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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 discussion and intend on filling the breach.

    Substack: Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast

    Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute

    Chasing Ghosts Podcast on YouTube

    I am an Amazon Affiliate.

    You can contact me at cgpodcast@pm.me

    Advertise

    Copyright: © Bill Buppert 2022-2024

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    Latest Episodes:
    Ep 078 "Iran and I Lost: The American Empire Tilts Again" Mar 02, 2026
    Show notes

    With Western conflict in Iran escalating and in train, I discuss the vagaries and verities of the nuclear gambit in Iran in the Middle East and what this will mean to the future of warfare for the reminder of this century.

    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.”

    For other insight on Iran, I recommend CG episodes 061 and 067.

    References:

    Points of Resistance and Departure: An interview with James C. Scott

    Lester Grau and Charles J. Bartles Mountain Warfare and Other Lofty Problems: Foreign mountain combat veterans discuss movement and maneuver, training and resupply (Helion Studies in Military History)

    Lester Grau The Bear Went Over The Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics In Afghanistan [Illustrated Edition]

    Lester Grau The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War

    Mark Thompson The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919

    James C. Scott The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    Sun Tzu The Art of War

    Carl von Clausewitz On War

    Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

    H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare

    Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

    Qiao Liang & Wang XiangsuiUnrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America

    My Substack:

    https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.


    Ep 077 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time and the Backbenchers Lament 26.1" Jan 06, 2026
    Show notes

    It's been quite some time since I have responded to "mail" so I have curated five questions to address:.

    1. What are your thoughts on the Maduro and VZ kerfuffle?
    2. How do you fix the defense acquisition system and fraud?
    3. What should the US Navy do in the 21st century?
    4. How did GEN Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck do it (preview)?
    5. Are American SOF capable of 21st century mission success?

    References:

    Soryu (16SS) class Attack Submarine - SSK

    Robert Gaudi African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918

    David Smith The East Africa Campaign 1914–18: Von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Masterpiece (Campaign, 379)

    RAND wish-casting on drones in 2015.

    Slaughterbots (2017)

    Slaughterbots: if human: kill() (2021)

    How are Drones Changing Modern Warfare?

    Sun Tzu The Art of War

    Carl von Clausewitz On War

    Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

    H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare

    Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

    Qiao Liang & Wang XiangsuiUnrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America

    My Substack

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me


    Ep 076 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Five (Conclusions)" Dec 08, 2025
    Show notes

    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 075

    Part Three at Episode 074

    Part Two at Episode 073

    Part 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, 1945-1975

    How They Hunt

    Why Schools Don't Educate by John Taylor Gatto

    F A Hayek The Intellectuals and Socialism

    Bryan Borrough Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

    Andy NgoUnmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

    AQ Training Manual

    The IRA Greenbook

    Hunting the Sleepers

    An Analysis of Al-Qaida Tradecraft

    Modeling Terrorist Networks - Complex Systems at the Mid-Range

    Understanding the Form, Function, and Logic of Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks: The First Step in Effective Counternetwork Operations

    Stephen Biddle Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

    My Substack

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me


    Ep 075 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Four" Nov 24, 2025
    Show notes

    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 074

    Part Two at Episode 073

    Part 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, 1945-1975

    How They Hunt

    Why Schools Don't Educate by John Taylor Gatto

    ***

    F A Hayek The Intellectuals and Socialism

    Bryan Borrough Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

    Andy NgoUnmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

    AQ Training Manual

    The IRA Greenbook

    Hunting the Sleepers

    An Analysis of Al-Qaida Tradecraft

    Modeling Terrorist Networks - Complex Systems at the Mid-Range

    Understanding the Form, Function, and Logic of Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks: The First Step in Effective Counternetwork Operations

    Stephen Biddle Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

    My Substack

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me


    Ep 074 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Three" Nov 10, 2025
    Show notes

    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 73

    Part One at Episode 72.

    I did a primer on cell organization in Ep 051 "Cellular Ecology: Guerrilla Organizations and Grunt Math".

    References:

    House Un-American Activities Committee records, 1945-1975

    How They Hunt

    ***

    F A Hayek The Intellectuals and Socialism

    Bryan Borrough Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

    Andy NgoUnmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

    AQ Training Manual

    The IRA Greenbook

    Hunting the Sleepers

    An Analysis of Al-Qaida Tradecraft

    Modeling Terrorist Networks - Complex Systems at the Mid-Range

    Understanding the Form, Function, and Logic of Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks: The First Step in Effective Counternetwork Operations

    Stephen Biddle Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

    My Substack

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me


    Ep 073 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Two" Oct 27, 2025
    Show notes

    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 and Grunt Math".

