Best Bill Buppert Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 049 "Storming America: TTP to Make you Free (Part I)" 1:07:04

2d ago1:07:04

1:07:04

This is an episode to examine what you can do about the coming civil unrest in America. I discuss some of the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) the free range human can employ to prepare and protect themselves for the coming unpleasantness. I wanted to add a great note from one of my listeners [H/T to MG] that is a great addition to the reco…

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Ep 048 "CG Excursion: Peer Strike ISR Complex: The Need for Rational Fires Coordination" 1:22:34

15d ago1:22:34

1:22:34

***Apologies; this episode appears to have some technical issues that I will address on return to my home studio; I am on the road right now.*** Fires synchronization is the effective coordination of sensors and effectors in near-real time or real time in a hostile non-permissive combat environment. The West has no working system to coordinate its …

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Ep 047 "Nagorno-Karabakh: A Dark and Robotic Future" 47:17

29d ago47:17

47:17

I discuss the Fall 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the tiny sliver of Nagorno-Karabakh and why I would suggest that it was a glimpse into the future of warfare for the remainder of this century. the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) for the following reasons: Robotics and drones are the new "low tech" answer to the First World's exqui…

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Ep 046 "Review and Discussion: My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness by Howard Jones" 53:55

1M ago53:55

53:55

I discuss the slaughter of over 500 unarmed men, women and children in My Lai in March 1968 by American soldiers. In concert with the Tet Offensive in 1968, this was the end of American arms in Vietnam. The collision of barbarism, toxic leadership and moral injury make everyone of these pages bleed. One of the most searing indictments of American a…

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Ep 045 "CG Excursion Praxis: Rational Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) (Part Two)" 56:22

2M ago56:22

56:22

I continue a rather technical treatment of developing and using Concepts of Operations (CONOPS). This episode examines the finer points of getting baselines and expectations right for small and large projects alike. If you take these simple concepts for building a CONOPS to include how to do decomposition in Product Breakdown Structures (PBS) and W…

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Ep 044 "CG Excursion Praxis: Rational Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) (Part One)" 59:43

2M ago59:43

59:43

I discuss a rather technical treatment of developing and using Concepts of Operations (CONOPS). This episode examines the timeless and tedious process of getting baselines and expectations right for small and large projects alike. References: Special Forces Detachment Mission Planning Guide GTA 31-01-003 January 2020 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STANDARD …

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Ep 043 "Storming America: The Aftermath" 57:15

3M ago57:15

57:15

I discuss the outcome of the probable jihadist invasion of America. America is in a unique position in history in which it has facilitated the unfettered invasion of its borders and a large swath of military age males have been granted asylum or gone undetected to link up with legacy underground Islamist and terrorist groups across the country. Thi…

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Ep 042 "Storming America: War Comes Home" 58:03

3M ago58:03

58:03

In this episode I discuss what the attack looks like in America. This is not if, this is when. The country is poised to experience this through a combination of neglect and the sheer hubris of meddling in the world without realize the unintended consequences. I wish I had better news but you have been warned, it's on the horizon. I talk about Willi…

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Ep 041 "Storming America: Intelligence Failure is Now and Forever" 1:24:14

4M ago1:24:14

1:24:14

This is a continuation of my "Storming America Series" where I will tease out and describe why the inevitable internal attack on America by external forces will be made real. In this episode, I will examine what intelligence looks like from a professional perspective and why America and the West consistently engage in existential chaos avalanches t…

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Ep 040 "The Middle East: Shuffling to the Apocalypse (Part Two)"" 55:22

4M ago55:22

55:22

This episode will be an addendum to my initial coverage in October 2023 of the Gaza-Israel conflict in Episode 027 and riffing off the domestic implications in Episode 037 of a similar attack on CONUS. If you wish to listen to those before you do this one, you may but I have crafted this so that isn’t necessary. The clock is closer to midnight than…

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Ep 039 "CG Excursion: Stoicism: Who Dares Leads" 31:03

5M ago31:03

31:03

I am reusing a previous episode I used in the now moribund Stoicism podcast I started, The Dash, which I ran out of steam on. Applying Stoic values and discipline to the vocation and avocations we practice in life may be the hardest part outside of making a Stoic life a lived lifestyle. I find the management industry is a giant cargo cult that publ…

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Ep 038 "Moral Injury: The Invisible Warrior Marks" 26:39

5M ago26:39

26:39

The concept of moral injuries for soldiers and non-soldiers alike, the gift of fear and being a dead man walking and how to handle regret and shame. “As beasts are beneath human restraints, gods are above them... It would be foolish and untruthful to deny the appeal of exalted, godlike intoxication....We have seen the paradox that these godlike exa…

