Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast
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Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast

by Bill Buppert

An unauthorized podcast series peeking behind the curtain at the vast machinery and briar patch politics of fighting terrorism and insurgency and everything in between. I'm a "COINtra" and not a "COINdinista", the latter are the vast army of apparatchiks and apologists who fire the engines of Irregular Warfare (IW) planet-wide. We're the skeptics and doubters of all things IW and special operations. And we are a tiny sliver of the IW community. I have noticed a jarring gap in this part of the discussion and intend on filling the breach.Substack: Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare PodcastSmedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian InstituteChasing Ghosts Podcast on YouTubeI am an Amazon Affiliate.You can contact me at cgpodcast@pm.me

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1
Ep 079 "Iran, Salvo Competition and the Inevitable Stalemate"
43:53 Mar 16, 2026
2
Ep 078 "Iran and I Lost: The American Empire Tilts Again"
44:51 Mar 2, 2026
3
Ep 077 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time and the Backbenchers Lament 26.1"
50:37 Jan 6, 2026
4
Ep 076 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Five (Conclusions)"
1:03:34 Dec 8, 2025
5
Ep 075 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Four"
57:24 Nov 24, 2025
6
Ep 074 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Three"
57:21 Nov 10, 2025
7
Ep 073 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Two"
54:17 Oct 27, 2025
8
Ep 072 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part One"
55:54 Oct 13, 2025
9
Ep 071 "The Devil's Thermostat: Turning Up the Heat on American Civil War"
1:00:43 Sep 22, 2025
10
Ep 070 "Bolivar's Revenge: The Venezuelan Tar Pit and American Ambition"
1:02:11 Sep 8, 2025
11
Ep 069 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time and the Backbenchers Lament 25.1"
1:04:06 Aug 4, 2025
12
Ep 068 "The Military Drone Revolution: Make All Flesh Forfeit"
59:44 Jul 7, 2025
13
Ep 067 "The Mountains of Madness: Military Defeat and Terrain Part II"
54:44 Jun 23, 2025
14
Ep 066 "Civil War on the Horizon: The Empire Strikes Back"
1:06:16 Jun 16, 2025
15
Ep 065 "Color Revolutions: Weaponizing Subterfuge"
51:42 Jun 2, 2025
16
Ep 064 "War and Remembrance: Drawing the Wrong Lessons"
55:21 May 26, 2025
17
Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War"
1:02:27 May 5, 2025
18
Ep 062 "Storming America: One Year Later"
56:36 Apr 14, 2025
19
Ep 061 "The Mountains of Madness: Military Defeat and Terrain Part I"
53:28 Mar 31, 2025
20
Ep 060 "The Military Historian's Craft: Past Tense Imperfect"
51:52 Mar 17, 2025
21
Ep 059 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part Two"
59:20 Mar 3, 2025
22
Ep 058 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part One"
55:10 Feb 10, 2025
23
Ep 057: "CG Announcement November 2024: WarNotes Podcast Rising"
6:14 Nov 25, 2024
24
Ep 056 "Pearl Snap Tactical Interview with Mark Booher"
58:36 Nov 11, 2024
25
Ep 055 "The Shapiro-Ferguson Kerfuffle: History at War""
38:26 Oct 28, 2024
26
Ep 054 "CG Excursion: The American Military Empire is in Terminal Collapse"
1:03:19 Oct 14, 2024
27
Ep 053 "CG Excursion: The Revolution Will Be Televised: Near Peer and Peer Conflict in the 21st Century"
1:01:34 Sep 30, 2024
28
Ep 052 "CG Excursion: Churchill: Imperial Bombast and the Death of the West"
1:01:28 Sep 16, 2024
29
Ep 051 "Cellular Ecology: Guerrilla Organizations and Grunt Math"
1:05:38 Sep 2, 2024
30
Ep 050 "Storming America: TTP to Make you Free (Part II)"
55:24 Aug 26, 2024
31
Ep 049 "Storming America: TTP to Make you Free (Part I)"
1:07:04 Aug 12, 2024
32
Ep 048 "CG Excursion: Peer Strike ISR Complex: The Need for Rational Fires Coordination"
1:22:34 Jul 29, 2024
33
Ep 047 "Nagorno-Karabakh: A Dark and Robotic Future"
47:17 Jul 15, 2024
34
Ep 046 "Review and Discussion: My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness by Howard Jones"
53:55 Jul 1, 2024
35
Ep 045 "CG Excursion Praxis: Rational Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) (Part Two)"
56:22 Jun 17, 2024
36
Ep 044 "CG Excursion Praxis: Rational Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) (Part One)"
59:43 Jun 3, 2024
37
Ep 043 "Storming America: The Aftermath"
57:15 May 27, 2024
38
Ep 042 "Storming America: War Comes Home"
58:03 May 13, 2024
39
Ep 041 "Storming America: Intelligence Failure is Now and Forever"
1:24:14 Apr 29, 2024
40
Ep 040 "The Middle East: Shuffling to the Apocalypse (Part Two)""
55:22 Apr 15, 2024
41
Ep 039 "CG Excursion: Stoicism: Who Dares Leads"
31:03 Apr 1, 2024
42
Ep 038 "Moral Injury: The Invisible Warrior Marks"
26:39 Mar 18, 2024
43
Ep 037 "Storming America: Another War Will Come Home"
1:13:36 Mar 4, 2024
44
Ep 036 "Drunk on Direct Action: The Destruction of Army Special Forces in the GWOT"
44:51 Feb 19, 2024
45
Ep 035 "Review and Discussion: Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch"
46:05 Feb 5, 2024
46
Ep 034 "CG Excursions: Deep Six the Carrier Force: Naval Power in the 21st Century"
49:17 Jan 22, 2024
47
Ep 033 "CG Excursions: Salvo Competition and the Big Fight"
1:03:24 Jan 8, 2024
48
Ep 032 "US Military Special Operations Forces Can't Do UW (Part Two)"
35:20 Dec 26, 2023
49
Ep 031 "US Military Special Operations Forces Can't Do UW (Part One)"
49:08 Dec 18, 2023
50
Ep 030 "US Military Special Operations Forces: US Army Special Forces"
58:00 Dec 4, 2023
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