Nassim Taleb

Ep 020 “COIN Malpractice: Lessons Never Learned, Part One”

by Bill Buppert | Jul 10, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast

Episode Notes That is GEN Stanley McChrystal's dream image of the totality of the COIN problem in Afghanistan. What a mess. It appears the West just can't get counterinsurgency right. I talk about some of the framework ideas that would be good lessons learned for...

Ep 019 “Murphy Rex: Complexity and War”

by Bill Buppert | Jun 26, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast

Episode Notes I discuss the complex adaptive system that is war that Clausewitz categorically identified as "friction" in the nineteenth century. We'll examine what chaos and complexity has to do with conflict, why it is inevitable and why wars are won by the least...

Ep 004 “The Impossibility of Successful Western Counterinsurgency”

by Bill Buppert | Nov 20, 2022 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast

Episode Notes Despite trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of deaths, the West has nothing to show for the counterinsurgency campaigns it has waged. Despite the enormous industry and vast intellectual and historical apologetics combine, the wasteland is...

Ep 002 “Antifragility and Irregular Warfare”

by Bill Buppert | Oct 10, 2022 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast

Episode Notes In this episode, I make the case that insurgencies are antifragile and that counterinsurgencies are fragile for the most part; we discuss the concepts, examine historical and contemporary examples and set the stage for practitioners and scholars to...

What Nassim Taleb Can Teach Us

by Jeff Deist | May 3, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics

Nassim Nicholas Taleb does not suffer fools gladly. Author of several books including The Black Swan and Antifragile, Taleb is known for his incendiary personality almost as much as his brilliant work in probability theory. Readers of his very active Medium page will...

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Interview: The Jewish Supremacist State’s Crimes Against Humanity

I explain how Israel is an unashamed Jewish supremacist state bent on subjugating or eliminating the indigenous Arab population of Palestine.

Trillions and Trillions! Money for Nothing at the Pentagon

On this day in 2001 (the day before the 9/11 attacks), Donald Rumsfeld said this: At the 14:15 mark, Rumsfeld says, “Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions. We cannot share information...

Dead in the Water: The US and Royal Gator Navies in a Death Spiral

Remember when USS Bonhomme Richard caught fire and burned for five days in San Diego? Or when the USS Boxer tried to deploy but broke its rudder. The USS Iwo Jima is now crippled. The Gator Navy is the amphibious warfare department of the USN and USMC. The USS Iwo...

You People Are All WRONG About Darryl Cooper, MartyrMade, Tucker Show Historian

This is Darryl Cooper on World War II and the Holocaust. Try listening to him instead of what the Party said he said. Aren't you people embarrassed for letting shameless liars tell you what to think? Do you think maybe you could take the lesson and become harder to...

The Carrier Narrative is Dying

Carrier skeptics have been hammering away at the anachronistic cargo cult of the aircraft carrier. The Navy has invested a significant amount of political capital and mountains of budget dollars to maintaining a fleet of these allegedly deadly weapons of war that were...

Darryl Cooper on the Holocaust

Cooper is an American hero. Whatever the giant-jawed Zionist propagandists at Reason magazine say, the truth is always the opposite. Subscribe to the MartyrMade podcast here.

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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism

by Keith Knight

Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...

Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...