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Ep 037 "Storming America: Another War Will Come Home" 1:13:36

6M ago1:13:36

1:13:36

The hybrid and gray zone fight will come to America in the next war. Once the declining American colossus shuffles into the next near-peer and peer conflict, the 21st century will see the continental US come under a unified attack by external forces for the first time since the War of 1812 and the Mexican border issues in 1916. How the 9/11/2001 ev…

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Ep 036 "Drunk on Direct Action: The Destruction of Army Special Forces in the GWOT" 44:51

6M ago44:51

44:51

The direct action concentration of US Army Special Forces (SF) in the conduct of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan at the expense of the specialized and storied legend of what SF could do in non-permissive environments raising partisan forces behind enemy lines. The Army SF concentrated on perfecting a craft that numerous other combat organizations l…

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Ep 035 "Review and Discussion: Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch" 46:05

7M ago46:05

46:05

Everyone and everything has an origin story, while I had a sneaking suspicion early on in my modest career in special operations and irregular warfare (IW) that something was fundamentally wrong with the western way of war in these endeavors, it was Douglas Porch who probably set my course straight. In this book, he makes a compelling historical an…

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Ep 034 "CG Excursions: Deep Six the Carrier Force: Naval Power in the 21st Century" 49:17

7M ago49:17

49:17

Excursions is a new addition to the CG universe to cover adjacent conflict issues to the irregular warfare fight. *** 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 way the West is in an existential hazard of being woefully un…

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Ep 033 "CG Excursions: Salvo Competition and the Big Fight" 1:03:24

8M ago1:03:24

1:03:24

Excursions will be a new addition to the CG universe to cover adjacent conflict issues to the irregular warfare fight. 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 way the West is in an existential hazard of being woefully u…

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Ep 032 "US Military Special Operations Forces Can't Do UW (Part Two)" 35:20

8M ago35:20

35:20

The emerging anti-fragile forces of indigenous irregular warfare forces in concert or independent of near-peer and peer competitors challenging US and western global hegemony are on the march and will in the end succeed. References: David Maxwell Counter-Unconventional Warfare (2014) Douglas Porch Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Wa…

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Ep 031 "US Military Special Operations Forces Can't Do UW (Part One)" 49:08

8M ago49:08

49:08

In this episode, I will be a heretic to the current military establishment in America and the west. They can't do unconventional warfare and I must be very specific in the conditional problem I propose: the western military has no capability to conduct long term partisan warfare in concert with indigenous forces fighting an insurgency in a non-perm…

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Ep 030 "US Military Special Operations Forces: US Army Special Forces" 58:00

9M ago58:00

58:00

Here we do a deep dive in US Army Special Forces (SF) and why a complete overhaul is needed to resurrect the original charter to save SF from itself. Over two decades of fighting neo-colonial conflicts throughout the Middle East and Africa has decimated the original construct and mission of what made SF so special. References: Douglas Porch Counter…

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Ep 029 "US Military Special Operations Forces: US Army" 47:12

9M ago47:12

47:12

Today, I'll do a deep dive into the US Army vanilla SOF organziations and get acquainted with the capabilities and opportunities for US Army special operations. My Substack: https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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Ep 028 "US Military Special Operations Forces: A Primer" 58:31

9M ago58:31

58:31

A brief introduction to the Department of Defense activities in special operations. I will not be discussing the dark organizations and specifically address the "vanilla" SOF in all the services. References: Douglas Porch Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War Ann Scott Tyson American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the …

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Ep 027 "The Middle East: Shuffling to the Apocalypse (Part One)" 45:40

10M ago45:40

45:40

We discuss the Israeli emergency in its latest iteration in the horrific attacks by Hamas into Israel in October 2023 and the simmering conflict bands that emerging globally in which this is another explosion in the global conflict rift. For those who thought the podcast died, its death has been greatly exaggerated. My move to FL from AZ is now com…

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Ep 026 "Review and Discussion: Tattoo Zoo by Paul Avallone" 32:16

11M ago32:16

32:16

Every war has a seminal novel, a book that really resonates with generation that wrote it and the following generations from the Iliad to Gore Vidal's historical fiction to The Centurions by Jean Larteguy to From Here to Eternity by James Jones to this one. References: Paul Avallone Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the Afghan War Jean Larteguy The Centurions…

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Ep 025 "Technicals: Toyotas Go To War"" 47:02

11M ago47:02

47:02

In the one year anniversary episode (!), we chat about the use of thin-skinned vehicles in the modern age and the asymmetric nature of the fight. The employment of commercially produced vehicles for conduct of raids and ambushes employing a wide array of weapons medium- to heavy-machine guns to mortars to ATGMs and everything in between. Please not…

