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.
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Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute
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- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 70
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Ep 070 "Bolivar's Revenge: The Venezuelan Tar Pit and American Ambition"
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…
Ep 069 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time and the Backbenchers Lament"
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 acquisitio…
Ep 068 "The Military Drone Revolution: Make All Flesh Forfeit"
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…
Ep 067 "The Mountains of Madness: Military Defeat and Terrain Part II"
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 …
Ep 066 "Civil War on the Horizon: The Empire Strikes Back"
This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth.
This…
Ep 065 "Color Revolutions: Weaponizing Subterfuge"
This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth.
We d…
Ep 064 "War and Remembrance: Drawing the Wrong Lessons"
This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth.
Memo…
Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War"
This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth.
Mili…
Ep 062 "Storming America: One Year Later"
This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth.
This…
Ep 061 "The Mountains of Madness: Military Defeat and Terrain Part I"
This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth.
With…
Ep 060 "The Military Historian's Craft: Past Tense Imperfect"
This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth.
I am…
Ep 059 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part Two"
This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth.
Here…
Ep 058 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part One"
Chasing Ghosts is back!
This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris W…
Ep 057: "CG Announcement November 2024: WarNotes Podcast Rising"
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 Con…
Ep 056 "Pearl Snap Tactical Interview with Mark Booher"
Mark Booher at Pearl Snap Tactical interviewed me discussing irregular warfare and the threat to the homeland.
We discuss irregular warfare and the impacts of an up-sized catastrophic attack on the US…
Ep 055 "The Shapiro-Ferguson Kerfuffle: History at War""
I am the Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute.
They asked me to comment on the recent podcast interview between Ben Shapiro and Niall Ferguson which of course, wa…
Ep 054 "CG Excursion: The American Military Empire is in Terminal Collapse"
The trillions dollar fragile American military complex is in big trouble in big war.
It doesn't work.
Robotics and drones are the new "low tech" answer to the First World's exquisite military platforms…
Ep 053 "CG Excursion: The Revolution Will Be Televised: Near Peer and Peer Conflict in the 21st Century"
Robotics and drones are the new "low tech" answer to the First World's exquisite military platform that are over priced and have the same provenance of battleships planet-wide in January 1942.
The ele…
Ep 052 "CG Excursion: Churchill: Imperial Bombast and the Death of the West"
This is an episode to examine what Churchill really did for the West after witnessing the emotional & ahistorical outbursts by the usual suspects after Darryl Cooper from the Martyrmade Podcast appea…
Ep 051 "Cellular Ecology: Guerrilla Organizations and Grunt Math"
This is an episode to examine what cell structures look like and the methodologies of guerrillas and insurgents use to conduct clandestine or covert action.
I further discuss traditional, subversive, …