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...
Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Ep 032 “US Military Special Operations Forces Can’t Do UW (Part Two)”
by Bill Buppert | Dec 26, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes The emerging anti-fragile forces of indigenous irregular warfare forces in concert or independent of near-peer and peer competitors challenging US and western global hegemony are on the march and will in the end succeed. References: Douglas Porch...
Ep 031 “US Military Special Operations Forces Can’t Do UW (Part One)”
by Bill Buppert | Dec 18, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes In this episode, I will be a heretic to the current military establishment in America and the west. They can't do unconventional warfare and I must be very specific in the conditional problem I propose: the western military has no capability to conduct...
Ep 030 “US Military Special Operations Forces: US Army Special Forces”
by Bill Buppert | Dec 4, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode notes Here we do a deep dive in US Army Special Forces (SF) and why a complete overhaul is needed to resurrect the original charter to save SF from itself. Over two decades of fighting neo-colonial conflicts throughout the Middle East and Africa has decimated...
Ep 029 “US Military Special Operations Forces: US Army”
by Bill Buppert | Nov 20, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes Today, I'll do a deep dive into the US Army vanilla SOF organizations and get acquainted with the capabilities and opportunities for US Army special operations. References: Douglas Porch Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War Ann...
Ep 028 “US Military Special Operations Forces: A Primer”
by Bill Buppert | Nov 13, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes A brief introduction to the Department of Defense activities in special operations. I will not be discussing the dark organizations and specifically address the "vanilla" SOF in all the services. References: Douglas Porch Counterinsurgency: Exposing the...
Ep 027 “The Middle East: Shuffling to the Apocalypse”
by Bill Buppert | Oct 30, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes We discuss the Israeli emergency in its latest iteration in the horrific attacks by Hamas into Israel in October 2023 and the simmering conflict bands that are emerging globally in which this is another explosion in the global conflict rift. For those...
Ep 026 “Review and Discussion: Tattoo Zoo by Paul Avallone”
by Bill Buppert | Oct 2, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes Every war has a seminal novel, a book that really resonates with generation that wrote it and the following generations from the Iliad to Gore Vidal's historical fiction to The Centurions by Jean Larteguy to From Here to Eternity by James Jones to this...