Premier WarNotes Podcast episode is live Monday 18 November 2024. Ep 001 "Fixing Fight Club: The Collapse of American Military Power" Here's the premier episode of my new podcast, WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast and I am introducing the first series of 'casts I will do on base-lining problems and offering solutions to the immense military incompetence, malfeasance and rank stupidity that informs so much of contemporary Western military history. In the companion Chasing Ghosts podcast I produce, I am often scolded on being so overwhelmingly negative in my portrait of America and the west...

Don't believe the Pentagon is capable of not only accounting for its present year's spending but the aggregate of materiel and expenditure on its books from past years. Boldly matching their record for military success, the DoD continues to cook the books it can't balance. The Pentagon on Friday failed its seventh audit in a row, with the nation’s largest government agency still unable to fully account for its more than $824 billion budget, though officials stress they are making good progress toward a clean audit in 2028. *** The goal is to earn an unmodified audit opinion, or a clean audit...

The anti-human creed of woketopia appears to be on the ropes. First Rule of Woke Club: you have zero accountability for any personal failure or rake-stomping you do. Second Rule of Woke Club: whatever skin suit you wear, your core being is victim-hood. Third Rule of Woke Club: everyone must worship your mental illness. You’re welcome. Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me

A 2022 document. In service of the green agenda, the RANDians have lost their minds...again. Stop funding the RAND Corporation; zero out all government funding to it. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA1500/RRA1524-2/RAND_RRA1524-2.pdf My Substack Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me

I am debuting an occasional broadcast called WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast in the next week. It allows me to expand my inquiry into the martial phenomenon beyond the strictures of the niche irregular warfare rubric I labor under in Chasing Ghosts. I’ll dabble in history, contemporary mayhem and conflict futurism as my path-finding takes me on different azimuths. Stay tuned. The Earth is shifting; stay ahead of the curve. My Substack Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me

The genius public relations mandarins at the Joint F35 program office apparently can't identify the aircraft they have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on. The picture above appears to be the Chinese J35 facsimile of the F35. You can't make this up. The chaos avalanche is increasing in severity weekly. We have many questions. Mainly: Where did those twin engines on the JPO image come from? The F-35 uses a single Pratt & Whitney F135 turbofan engine (in two different variants, depending on the aircraft), whereas the fighter in the JPO tweet appears to resemble the twin-engine...

A photograph taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, on the eastern crest of Bud Dajo. (John R. White Papers, Knight Library, University of Oregon) “Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.” The events at Bud Dajo in the Philippines will cure you of that happy salutation. What!  I hear this familiar refrain again and again every November.  I am appalled whenever this unthinking salutation is proffered. I am a retired career Army officer and like USMC General Smedley Butler before me, I find these sentiments to be hogwash. The only service...