I further examine the strategic deficit disorder that absolutely dominates the US and western military establishments. America has a singular inability to execute large and complex wars without failing in a spectacular fashion. I speak to the tools and critical...

The Greenland debacle is bringing the NATO relationship into better focus on just how bad the EU/SSR has become. America should take a non-interventionist pause and get its internal house in order before standing astride the world again and lighting fires that never...

Effective June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth. The banal and humble generator set is a secret to destroying US combat power. I wanted to flesh out a thought...

I discuss the thumbnail sketches of US military failure since the end of WWI and try to elucidate some of the reasons for the failure and the existential threat this cavalcade of calamities is to 21st century America if the ship of state doesn't reverse course. This a...

"The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers *** Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes...

A continued discussion of the NATO debacle. It is time for America to completely reassess alliances and partnership around the world starting with NATO and then working its way down the list of useless and toxic relationships and promises to commit American blood and...

This episode examines what private military companies and campaigns look like. I discuss traditional and emerging trends in private military warfare which tends to still take place in nation-state warfare. While combat support and combat service support billets have...

I am taking a brief pause to reassess and re-calibrate the direction of my two podcasts. Take the time to do the same. Despite what you may think, the US conventional forces are in terminal collapse and completely unprepared for 21st century peer conflict. Keep...