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Ep 024 "The Other Fight: Understanding the Conventional Conflict"" 40:44

12M ago40:44

40:44

I take the time to discuss some of the conventional ramifications of modern warfare and book recommendations that have given me a deeper and more nuanced understanding of why wars begin and end as they do. References: 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…

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Ep 023 "Afghanistan: The Soviet Debacle 1978-1989" 37:07

1y ago37:07

37:07

The defeat of the USSR in Afghanistan was part of a broad tapestry of disasters that eventually brought the Russian communist state crashing down. The shattering of Soviet forces by the indigenous rebels aided by foreign fighters and sophisticated weapons technology from the West doomed the USSR to failure. The Americans would later respond with: "…

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Ep 022 "Review and Discussion: Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On"" 42:36

1y ago42:36

42:36

We examine the Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On by Leigh Neville and Matt Eversmann to discuss the book, the event and what led up to the event. References: Leigh Neville & Matt Eversmann Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On Mark Bowden Blackhawk Down My Substack: https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx Email at cgpodcast@…

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Ep 021 "Review and Discussion: Jack Hinson's One-Man War by Tom C. McKinney " 42:07

1y ago42:07

42:07

We discuss the book, guerrilla and insurgency warfare during the American war in 1861-65, the atrocity cycle, guerrilla math and the hopelessness of occupation avoiding the injury of civilians. References: Tom McKinney Jack Hinson's One-Man War, A Civil War Sniper Daniel E. Sutherland A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the Americ…

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Ep 020 "COIN Malpractice: Lessons Never Learned (Part One)" 48:00

1y ago48:00

48:00

It appears the West just can't get counterinsurgency right. I talk about some of the framework ideas that would be good lessons learned for those who I think wisely and would try to avoid COIN. The major takeaway is that insurgencies are rather antifragile and bureaucracies are the enemy of effectiveness and innovation. References: Nassim Taleb Inc…

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Ep 019 "Murphy Rex: Complexity and War" 32:34

1y ago32:34

32:34

I discuss the complex adaptive system that is war that Clausewitz categorically identified as "friction" in the nineteenth century. We'll examine what chaos and complexity has to do with conflict, why it is inevitable and why wars are won by the least incompetent armies and navies. References: Nassim Taleb Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black S…

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Ep 018 "French COIN: Paras in Paris (Part Three)" 1:03:55

1y ago1:03:55

1:03:55

The April 1961 Generals’ Putsch of Algiers (Putsch des généraux), was a failed military action to press French President Charles de Gaulle to not abandon French Algeria, along with French people and pro-French Arabs living there. The putsch in French Algeria was conducted by four retired generals, led by Maurice Challe, the commander of the French …

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Ep 017 Memorial Day Mailbag 51:05

1y ago51:05

51:05

In this episode, I go through some of the more interesting emails and comments I have gotten since the podcast began in September 2022. My Substack: https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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Ep 016 "TE Lawrence and the Guerrilla Mind (Part Three)" 33:41

1+ y ago33:41

33:41

his episodes examines the unconventional and eccentric mind sets of Lawrence and other famous and obscure military figures. We examine the way some armies embrace this while others discourage it. References: Scott Anderson Lawrence of Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East James J. Schneider Guerrilla Leader: T…

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Ep 015 "TE Lawrence and the Guerrilla Mind (Part Two)" 37:07

1+ y ago37:07

37:07

In this episode we will discuss how Lawrence's medievalism gave him a tremendous advantage serendipitously advising and leading the local Arab revolt during WWI against the Turks and more deeply, Allied efforts to map a post-war world. His predilections in study, preparation and application of his 27 points led to a success the British army and the…

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Ep 014 "TE Lawrence and the Guerrilla Mind (Part One)" 44:45

1+ y ago44:45

44:45

One of the peak guerrilla fountainheads in the early twentieth century, TE Lawrence has been in both the popular imagination and a large part of the engine in the Middle East that signed the death knell for foreign colonial powers to leave the region, Eccentric and brilliant, one of the few successful insurgency leaders during WWI. References: Scot…

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Ep 013 "CG Goes to the Movies: Red Dawn (1984)" 24:26

1+ y ago24:26

24:26

The brilliant John Milius helmed this production in the thick of the cold war waning with the USSR. This will be the first episode where we examine the collision between irregular warfare and popular culture. My Substack: https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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Ep 012 "Sisyphus is God: Government Incompetence and Martial Failure" 44:00

