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Ep 089 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time [Fall 2026]""
October 19, 2026 · 57 minIt's been quite some time since I have responded to "mail" so I have curated these questions to address:. Why the future of warfare is not clone wars?The Fall of Europe is inevitable, here is what it will look like.The rifle is no longer…
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Ep 088 "Hybrid Warfare in the New Age: The Future Forward (Part Three)"
September 21, 2026 · 44 minHybrid warfare is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations. We continue our conversation. References: The Arcata Summit 13-14 November 2026 War Without…
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Ep 087 "Hybrid Warfare in the New Age: Japan Expands the Conflict Aperture (Part Two)"
September 8, 2026 · 54 minHybrid warfare Is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations. This second episode examines an historical example of what I think is the closest modern…
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Ep 086 "Hybrid Warfare in the New Age: Stretching the Envelope (Part One)"
August 24, 2026 · 50 minHybrid warfare Is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations. This first episode tries to lay the ground work of what it is and in the next two episodes…
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Ep 085 "Home is the High Ground: Reimagining a New Hermit Kingdom"
July 6, 2026 · 52 minI discuss the possibilities of America relinquishing its global ambition to reduce its footprint to a regional hegemon in the Western hemisphere. The new technologies of AI, UAVs and hypersonics rather easily challenge the spending…
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Ep 084 "Blood in the Water: The US Navy is Sinking"
June 7, 2026 · 56 minThe US Navy is lost at sea and in the thrall of exquisite platform that be the maritime tombs of tens of thousands of sailors in the coming wars of the 21st century. The acquisition system is broken beyond repair, burn it down. The…
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Ep 083 "Memorial Day Remembrance 2026: Oceans of Blood, Wars of Choice""
May 25, 2026 · 51 minI discuss the darker side of celebrating war and the moral injury of wars of choice. Memorial Day is a day of remembrance and an existential wake. This day is about the ashes of victory and blood lakes of defeat. I show how the American…
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Ep 082 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time [Spring 2026]"
May 11, 2026 · 36 minIt's been quite some time since I have responded to "mail" so I have curated these questions to address:. What should the USAF do now?Is fraud a form of irregular warfare?What should the DoW do with 1.5 trillion dollars?…
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Ep 081 "Strategic Empathy: Grokking the Pendulum of Indecision"
April 13, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minI examine the strategic deficit disorder that absolutely dominates the US and western military establishments I speak to the tools and critical thinking modalities that could spark and encourage competent martial imagination. Moral courage…
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Ep 080 "The Cargo Cult of Martial Belief, Wishcasting and Bloodshed"
March 30, 2026 · 57 minEpisode 100! Well, when I combine the 20 episodes of WarNotes with the CG podcasts but a chance to pop the bubbly anyway. Today we discuss the critical lack of critical thinking that has led the US into the unenviable position of being an…
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Ep 079 "Iran, Salvo Competition and the Inevitable Stalemate"
March 16, 2026 · 44 minI'll discuss Iran and the grunt math of salvo competition. 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…
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Ep 078 "Iran and I Lost: The American Empire Tilts Again"
March 2, 2026 · 45 minWith 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…
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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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