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- Jan 19, 202656 min
Ep 020 "The Jerboa That Squeaked: Broke and Woke NATO on the Warpath"
The Greenland debacle is bringing the NATO relationship into better focus on just how bad the EU/SSR has become.America should take a non-interventionist pause and get its internal house in order before standing astride the world again and lighting fires that never go away and continuously make things worse.Stop the madness.Funny how the "logic" of decolonization never gets applied to Greenland by the Europeans.Recent episodes on NATO.First part here: Ep 009 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part One"Second part here: Ep 016 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part Two"I now have a Signal Group Chat for my CG Paid Subscribers.I sent out a post to all of you.References:Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, April 27, 1951Winning The Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air And Missile DefensesThe Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of AgeNyet Means Nyet (William Burns 2008)Pat Buchanan Where Does NATO Enlargement End?DoS Cable: NATO ENLARGEMENT: RUSSIAN ASSERTIONS REGARDING THE TWO-PLUS-FOUR AGREEMENT ON GERMAN UNIFICATIONBooks:Edward Bernays PropagandaSevim Dagdelen NATO: A Reckoning with the Atlantic AllianceMatt Kennard The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American EmpireDaniel Ellsberg The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War PlannerScott Horton Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in UkraineNassim Taleb Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the GameMark Gunzinger & Bryan Clark Winning the Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air and Missile DefenseMy SubstackEmail at cgpodcast@pm.me
- Aug 18, 202557 min
Ep 019 "Power Failure: A Thought Experiment on US Expeditionary Vulnerability"
Effective June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.The banal and humble generator set is a secret to destroying US combat power.I wanted to flesh out a thought experiment on the vulnerabilities of the US war machine in its expeditionary mode in future wars of choice if a critical node of its operations for US efficacy were specifically targeted, in this case, generator sets;. these range from small portable units to large, trailer-mounted systems, including the Tactical Quiet Generator (TQG) and the Advanced Medium Mobile Power Source (AMMPS).In the future near-peer and peer fight, salvo competition will be the preeminent means by which one country will kinetically overwhelm the other in a fight. I discuss the ways in which the West is in an existential hazard of being woefully under-prepared to meet the threat if Western forces go toe to toe with regional hegemons in the East or West.The US is NOT prepared for the war of leakers in which the inadequate missile defense systems and strategy now deployed will be overwhelmed if it enters a war of choice with China or Russia.It isn't simply the peer competitors but the smaller players like North Korea and Yemen are demonstrating that the US and its allies can't cash the checks they boast about.Once again, the US should stand down, reassess, re-calibrate and stop thinking defense is a four letter word.References:Millennium Challenge: The Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and its LegacySTP 9-91D13-SM-TG: TACTICAL POWER GENERATION SPECIALIST MOS 91D (2018)Skill Levels 1/2/3Winning The Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air And Missile DefensesThe Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of AgeSpace Based Interceptor Sizing MethodologyBulletin of the Atomic ScientistsBooks:Nassim Taleb Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the GameMark Gunzinger & Bryan Clark Winning the Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air and Missile DefenseChristian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech WarfareMy SubstackEmail at cgpodcast@pm.me
- Jul 21, 20251h 1m
Ep 018 "American Military Stalemate and Defeat: A Sterling Record"
I discuss the thumbnail sketches of US military failure since the end of WWI and try to elucidate some of the reasons for the failure and the existential threat this cavalcade of calamities is to 21st century America if the ship of state doesn't reverse course.This a a dangerous time for America to continue its bad habits of wars of choice and allowing its intelligence organizations and their cutout mischief-makers to poke the bear and create black swan events out of whole cloth.America boasts a magnificent 20th century war machine not fit for purpose for 21st century peer warfare.The crossroads is chock-full of landmines.References:Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech WarfareQiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy AmericaMartin van CreveldThe Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since ClausewitzFighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945Colin GrayStrategy and History: Essays on Theory and PracticeFighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and StrategyWilliam Lind Maneuver Warfare HandbookJohn Boyd Patterns of ConflictMichael Weiner Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIAJohn Prado The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA's Heart of DarknessSun Tzu The Art of WarCarl von Clausewitz On WarMiyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to StrategyH. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to WarfareMy SubstackEmail at cgpodcast@pm.me
- Apr 28, 202558 min
Ep 017 "Military Science Fiction and the Profession of Arms"
"The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation."Robert Heinlein, Starship TroopersEffective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.I think the military science fiction milieu provides a great tool for forecasting and predicting possible conflict futures.It may be yet another tool to take this magnificent US 20th century fighting machine and make it a peer combat competitor in the 21st century.Speculative fiction provides a means to extrapolate what possible war futures are peering over the horizon.Books:Military FictionEric Frank Russell The WaspKarl Marlantes Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam WarJames Jones From Here to EternityJames Gould Cozzens Guard of HonorAnton Myrer Once an EaglePaul Avallone Tattoo ZooMilitary Science FictionMichael Z. Williamson The Weapon (Freehold Series)Joe Haldeman The Forever War (The Forever War Series)Robert A. Heinlein Starship TroopersKali Altsoba Invasion!: The Orion WarJerry Pournelle and Larry Niven Legacy of BeowulfJerry Pournelle and Larry Niven FootfallJerry Pournelle and SM Stirling West of Honor (CoDominium Future History Book 1)Craig Dilouie Tooth and NailMy SubstackEmail at cgpodcast@pm.me
- Mar 24, 202554 min
