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 di...
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Episodes (183)
Ep 036 "Drunk on Direct Action: The Destruction of Army Special Forces in the GW...
Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast
Ep 035 "Review and Discussion: Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New...
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Ep 034 "CG Excursions: Deep Six the Carrier Force: Naval Power in the 21st Centu...
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Ep 033 "CG Excursions: Salvo Competition and the Big Fight"
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Ep 032 "US Military Special Operations Forces Can't Do UW (Part Two)"
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Ep 031 "US Military Special Operations Forces Can't Do UW (Part One)"
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Ep 030 "US Military Special Operations Forces: US Army Special Forces"
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Ep 029 "US Military Special Operations Forces: US Army"
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Ep 028 "US Military Special Operations Forces: A Primer"
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Ep 027 "The Middle East: Shuffling to the Apocalypse (Part One)"
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Ep 026 "Review and Discussion: Tattoo Zoo by Paul Avallone"
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Ep 025 "Technicals: Toyotas Go To War""
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Ep 024 "The Other Fight: Understanding the Conventional Conflict""
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Ep 023 "Afghanistan: The Soviet Debacle 1978-1989"
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Ep 022 "Review and Discussion: Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Ye...
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Ep 021 "Review and Discussion: Jack Hinson's One-Man War by Tom C. McKinney "
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Ep 020 "COIN Malpractice: Lessons Never Learned (Part One)"
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Ep 019 "Murphy Rex: Complexity and War"
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Ep 018 "French COIN: Paras in Paris (Part Three)"
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Ep 017 Memorial Day Mailbag
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Ep 016 "TE Lawrence and the Guerrilla Mind (Part Three)"
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Ep 015 "TE Lawrence and the Guerrilla Mind (Part Two)"
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Ep 014 "TE Lawrence and the Guerrilla Mind (Part One)"
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Ep 013 "CG Goes to the Movies: Red Dawn (1984)"
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Ep 012 "Sisyphus is God: Government Incompetence and Martial Failure"
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Ep 011 "Three Strikes of the Match: American Divorce 1775"
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Ep 010 "Review and Discussion: Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin"
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Ep 009 "French COIN: Algeria: Losing Afrique (Part Two)"
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Ep 008 "French COIN: Introduction and the Indochina Dénouement (Part One)"
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Ep 007 "Review and Discussion: Wrong Turn by Gian Gentile"
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Ep 006 "Frameworks and Strategic Deficit Disorder"
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Ep 005 "Peak Guerrilla: The Origins of Modern Irregular Warfare"
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Ep 004 "The Impossibility of Successful Western Counterinsurgency"
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Ep 003 "Michael Collins: The Empire Blinks"
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Ep 002 "Antifragility and Irregular Warfare"
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Ep 001 "Terms of Endearment"
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