WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Bill Buppert
Podcast Overview
<p>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".</p><p>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.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cgpodcast.substack.com/"><strong>My Substack</strong></a></p><p>You can email with comments or recommendations to <strong>cgpodcast@pm.me</strong></p>
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Recent Episodes
January 19, 2026
Ep 020 "The Jerboa That Squeaked: Broke and Woke NATO on the Warpath"
<p>The Greenland debacle is bringing the NATO relationship into better focus on just how bad the EU/SSR has become.</p><p>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.</p><p>Stop the madness.</p><p>Recent episodes on NATO.</p><p>First part here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/warnotes-a-conflict-podcast/1853769/">Ep 009 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part One"</a></p><p>Second part here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/warnotes-a-conflict-podcast/1954112/">Ep 016 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part Two"</a></p><p><strong>References:</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/den001.asp">Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, April 27, 1951</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://csbaonline.org/research/publications/winning-the-salvo-competition-rebalancing-americas-air-and-missile-defenses">Winning The Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air And Missile Defenses</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="">The Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of Age</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html">Nyet Means Nyet (William Burns 2008)</a></p><p>Pat Buchanan <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creators.com/read/pat-buchanan/01/22/where-does-nato-enlargement-end">Where Does NATO Enlargement End?</a></p><p>DoS Cable: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html">NATO ENLARGEMENT: RUSSIAN ASSERTIONS REGARDING THE TWO-PLUS-FOUR AGREEMENT ON GERMAN UNIFICATION</a></p><p><strong>Books:</strong></p><p>Edward Bernays <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4iSyL6u">Propaganda</a></p><p>Sevim Dagdelen <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4gYKboE">NATO: A Reckoning with the Atlantic Alliance</a></p><p>Matt Kennard <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/42gFuSr">The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire</a></p><p>Daniel Ellsberg <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3DiZPwc">The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner</a></p><p>Scott Horton <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3CfydI4">Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine</a></p><p>Nassim Taleb <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4jyFL9K">Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game</a></p><p>Mark Gunzinger & Bryan Clark <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://csbaonline.org/uploads/documents/CSBA6173-PGM2_Report_WEB_2.pdf">Winning the Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air and Missile Defense</a></p><p>Christian Brose <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3ClGZEz">The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx"><strong>My Substack</strong></a></p><p><strong>Email at cgpodcast@pm.me</strong></p>
August 18, 2025
Ep 019 "Power Failure: A Thought Experiment on US Expeditionary Vulnerability"
<p>Effective June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my <strong>WarNotes</strong> episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.</p><p>The banal and humble generator set is a secret to destroying US combat power.</p><p>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).</p><p>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.</p><p>The US is <strong>NOT</strong> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Once again, the US should stand down, reassess, re-calibrate and stop thinking defense is a four letter word.</p><p><strong>References:</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://warontherocks.com/2015/11/millennium-challenge-the-real-story-of-a-corrupted-military-exercise-and-its-legacy/">Millennium Challenge: The Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and its Legacy</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN13520_STP%25209-91D13-SM-TG%2520FINAL%2520WEB.pdf">STP 9-91D13-SM-TG: TACTICAL POWER GENERATION SPECIALIST MOS 91D (2018)</a></p><p>Skill Levels 1/2/3</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://csbaonline.org/research/publications/winning-the-salvo-competition-rebalancing-americas-air-and-missile-defenses">Winning The Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air And Missile Defenses</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="">The Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of Age</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2004-4140">Space Based Interceptor Sizing Methodology</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://thebulletin.org/nuclear-notebook/">Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists</a></p><p><strong>Books:</strong></p><p>Nassim Taleb <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3PVWINu">Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game</a></p><p>Mark Gunzinger & Bryan Clark <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://csbaonline.org/uploads/documents/CSBA6173-PGM2_Report_WEB_2.pdf">Winning the Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air and Missile Defense</a></p><p>Christian Brose <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4h7zFvt">The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx"><strong>My Substack</strong></a></p><p><strong>Email at cgpodcast@pm.me</strong></p>
July 21, 2025
Ep 018 "American Military Stalemate and Defeat: A Sterling Record"
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>America boasts a magnificent 20th century war machine not fit for purpose for 21st century peer warfare.</p><p>The crossroads is chock-full of landmines.</p><p><strong>References:</strong></p><p>Christian Brose <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4b4rBrO">The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare</a></p><p>Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3PVVQZe">Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America</a></p><p>Martin van Creveld</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/41fyO6T">The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4ha6sjq">Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945</a></p><p>Colin Gray</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3CONE9S">Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3Ze5b4h">Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy</a></p><p>William Lind <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3YYv5HR">Maneuver Warfare Handbook</a></p><p>John Boyd <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.projectwhitehorse.com/pdfs/boyd/patterns%2520of%2520conflict.pdf">Patterns of Conflict</a></p><p>Michael Weiner <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/40XvVaG">Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA</a></p><p>John Prado <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4fsucyl">The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness</a>Sun Tzu <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3Qg9sPX">The Art of War</a></p><p>Carl von Clausewitz <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3W7aKQZ">On War</a></p><p>Miyamoto Musashi <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4jzDg6O">A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy</a></p><p>H. John Poole <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/44bkyex">The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx"><strong>My Substack</strong></a></p><p><strong>Email at cgpodcast@pm.me</strong></p>
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- What is WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast?
<p>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".</p><p>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.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cgpodcast.substack.com/"><strong>My Substack</strong></a></p><p>You can email with comments or recommendations to <strong>cgpodcast@pm.me</strong></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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