Episode Notes
Government, for a variety of reasons, is manifestly incompetent in everything it does and this lends parts of the explanatory framework in why systemic failure is the feature not a bug in Western martial efforts. The critiques of the government supremacist mindset are legion and one can find many rational and elegant theses if you start at the Mises Institute and listen to the podcasts of Scott Horton at Antiwar.com.
Scott and I recently did a deep dive together in Episode 5850 “Bill Buppert: A Deep Dive into Irregular Warfare” on 17 February 2023.
Books and movies discussed with Scott Horton:
Discussed on the Scott Horton Show:
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- Quigley Down Under (IMDb)
- “A Clean Break” (The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies)
- Stalin’s War by Sean McMeekin
- Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen
- Kill Bin Laden by Thomas Greer AKA Dalton Fury
- “This Air Force commando called in 688,000 pounds of bombs in one battle” (Task & Purpose)
- Bush at War by Bob Woodward
- Leap of Faith by Michael J. Mazarr
- Why The Vietnam War? by the great Mike Swanson
- Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse
- Dangerous History Podcast Woodrow Wilson Series, Part 1
- Wilson’s War by Jim Powell
- FDR’s Folly by Jim Powell
- Yesterday’s Man by Branko Marcetic
- By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky
- Dying to Win by Robert Pape
References [Episode 12]:
Ludwig von Mises Bureaucracy
Colin Gray Modern Strategy
Thomas Sowell Knowledge and Decision
Daniel P. Bolger How We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Write me at cgpodcast@pm.me
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