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 fighting the other conflicts, irregular warfare, historically and contemporaneously so bloody badly. I will seek to lighten the mood a tad there (especially with holidays approaching).
In this new venture, I want to expand my portfolio of investigation and elucidation on war in the broader scope. I want to leave the more arcane and less well-known milieu of the other warfare to examine conventional war and the emerging tableau of near-peer and peer fighting that I am dead certain will raise its bloody hand in this century because humans simply can’t help themselves.
I will paint a dim and shabby picture of the state of American and western arms in this chapter but I want to take a deep dive in the succeeding episodes of what America can do to create a more effective military in the remainder o the 21st century; maybe the defense intellectuals and personnel at the Pentagon and the halls of western military power can pause to reassess, re-frame and find a more realistic means to exercise martial power.
I’ll offer some recommendations.
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