Publishers Note: This episode will be an addendum to my initial coverage in October 2023 of the Gaza-Israel conflict in Episode 027 and riffing off the domestic implications in Episode 037 of a similar attack on CONUS. You can find those episodes here in the podcast...
Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode 039: CG Excursion: Stoicism: Who Dares Leads
by Bill Buppert | Apr 1, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes I am reusing a previous episode I used in the now moribund Stoicism podcast I started, The Dash, which I ran out of steam on. In the interest of preserving what I thought was a worthy explication of aspects of Stoicism. I present this as an excursion....
Episode 038 “Moral Injury: The Invisible Warrior Marks”
by Bill Buppert | Mar 18, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes “As beasts are beneath human restraints, gods are above them... It would be foolish and untruthful to deny the appeal of exalted, godlike intoxication....We have seen the paradox that these godlike exalted moments often correspond to times when the men...
Ep 037 “Storming America: Another War Will Come Home”
by Bill Buppert | Mar 4, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes The hybrid and gray zone fight will come to America in the next war. Once the declining American colossus shuffles into the next near-peer and peer conflict, the 21st century will see the continental US come under a unified attack by external forces for...
Ep 036 “Drunk on Direct Action: The Destruction of Army Special Forces in the GWOT”
by Bill Buppert | Feb 19, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes The direct action concentration of US Army Special Forces (SF) in the conduct of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan at the expense of the specialized and storied legend of what SF could do in non-permissive environments raising partisan forces behind enemy...
Ep 035 “Review and Discussion: Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch”
by Bill Buppert | Feb 5, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes Everyone and everything has an origin story, while I had a sneaking suspicion early on in my modest career in special operations and irregular warfare (IW) that something was fundamentally wrong with the western way of war in these endeavors, it was...
Ep 034 “CG Excursions: Deep Six the Carrier Force: Naval Power in the 21st Century”
by Bill Buppert | Jan 22, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes The aircraft carrier has been a signature component of US naval power and prestige for more than a century. The utility has continued to diminish since the end of WWII. The tremendous disadvantage of putting so much manpower and treasure into these...
Ep 033 “CG Excursions: Salvo Competition and the Big Fight”
by Bill Buppert | Jan 8, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode notes Excursions will be a new addition to the CG universe to cover adjacent conflict issues to the irregular warfare fight. In the future near-peer and peer fight, salvo competition will be the preeminent means by which one country will kinetically overwhelm...