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Military Aviation Joins the Emerging Competency Crisis in the West

by | May 1, 2024 |

Trend-lines on military aviation accidents are edging upwards to rival in the commercial aviation industry in mishaps. Not only is this a barometer for readiness and training but an indicator for the emerging competency crisis plaguing the West. Peacetime military aviation is dangerous. As of 9 April 2024, the Marine Corps sustained a sharp increase in Class A mishaps for the first and second quarters of 2024 with a rate of 4.31 per 100,000 flight hours, compared to a 10-year average of 2.24. There is a pretty good article that gives a fair overview of this brewing crisis here. Let's examine...

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Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures

by | Apr 30, 2024 |

Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) is communism in blackface. This viral contagion has raced to the top of government bureaucracies and, of course, facilitates a race to the bottom in quality and competence. The wizards at the Pentagon who have yet to account for and balance their books with trillions of taxpayer dollars can't answer a simple Congressional inquiry on how much they have wasted on woke propaganda. Yet someone had to account for distribution of the dollars in the first place, I suspect even they are embarrassed by the amount of money that has been spent on this hot garbage....

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US Abrams Tanks Withdrawn from Fighting in Ukraine

by | Apr 29, 2024 |

Five four million dollar tanks up in smoke. They'll make every excuse they wish but the days of manned tanks are over. Ukraine has lost five Abrams tanks in recent months, The New York Times reported this month, citing an unnamed senior US official. At least three more have been moderately damaged, Markus Reisner, an Austrian military trainer, told the outlet. Ukraine pulled its Abrams tanks from the front due to Russian drone tactics, US officials say...

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The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age

by | Apr 29, 2024 |

The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it cannot reliably launch and retrieve aircraft nor does it have a weapons elevator system that works all the time. Stop the madness. Although the Navy wants to achieve and maintain in coming years a fleet of 381 manned battle force ships, including 12 aircraft carriers, force-structure studies done by the Navy that eventually led...

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Ep 041 “Storming America: Intelligence Failure is Now and Forever”

by | Apr 29, 2024 |

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...

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John Boyd: Persona Non Grata at the Pentagon

by | Apr 22, 2024 |

COL John Boyd was quite the maverick in the military ranks and rocked the boat all the time. You will not though incredibly capable, he was never promoted to flag rank. One of the best insights he ever gave was that when one distills strategy simply, it is: encouraging alliances and isolating enemies. He was one of the few really critical thinkers who shifted the military strategic paradigms in a positive way in the twentieth century. Unfortunately, he never wrote a book. Here is his power-point presentation that spells out his notions in detail.

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Wheels Within Wheels: Complexity is Real in War

by | Apr 18, 2024 |

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tent-show whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.” - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian Sober observers may find another reason for the Iranian attack against Israel this month in...

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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 was a combat tourist in a number of neo-imperialist shit-pits planet-wide. He can be found on twitter at @wbuppert and reached via email at cgpodcast@pm.me.


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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

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From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...

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