Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast cover art

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast

Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast

Written by: Bill Buppert
Listen for free

About this listen

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

Bill Buppert 2022-2024
Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • Ep 077 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time and the Backbenchers Lament 26.1"
    Jan 6 2026

    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 Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America

    My Substack

    Email at cgpodcast@pm.me

    Show More Show Less
    51 mins
  • Ep 076 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Five (Conclusions)"
    Dec 8 2025

    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 Ngo Unmasked: 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

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Ep 075 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Four"
    Nov 24 2025

    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 Ngo Unmasked: 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

    Show More Show Less
    57 mins
No reviews yet