This episode examines American landscape one year later and whether the probability of attack is reduced or increased. My Storming America Series covers the gamut of what the spontaneous attack in the US will look like when terror cells launch a simultaneous attack on...
Chasing Ghosts Podcast

Ep 061 “The Mountains of Madness: Military Defeat and Terrain”
by Bill Buppert | Mar 31, 2025 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
With Western conflict possible in Yemen and Iran, I discuss the vagaries and verities of mountain warfare. The special hell of high altitude and colder temperatures and their effect on fighting and warfare. I assess how the RMAs rapidly displacing centuries-old...

Ep 060 “The Military Historian’s Craft: Past Tense Imperfect”
by Bill Buppert | Mar 17, 2025 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
New Chasing Ghosts Podcast episode is live Monday 17 March 2025. I am an un-credentialed amateur historian who has done very little archive work and lack the substantial infrastructure credentialed historians have to practice their craft. I have debated esteemed...
Ep 059 “The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part Two”
by Bill Buppert | Mar 3, 2025 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
We continue the inquiry into the implications and future returns on going kinetic in the drug war as elucidated by worthies in the new administration. I examine the implications and the second and third order effects of this endeavor which is, by extension, a...
Ep 058 “The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part One”
by Bill Buppert | Feb 10, 2025 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Ouroboros in the new age... There has been chatter and enthusiasm to use military means to take on the drugs and human trafficking organizations and cartels in Mexico (and I imagine the cartels in the north in Canada), this will not end well. I examine the...
Ep 057: “CG Announcement November 2024: WarNotes Podcast Rising”
by Bill Buppert | Nov 25, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Me contemplating the Herculean task before me... I will be pausing Chasing Ghosts from its fortnightly cadence of issuance for the remainder of the year and part of the next year. I am taking the time to regroup and focus on the new occasional podcast series,...

Ep 056 “Pearl Snap Tactical Interview with Mark Booher”
by Bill Buppert | Nov 11, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Mark Booher at Pearl Snap Tactical interviewed me discussing irregular warfare and the threat to the homeland. We discuss irregular warfare and the impacts of an up-sized catastrophic attack on the US homeland. We riff on and discuss my "Storming America" series...

Ep 055 “The Shapiro-Ferguson Kerfuffle: History at War”
by Bill Buppert | Oct 28, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
I am the Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute. They asked me to comment on the recent podcast interview between Ben Shapiro and Niall Ferguson which of course, was a reaction to Darryl Cooper's (Martyrmade Podcast) recent...