Ep 016 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part Two"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.A continued discussion of the NATO debacle.It is time for America to completely reassess alliances and partnership around the world starting with NATO and then working its way down the list of useless and toxic relationships and promises to commit American blood and treasure to flashpoints planet-wide. The sheer insanity of EU/SSR behavior and the total inadequacy of NATO as a military organization across the entire martial spectrum.NATO insisted after the wall 1989-91 fell that the NATO blob would NOT expand eastward.It did.America should take a non-interventionist pause and get its internal house in order before standing astride the world again and lighting fires that never go away and continuously make things worse.Stop the madness.First part here: Ep 009 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part One"References:Winning The Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air And Missile DefensesThe Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of AgeNyet Means Nyet (William Burns 2008)Pat Buchanan Where Does NATO Enlargement End?DoS Cable: NATO ENLARGEMENT: RUSSIAN ASSERTIONS REGARDING THE TWO-PLUS-FOUR AGREEMENT ON GERMAN UNIFICATIONBooks:Edward Bernays PropagandaSevim Dagdelen NATO: A Reckoning with the Atlantic AllianceMatt Kennard The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American EmpireDaniel Ellsberg The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War PlannerScott Horton Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in UkraineNassim Taleb Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the GameMark Gunzinger & Bryan Clark Winning the Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air and Missile DefenseChristian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech WarfareMy SubstackEmail at cgpodcast@pm.me
- Mar 10, 202559 min
Ep 015 "Freeboot Reboot: 21st Century PMC in War""
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.This episode examines what private military companies and campaigns look like.I discuss traditional and emerging trends in private military warfare which tends to still take place in nation-state warfare. While combat support and combat service support billets have been filled with private military entities for all know history, the emergence of larger and larger forces of private kinetic and trigger puller entities has gotten larger over time.References:'The last supper': How a 1993 Pentagon dinner reshaped the defense industry...Erik Prince at Hillsdale: "The Future of Dynamic Warfare"Sean McFate Mercenaries and War: Understanding Private Armies TodayThe mercenary boom: How private military contractors are redefining modern warfareInternational Stability Operations AssociationEeben Barlow Executive Outcomes: Against all OddsAl J. Venter War Dog: Fighting Other People's Wars***HR Kedward In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944George Millar Maquis: An Englishman in the French ResistanceIan Wellsted SAS with the Maquis: In Action with the French Resistance, June–September 1944Stephen Biddle Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and MilitiasAnyone attending the Special Operations Forces Week festivities in Tampa on 5-8 May 2025?If so, we should arrange a rendezvous.My SubstackEmail at cgpodcast@pm.me
- Feb 24, 202516 min
Ep 014 "The Pause That Refreshes""
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.I am taking a brief pause to reassess and re-calibrate the direction of my two podcasts.Take the time to do the same.Despite what you may think, the US conventional forces are in terminal collapse and completely unprepared for 21st century peer conflict.Keep reading, taking care of your family and friends and always question both authority and obedience.References:Sun Tzu The Art of WarCarl von Clausewitz On WarMiyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to StrategyH. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to WarfareChristian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech WarfareQiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy AmericaMy SubstackEmail at cgpodcast@pm.me
- Feb 17, 202559 min
Ep 013 "End of an Era: The Infantry Folds Its Colors"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.The age of the infantry is over after a thousands-year long reign in human warfare and conflict.The next 75 years in the 21st century will put paid to an august and enduring institution in human conflict.The combination of salvo competition, reduced costs of combat UAS munitions, targeting of exquisite platforms, intelligence/reconnaissance/surveillance (ISR) ubiquity, and anti-fragility/fragility are some of the factors informing this demise.There is no longer near peer competition and there is only peer competition, you will never hear me utter the former phase again. A hybrid of technology and the nature of sensor & effector synchronization has driven cost and opportunity so far down, it is now a rational calculation to destroy individual infantrymen and small units in detail.For the first time in conflict history, the infantry on the battlefield will be targeted in a cost-effective fashion that will annihilate them on any field they step on in any climate at any time on the planet. The difference now is that wholesale elimination of infantry forces is nearly available to every combatant force on Earth.And it will simply become more refined and deadly with time.It's time for some severe self-reflection and reassessment to question the efficacy and utility of the infantry mode of combat. This Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) needs to be faced immediately.This is an existential crisis for combat arms in the West.Tick tock.***Please take the time to listen to my twelve-part series, Fixing Fight Club, here at WarNotes.Despite what you may think, the US conventional forces are in terminal collapse and completely unprepared for 21st century peer conflict.References:The Infantry Rifle and Platoon Squad: The Official U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-21.8 (FM 7-8), 28 March 2007Ranger Handbook: TC 3-21.76, April 2017 EditionErwin Rommel Infantry AttackSiegfried Sassoon Memoirs of an Infantry OfficerPaul Avallone Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the Afghan WarKarl Marlantes Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam WarCarl von Clausewitz On WarMiyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to StrategyH. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to WarfareChristian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech WarfareMy SubstackEmail at cgpodcast@pm.me
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About WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast
WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast is an auxiliary effort to the Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast to expand the portfolio of the CG agenda. This podcast will address war in the larger contexts adjacent to the rubric of irregular warfare. I'll be inaugurating the new podcast with a series on how to actually change the foundations, context, systems and greater emergence of near-peer/peer conflicts in the 21st century called "Fixing Fight Club".You are witnessing a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) across many fronts to include autonomous targeting, UAS and hyper-sonic munitions among other emerging technology and military employment techniques.My SubstackYou can email with comments or recommendations to cgpodcast@pm.me
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