About this 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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Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast
About this 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…
Recent episodes
- Ep 086 "Hybrid Warfare in the New Age: Stretching the Envelope (Part One)"24 Aug · 50 min
- Ep 085 "Home is the High Ground: Reimagining a New Hermit Kingdom"6 Jul · 52 min
- Ep 084 "Blood in the Water: The US Navy is Sinking"7 Jun · 56 min
- Ep 083 "Memorial Day Remembrance 2026: Oceans of Blood, Wars of Choice""25 May · 51 min
- Ep 082 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time"11 May · 36 min
- Ep 081 "Strategic Empathy: Grokking the Pendulum of Indecision"13 Apr · 1 h 02 min
- Ep 080 "The Cargo Cult of Martial Belief, Wishcasting and Bloodshed"30 Mar · 57 min
- Ep 079 "Iran, Salvo Competition and the Inevitable Stalemate"16 Mar · 44 min
- Ep 078 "Iran and I Lost: The American Empire Tilts Again"2 Mar · 45 min
- Ep 077 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time and the Backbenchers Lament 26.1"6 Jan · 51 min
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