The Royal Navy is experiencing readiness and maintenance shortfalls in its submarine force that is similar to the throughput problems for the US nuclear submarine forces. The logistical tail for exquisite platforms like nuclear submarines is enormous and a first world...
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Ep 045 “CG Excursion Praxis: Rational Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) (Part Two)”
I continue my discussion of a rather technical treatment of developing and using Concepts of Operations (CONOPS). This episode further examines the timeless and tedious process of getting baselines and expectations right for small and large projects alike. References:...
Ep 044 “CG Excursion Praxis: Rational Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) (Part One)”
I discuss a rather technical treatment of developing and using Concepts of Operations (CONOPS). This episode examines the timeless and tedious process of getting baselines and expectations right for small and large projects alike. References: Special Forces Detachment...
Ep 036 “Drunk on Direct Action: The Destruction of Army Special Forces in the GWOT”
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”
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 032 “US Military Special Operations Forces Can’t Do UW (Part Two)”
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)”
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”
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...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
