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Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast

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

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Ep 076 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/12/08

I offer my scorched earth solutions to fighting Antifa and communism in the US..America is in a Civil War with a major political party and its blacked-shirted paramilitary arm going from cold to hot war.Prepare accordingly.Part Four at Episode 075Part Three at Episode 074Part Two at Episode 073Part One at Episode 072.I did a primer on cell organization in Ep 051 "Cellular Ecology: Guerrilla Organizations and Grunt Math".References:House Un-American Activities Committee records, 1945-1975How They

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Ep 075 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/11/24

I further examine the educational feeder mechanism for communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-government. In this third episode, I examine the pedagogical origins of government supremacist ideology in American schools.America is in a Civil War with a major political party and its blacked-shirted paramilitary arm going from cold to hot war.Prepare accordingly.Part Three at Episode 074Part Two at Episode 073Part One at Episode 072.I

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Ep 074 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/11/10

I examine the feeder mechanism for communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-government. In this third episode, we examine the epistemology that created a rump state of communist resistance in America. now.America is in a Civil War with a major political party and its blacked-shirted paramilitary arm going from cold to hot war.Prepare accordingly.Part Two at Episode 73Part One at Episode 72.I did a primer on cell organization in Ep

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Ep 073 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/10/27

I examine the domestic communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-government. In this second episode, we examine the history that brought the US to the brink of civil war it is at now.America is in a Civil War with a major political party and its blacked-shirted paramilitary arm going from cold to hot war.Prepare accordingly.Part One at Episode 72.I did a primer on cell organization in Ep 051 "Cellular Ecology: Guerrilla Organizations

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Ep 072 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/10/13

I examine the domestic communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-governments;. In this first episode, we shall examine origins, terminology and some expositions on methodology.America is in a Civil War with a major political party and its blacked-shirted paramilitary arm going from cold to hot war.Prepare accordingly.I did a primer on cell organization in Ep 051 "Cellular Ecology: Guerrilla Organizations and Grunt

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Ep 071 "The Devil's Thermostat: Turning Up the Heat...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/09/22

This episode examines civil war manifesting itself in the US and the world over the next few years and makes a forecast on how close we are on the doomsday clock of civil war on American soil.The probability and possibility of civil kinetic conflict in the US is closer than in decades..My Storming America Series covers the gamut of what a spontaneous attack in the US will look like when terror cells launch a simultaneous attack on the US homeland which in my mind is the primary man-made vector for

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Ep 070 "Bolivar's Revenge: The Venezuelan Tar Pit and...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/09/08

We examine the emerging Venezuelan kerfuffle.There are many currents and undercurrents in the latest incipient war debacle in America history. This will be a disaster for America if it clacks off and; expect the American government to make this a preamble to go kinetic on the drug war generally and the following catastrophes.I covered this in detail in both parts of Ep 059 and 059 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End".Gird your loins for the first war in American history that will lead to

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Ep 069 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time and the...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/08/04

It's been quite some time since I have responded to "mail" so I have curated five questions to address:.What are your personal weapons of choice: rifle or pistol?How do you fix the defense acquisition system?Is the American military really in terminal collapse?Storming America; is it still coming to the US?Is America headed to civil war?I'll offer some more recommendations and a path forward.References:RAND wish-casting on drones in 2015.Slaughterbots (2017)Slaughterbots: if human: kill() (2021)How

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Ep 068 "The Military Drone Revolution: Make All Flesh...

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2025/07/07

Despite what you are told by the mainstream news sources in the media, the drone war is here to stay and it will be the most significant war modality for the next generation. It has literally exposed all ground troops and the exquisite platforms the West relies upon in war-making for detailed neutralization and destruction.In concert with the democratized distribution of ubiquitous missile technology, it is the end of Western dominance in warfare.Despite what you may think, the US conventional

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Ep 067 "The Mountains of Madness: Military Defeat and...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/06/23

This will be the first CG episode to get the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series. The WarNotes episode catalog has been completely re-fabbed using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth.Let me know what you think.We discuss the latest missteps by the West in Iran.The recent American involvement in direct military intervention in Iran changed the temper and nature of the war inevitably.I assess how the RMAs rapidly displacing

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Ep 066 "Civil War on the Horizon: The Empire Strikes...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/06/16