1+ y ago44:00

44:00

Government, for a variety of reasons, is manifestly incompetent in everything it does and this lends parts of the explanatory framework in why systemic failure is the feature not a bug in Western martial efforts. The critiques of the government supremacist mindset are legion and one can find many rational and elegant theses if you start at the Mise…

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Ep 011 "Three Strikes of the Match: American Divorce 1775" 49:44

1+ y ago49:44

49:44

As a former Appleseed instructor and Shoot Boss in AZ, I had the opportunity to teach a marksmanship/history project that had me master the origins and details of the first month of the First American Revolution. I cover the "Three Strikes of the Match" that we used as an organization to educate folks about the marriage between marksmanship and lib…

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Ep 010 "Review and Discussion: Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin" 33:11

1+ y ago33:11

33:11

I review and discuss Sean McMeekin's brilliant tome on Stalin being the ascendant and most successful antagonist in WWII. References: Sean McMeekin Stalin's War: A New History of World War II John Koster Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel The Venona Secrets, Exposing Sovie…

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Ep 009 "French COIN: Algeria: Losing Afrique (Part Two)" 43:28

1+ y ago43:28

43:28

I discuss the French experience in north Africa and the devastating consequences of the double blow of losing Indochina in the same time-frame in Algeria in north Africa. References: Martin Windrow Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935 Douglas Porch The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History o…

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Ep 008 "French COIN: Introduction and the Indochina Dénouement (Part One)" 40:55

1+ y ago40:55

40:55

In this first episode, I discuss the fundamentals of French irregular warfare doctrine with a concentration on COIN, French martial history in a thumbnail and the tragedy of French arms in post-WWII Indochina. References: Martin Windrow The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam Bernard Fall Hell in a Very Small Place Bernard F…

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Ep 007 "Review and Discussion: Wrong Turn by Gian Gentile" 46:35

1+ y ago46:35

46:35

A short but effective tome that is a sound introduction to why the western COIN complex is so wrong-headed and intellectually bankrupt. References: Colonel Gian Gentile Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency My Substack: https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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Ep 006 "Frameworks and Strategic Deficit Disorder" 37:37

1+ y ago37:37

37:37

I discuss the combat framework from the tactical to the operational to the strategic level and mission command for both regular and irregular warfare (IW). A deep knowledge of conventional warfare is very useful to fully grokking how IW works hence the inclusion of that perspective. References: ADP 6-0 Mission Command Grant Tedrick Hammond The Mind…

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Ep 005 "Peak Guerrilla: The Origins of Modern Irregular Warfare" 49:41

1+ y ago49:41

49:41

In this episode, I sketch the lives and exploits of three guerrilla luminaries: TE Lawrence, GEN Paul Emil von Letter-Vorbeck and Michael Collins. I want to use them to illustrate what I consider the next step in guerrilla evolution employing age-old techniques and strategies harnessed to modern technology and employment within the new age of mecha…

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Ep 004 "The Impossibility of Successful Western Counterinsurgency" 44:51

2y ago44:51

44:51

Despite trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of deaths, the West has nothing to show for the counterinsurgency campaigns it has waged. Despite the enormous industry and vast intellectual and historical apologetics combine, the wasteland is evident to all who take the time to examine the details. The emperor of COIN is naked. References: N…

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Ep 003 "Michael Collins: The Empire Blinks" 36:36

2y ago36:36

36:36

The Irish Rebellion in 1916-1922 is what I characterize as in the era of "Peak Guerrilla" in concert with the exploits of TE Lawrence and GEN Paul Emil von Letter-Vorbeck that set the stage for the modern irregular warfare era in the twentieth century. I will examine the exploits of Collins and the curious currents of history on a global basis that…

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Ep 002 "Antifragility and Irregular Warfare" 56:42

2y ago56:42

56:42

In this episode, I make the case that insurgencies are antifragile and that counterinsurgencies are fragile for the most part; we discuss the concepts, examine historical and contemporary examples and set the stage for practitioners and scholars to leverage this model to gain a more true understanding of how IW works. References: Nassim Taleb: The …

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Ep 001 "Terms of Endearment" 37:47

2y ago37:47

37:47

This charter episode will discuss the intent of the podcast and get started with the basics to create a framework of common understanding. This episode will discuss the National Defense Strategy, generations of warfare, civil war and the regional conflict complexes that emerge from larger wars and conflicts. Irregular warfare (IW) is rather complex…

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Traditionalism & Agrarianism 13:54

12+ y ago13:54

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Dr Tomislav Sunic is a translator and author of "Against Democracy & Equality: The European New Right" and "Postmortem Report: Cultural Examinations from Postmodernity" as well as a former Croat diplomat and US professor. He also has a radio show at The Sunic Journal on Reason Radio Network.

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