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Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast

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 [email protected]

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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 [email protected]

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Ep 076 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Five (Conclusions)"

Dec 8, 2025·—

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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...

Ep 075 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Four"

Nov 24, 2025·—

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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...

Ep 074 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Three"

Nov 10, 2025·—

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I examine the feeder mechanism for communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-government. In this third episode, we examine the epistemology that created...

Ep 073 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part Two"

Oct 27, 2025·—

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I examine the domestic communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-government. In this second episode, we examine the history that brought the US to the...

Ep 072 "Modern Antifa: Communist Insurgency in the US Part One"

Oct 13, 2025·—

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I examine the domestic communist and terrorist insurgency that is Antifa and its affiliated organizations both governmental and non-governments;. In this first episode, we shall examine origins, terminology and some...

Ep 071 "The Devil's Thermostat: Turning Up the Heat on American Civil War"

Sep 22, 2025·—

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This episode examines civil war manifesting itself in the US and the world over the next few years and makes a forecast on how close we are on the doomsday clock of civil war on American soil. The probability and...

Ep 070 "Bolivar's Revenge: The Venezuelan Tar Pit and American Ambition"

Sep 8, 2025·—

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We examine the emerging Venezuelan kerfuffle. There are many currents and undercurrents in the latest incipient war debacle in America history. This will be a disaster for America if it clacks off and; expect the...

Ep 069 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time and the Backbenchers Lament"

Aug 4, 2025·—

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It's been quite some time since I have responded to "mail" so I have curated five questions to address:. What are your personal weapons of choice: rifle or pistol? How do you fix the defense acquisition system? Is the...

Ep 068 "The Military Drone Revolution: Make All Flesh Forfeit"

Jul 7, 2025·—

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Despite what you are told by the mainstream news sources in the media, the drone war is here to stay and it will be the most significant war modality for the next generation. It has literally exposed all ground troops...

Ep 067 "The Mountains of Madness: Military Defeat and Terrain Part II"

Jun 23, 2025·—

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This will be the first CG episode to get the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series. The WarNotes episode catalog has been completely re-fabbed using the new...

Ep 066 "Civil War on the Horizon: The Empire Strikes Back"

Jun 16, 2025·—

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This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth. This episode examines...

Ep 065 "Color Revolutions: Weaponizing Subterfuge"

Jun 2, 2025·—

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Ep 064 "War and Remembrance: Drawing the Wrong Lessons"

May 26, 2025·—

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Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War"

May 5, 2025·—

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Ep 062 "Storming America: One Year Later"

Apr 14, 2025·—

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Ep 061 "The Mountains of Madness: Military Defeat and Terrain Part I"

Mar 31, 2025·—

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Ep 060 "The Military Historian's Craft: Past Tense Imperfect"

Mar 17, 2025·—

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Ep 059 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part Two"

Mar 3, 2025·—

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Ep 058 "The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part One"

Feb 10, 2025·—

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Chasing Ghosts is back! This CG episode got the complete audio upgrade and revision to achieve the cleanest sound ever for the podcast series effective 22 June 2025 using the new technology at Chris Williams' Podsworth...

Ep 057: "CG Announcement November 2024: WarNotes Podcast Rising"

Nov 25, 2024·—

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I will be pausing Chasing Ghosts from its fortnightly cadence of issuance for the remainder of the year. I am taking the time to regroup and focus on the new occasional podcast series, WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast as a...

Ep 056 "Pearl Snap Tactical Interview with Mark Booher"

Nov 11, 2024·—

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Mark Booher at Pearl Snap Tactical interviewed me discussing irregular warfare and the threat to the homeland. We discuss irregular warfare and the impacts of an up-sized catastrophic attack on the US homeland. We riff...

Ep 055 "The Shapiro-Ferguson Kerfuffle: History at War""

Oct 28, 2024·—

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I am the Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute. They asked me to comment on the recent podcast interview between Ben Shapiro and Niall Ferguson which of course, was a reaction to...

Ep 054 "CG Excursion: The American Military Empire is in Terminal Collapse"

Oct 14, 2024·—

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The trillions dollar fragile American military complex is in big trouble in big war. It doesn't work. Robotics and drones are the new "low tech" answer to the First World's exquisite military platforms that are over...

Ep 053 "CG Excursion: The Revolution Will Be Televised: Near Peer and Peer Conflict in the 21st Century"

Sep 30, 2024·—

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Robotics and drones are the new "low tech" answer to the First World's exquisite military platform that are over priced and have the same provenance of battleships planet-wide in January 1942. The electronic emissions...

Ep 052 "CG Excursion: Churchill: Imperial Bombast and the Death of the West"

Sep 16, 2024·—

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This is an episode to examine what Churchill really did for the West after witnessing the emotional & ahistorical outbursts by the usual suspects after Darryl Cooper from the Martyrmade Podcast appeared on Tucker...