This episode examines civil war manifesting itself in the world in the west in the 21st century and some of my modest forecasts of war weather in the next few years.Dr. David Betz and others have started to float the balloons of probability and possibility of civil kinetic conflict in the West.My Storming America Series covers the gamut of what a spontaneous attack in the US will look like when terror cells launch a simultaneous attack on the US homeland which in my mind is the primary man-made

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Ep 065 "Color Revolutions: Weaponizing Subterfuge"

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/06/02

We discuss coups, color revolutions and the changing face of political manipulation in the world.The world is not what it seems even in non-military political manipulation. The hybrid and grey zone conflict is real. Color revolution have hijacked Western democracy and precipitated he slow decline of modern civilization.ReferencesGlobal Instances of Coups from 1950 to 2010: A New DatasetColpus DatasetKGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to AmericaA Retrospective on RMA, 2000-2020.Edward Luttwak Coup

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Ep 064 "War and Remembrance: Drawing the Wrong Lessons"

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2025/05/26

Memorial Day is a day to reflect on the existential moral outrage and trail of tears American military might has draped over the planet since the end of the nineteenth century.Wars of choice are by their very nature a path to corruption, excess and unintended consequences.The concept of moral injuries for soldiers and non-soldiers alike, the gift of fear and being a dead man walking and how to handle regret and shame.“As beasts are beneath human restraints, gods are above them... It would be

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Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War"

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/05/05

Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place left of bang or during war with the object the weakening of the military effort by an adversary.Military sabotage has been taking place since the early military adventures of men. The apocryphal story of the Trojan Horse is an ancient example and variations on the theme echo through

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Ep 062 "Storming America: One Year Later"

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/04/14

This episode examines American landscape one year later and whether the probability of attack is reduced or increased.My Storming America Series covers the gamut of what the spontaneous attack in the US will look like when terror cells launch a simultaneous attack on the US homeland.I cover it in Episodes 37, 41-43 and 49-50 of my Chasing Ghosts podcast.I discuss the outcome of the probable jihadist invasion of America. America is in a unique position in history in which it has facilitated the

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Ep 061 "The Mountains of Madness: Military Defeat and...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/03/31

With Western conflict possible in Yemen and Iran, I discuss the vagaries and verities of mountain warfare. The special hell of high altitude and colder temperatures and their effect on fighting and warfare.I assess how the RMAs rapidly displacing centuries-old conflict norms are going to look for the remainder of the century.Buppert’s Law of Military Topography:“Mountainous terrain held by riflemen who know what they are about cannot be militarily defeated.”References:Points of Resistance and

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Ep 060 "The Military Historian's Craft: Past Tense...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/03/17

I am an un-credentialed amateur historian who has done very little archive work and lack the substantial infrastructure credentialed historians have to practice their craft. I have debated esteemed historians and won on stage (Daniel Walker Howe looked at my CV and did not prepare) but that doesn't make me better than them.I think my various detours in life mostly outside the formal academy gives me a unique insight into how history works and why I think I am more sober than university historians.I

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Ep 059 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End...

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/03/03

Here is Part One:Ep 058 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part One"We continue the inquiry into the implications and future returns on going kinetic in the drug war as elucidated by worthies in the new administration.I examine the implications and the second and third order effects of this endeavor which is, by extension, a declaration of war on the Mexican government.***Anyone attending the Special Operations Forces Week festivities in Tampa on 5-8 May 2025?If so, we should arrange a

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Ep 058 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End"

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2025/02/10

Chasing Ghosts is back!There has been chatter and enthusiasm to use military means to take on the drugs and human trafficking organizations and cartels in Mexico (and I imagine the cartels in the north in Canada), this will not end well.I examine the implications and the second and third order effects of this endeavor which is, by extension, a declaration of war on the Mexican government.References:Benjamin T. Smith The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug TradeAnabel Hernandez Narcoland: The

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CG Announcement November 2024

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast ·

2024/11/25

I will be pausing Chasing Ghosts from its fortnightly cadence of issuance for the remainder of the year.I am taking the time to regroup and focus on the new occasional podcast series, WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast as a companion podcast focusing on conventional conflict and strategic thought.I think the new election results may be the time for the western military complexes to take a knee and refocus and re-calibrate strategic and grand strategic opportunities in addressing the real-time shortfalls

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