    References:

    House Un-American Activities Committee records, 1945-1975

    How They Hunt

    ***

    Bryan Borrough Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

    Andy NgoUnmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

    AQ Training Manual

    The IRA Greenbook

    Hunting the Sleepers

    An Analysis of Al-Qaida Tradecraft

    Modeling Terrorist Networks - Complex Systems at the Mid-Range

    Understanding the Form, Function, and Logic of Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks: The First Step in Effective Counternetwork Operations

    HR Kedward In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944

    George MillarMaquis: An Englishman in the French Resistance

    Ian Wellsted SAS with the Maquis: In Action with the French Resistance, June–September 1944

    Stephen Biddle Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

    My Substack

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me


    Ep 072 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part One" Oct 13, 2025
    Show notes

    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 Math".

    References:

    House Un-American Activities Committee records, 1945-1975

    How They Hunt

    ***

    Andy NgoUnmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

    AQ Training Manual

    The IRA Greenbook

    Hunting the Sleepers

    An Analysis of Al-Qaida Tradecraft

    Modeling Terrorist Networks - Complex Systems at the Mid-Range

    Understanding the Form, Function, and Logic of Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks: The First Step in Effective Counternetwork Operations

    HR Kedward In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944

    George MillarMaquis: An Englishman in the French Resistance

    Ian Wellsted SAS with the Maquis: In Action with the French Resistance, June–September 1944

    Stephen Biddle Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

    My Substack

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me


    Ep 071 "The Devil's Thermostat: Turning Up the Heat on American Civil War" Sep 22, 2025
    Show notes

    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 civil war in America.

    I cover it in Episodes 37, 41-43, 49-50 and 62 of my Chasing Ghosts podcast.

    References:

    Video:

    NCTC Islamist Attacks on US Forecast 2025

    Winston Marshall The UNTOLD History of The White Slave Trade & How Islam Conquered 3/4 of The Christian World

    Andrew Gold CIVIL WAR is Coming - Professor David Betz

    Books:

    Stephen Biddle Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

    Barbara Walter How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

    David Armitage Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

    William Forstchen Day of Wrath

    Kurt Schlichter The Attack

    Karl Dahl

    Faction

    Faction: With the Crusaders

    Matt Bracken:

    Enemies Foreign and Domestic

    Foreign Enemies And Traitors

    Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista

    The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun

    Castigo Cay

    Eric Frank Russell The Wasp

    Michael Z. Williamson The Weapon (and the entire Freehold series)

    Ernest R. May Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France

    Robert Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

    Robert Asprey War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla In History

    Howard Jones My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness

    My Substack

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me


    Ep 070 "Bolivar's Revenge: The Venezuelan Tar Pit and American Ambition" Sep 08, 2025
    Show notes

    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 significant foreign-born bad actors making war on American soil.

    ***

    References:

    US Treasury Sanctions Venezuelan Cartel Headed by Maduro

    Marie Arana Bolivar: American Liberator

    Carlos Lizarralde Venezuela's Collapse: The Long Story of How Things Fell Apart

    Justin Podur Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela

    Tom Wainwright Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

    Benjamin T. Smith The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

    Anabel HernandezNarcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers

    Ioan GrilloEl Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

    David F. Marley Mexican Cartels: An Encyclopedia of Mexico's Crime and Drug Wars

    Carmen Boullosa A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”

    Patrick WinnNarcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA

    Jesse FinkPure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels

    My Substack

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me


    Ep 069 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time and the Backbenchers Lament 25.1" Aug 04, 2025
    Show notes

    It's been quite some time since I have responded to "mail" so I have curated five questions to address:.

    1. What are your personal weapons of choice: rifle or pistol?
    2. How do you fix the defense acquisition system?
    3. Is the American military really in terminal collapse?
    4. Storming America; is it still coming to the US?
    5. 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 are Drones Changing Modern Warfare?

    Sun Tzu The Art of War

    Carl von Clausewitz On War

    Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

    H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare

    Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

    Qiao Liang & Wang XiangsuiUnrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America

    My Substack

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me


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