This is a continuation of my "Storming America Series" where I will tease out and describe why the inevitable internal attack on America by external forces will be made real.
In this episode, I will examine what intelligence looks like from a professional perspective and why America and the West consistently engage in existential chaos avalanches that make the world a worse place.
The bureaucratic impulse in the West has been a significant factor in making the intelligence community (IC), like the military community, a paper tiger that is a far greater danger to the inhabitants of the west than an ally. Until the IC is restructured and made more effective, it will consume roughly 100 billion a year to produce shoddy analysis, inform bad policy and a Keystone Kops foreign covert operations history that is a national shame.
Like 9/11 and its existential failures, the next attack on America will have them simply asking for more money and more power.
If you leveled the FBI, NSA and CIA tomorrow morning, made each of their budgets one dollar and fired all their employees, you would still be safe as a country.
References:
Richard J. Heuer The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
David Talbot The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
Mortimer Adler How to Read a Book
Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
John Prado The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness
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This episode will be an addendum to my initial coverage in October 2023 of the Gaza-Israel conflict in Episode 027 and riffing off the domestic implications in Episode 037 of a similar attack on CONUS. If you wish to listen to those before you do this one, you may but I have crafted this so that isn’t necessary.
The clock is closer to midnight than it was in October 2023.
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
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I am reusing a previous episode I used in the now moribund Stoicism podcast I started, The Dash, which I ran out of steam on.
Applying Stoic values and discipline to the vocation and avocations we practice in life may be the hardest part outside of making a Stoic life a lived lifestyle. I find the management industry is a giant cargo cult that publishes books whose pages number in the hundreds but could simply be a page or two.
References:
James Clear Atomic Habits
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
Whitney J. Oakes (editor) The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers: The Complete Extant Writings of Epicurus, Epictetus, Lucretius and Marcus Aurelius
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