Episode 021 “Strategic Deficit Disorder: National Malpractice and the Perils of the Death of Statecraft”

by | Jul 27, 2026

Episode 021 “Strategic Deficit Disorder: National Malpractice and the Perils of the Death of Statecraft”

by | Jul 27, 2026

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I further examine the strategic deficit disorder that absolutely dominates the US and western military establishments.

America has a singular inability to execute large and complex wars without failing in a spectacular fashion.

I speak to the tools and critical thinking modalities that could spark and encourage competent martial imagination. Moral courage is necessary to tell the flag officer dullards and their Senior Executive Service (SES) necromancers that the emperor has no clothes.

Recommended Listening:

On Strategic Empathy

Recommended Reading:

Michael Mazarr Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy

Williamson Murray The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War

Frans Osinga Science, Strategy and War (Strategy and History)

Stephen Robinson The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War

Christian Madsbjerg Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm

Johnson and Abbe Developing Strategic Empathy and Perspective Taking in Military

Zachary Shore A Sense of the Enemy: The High Stakes History of Reading Your Rival’s Mind

Dave Snowden Cynefin – Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World

US Army Center of Military History

My Substack

Email at cgpodcast@pm.me

Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert is the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and a contributor over time to various liberty endeavors. He served in the military for nearly a quarter century and contractor tours after retirement on occasion and was a combat tourist in a number of neo-imperialist shit-pits around the world.

He can be found on twitter at @wbuppert and reached via email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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