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Ep 028 "US Military Special Operations Forces: A Primer"
Season 1 Episode 28
A brief introduction to the Department of Defense activities in special operations. I will not be discussing the dark organizations and specifically …
2 years, 10 months ago
Ep 027 "The Middle East: Shuffling to the Apocalypse (Part One)"
Season 1 Episode 27
We discuss the Israeli emergency in its latest iteration in the horrific attacks by Hamas into Israel in October 2023 and the simmering conflict band…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ep 026 "Review and Discussion: Tattoo Zoo by Paul Avallone"
Season 1 Episode 26
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'…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ep 025 "Technicals: Toyotas Go To War""
Season 1 Episode 25
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…
3 years ago
Ep 024 "The Other Fight: Understanding the Conventional Conflict""
Season 1 Episode 24
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 nua…
3 years ago
Ep 023 "Afghanistan: The Soviet Debacle 1978-1989"
Season 1 Episode 23
The defeat of the USSR in Afghanistan was part of a broad tapestry of disasters that eventually brought the Russian communist state crashing down. Th…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ep 022 "Review and Discussion: Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On""
Season 1 Episode 22
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 le…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ep 021 "Review and Discussion: Jack Hinson's One-Man War by Tom C. McKinney "
Season 1 Episode 21
We discuss the book, guerrilla and insurgency warfare during the American war in 1861-65, the atrocity cycle, guerrilla math and the hopelessness of …
3 years, 1 month ago
Ep 020 "COIN Malpractice: Lessons Never Learned (Part One)"
Season 1 Episode 20
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…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ep 019 "Murphy Rex: Complexity and War"
Season 1 Episode 19
I discuss the complex adaptive system that is war that Clausewitz categorically identified as "friction" in the nineteenth century. We'll examine wha…
3 years, 2 months ago