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:Nassim Taleb: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3Ute1Zo">The Black Swan</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3WcQsFM">Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder</a>Douglas Porch: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/49NiM4I">Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War</a>Robert Asprey <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3Js48Fj">War in the Shadows</a>My Substack:<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx">https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx</a>Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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: Nassim Taleb: The Black Swan, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Douglas Porch: Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War Robert Asprey War in the Shadows My Substack: https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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:Nassim Taleb: <a href="https://amzn.to/3Ute1Zo" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Black Swan</a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/3WcQsFM" rel="noopener noreferrer">Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder</a>Douglas Porch: <a href="https://amzn.to/49NiM4I" rel="noopener noreferrer">Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War</a>Robert Asprey <a href="https://amzn.to/3Js48Fj" rel="noopener noreferrer">War in the Shadows</a>My Substack:<a href="https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx</a>Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

Ep 004 "The Impossibility of Successful Western Counterinsurgency"

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.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cgpodcast.substack.com/">Substack: Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://libertarianinstitute.org/cgpodcast/">Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@billbuppert">Chasing Ghosts Podcast on YouTube</a>I am an Amazon Affiliate.You can contact me at cgpodcast@pm.me

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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. 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 cgpodcast@pm.me

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.<a href="https://cgpodcast.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Substack: Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast</a><a href="https://libertarianinstitute.org/cgpodcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@billbuppert" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chasing Ghosts Podcast on YouTube</a>I am an Amazon Affiliate.You can contact me at cgpodcast@pm.me

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