Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast

It's been quite some time since I have responded to "mail" so I have curated these questions to address:.
Why the future of warfare is not clone wars?
The Fall of Europe is inevitable, here is what it will look like.
The rifle is no longer the future in any form of warfare.
How systems engineering is ultimately the way of war now and forever
Events and Ephemera:
The Arcata Summit in Bozeman 13-14 November 2026
Hearts of Space Subscription Service
References:
Why the M7 is Wrong with Ian McCollum
Unauthorized History of the Pacific War Podcast
RAND wish-casting on drones in 2015.
Slaughterbots (2017)
Slaughterbots: if human: kill() (2021)
How are Drones Changing Modern Warfare?
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 The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America
My Substack
Email at cgpodcast@pm.me

Hybrid warfare is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations.
We continue our conversation.
References:
The Arcata Summit 13-14 November 2026
War Without a Center: Iran’s Mosaic Defense
Richard J. Samuels Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
John Llewelyn The Imperial Japanese Army’s Tokumu Kikan – Special Service Organisations: Connections Between Wartime and Peacetime Intelligence Activities
Simon Hall BLINDED BY THE RISING SUN JAPANESE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FROM THE FIRST SINO-JAPANESE WAR TO THE END OF WORLD WAR I
Interrogation of IJF CDR Miyazaki
Report to Congress on Russian Hybrid Warfare in Europe 11 August 2026
The Future of Hybrid Warfare
Hybrid Warfare: How to Escape the Conceptual Gray-Zone
The Evolution of Hybrid Warfare: Implications for Strategy and the Military Profession
Richard Feynman Cargo Cult speech at CalTech 1974
RAND wish-casting on drones in 2015.
Slaughterbots (2017)
Slaughterbots: if human: kill() (2021)
How are Drones Changing Modern Warfare?
H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
Email at cgpodcast@pm.me

Hybrid warfare Is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations.
This second episode examines an historical example of what I think is the closest modern hybrid warfare modality in the Japanese Empire in the 1930s leading to WWII; the.Imperial Japanese Army’s Tokumu Kikan – Special Service Organizations that laid the groundwork for this phenomenon in the modern west.
References:
Richard J. Samuels Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
John Llewelyn The Imperial Japanese Army’s Tokumu Kikan – Special Service Organisations: Connections Between Wartime and Peacetime Intelligence Activities
Report to Congress on Russian Hybrid Warfare in Europe 11 August 2026
The Future of Hybrid Warfare
Hybrid Warfare: How to Escape the Conceptual Gray-Zone
The Evolution of Hybrid Warfare: Implications for Strategy and the Military Profession
Richard Feynman Cargo Cult speech at CalTech 1974
RAND wish-casting on drones in 2015.
Slaughterbots (2017)
Slaughterbots: if human: kill() (2021)
How are Drones Changing Modern Warfare?
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 The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America
My Substack
Email at cgpodcast@pm.me

Hybrid warfare Is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations. This first episode tries to lay the ground work of what it is and in the next two episodes we will examine an historical and a contemporary example of hybrid warfare in meat-space.
References:
Report to Congress on Russian Hybrid Warfare in Europe 11 August 2026
The Future of Hybrid Warfare
Hybrid Warfare: How to Escape the Conceptual Gray-Zone
The Evolution of Hybrid Warfare: Implications for Strategy and the Military Profession
Richard Feynman Cargo Cult speech at CalTech 1974
RAND wish-casting on drones in 2015.
Slaughterbots (2017)
Slaughterbots: if human: kill() (2021)
How are Drones Changing Modern Warfare?
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 The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America
My Substack
Email at cgpodcast@pm.me

I discuss the possibilities of America relinquishing its global ambition to reduce its footprint to a regional hegemon in the Western hemisphere. The new technologies of AI, UAVs and hypersonics rather easily challenge the spending paradigms and mission architecture of the American armed forces.
There are no near-peer competitors, every nation on Earth is now a peer to modern western war machines.
America boasts a magnificent 20th century war machine is not fit for purpose for 21st century peer warfare.
The crossroads is chock-full of landmines.
References:
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America
Martin van Creveld
The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz
Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945
Colin Gray
Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice
Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
William Lind Maneuver Warfare Handbook
John Boyd Patterns of Conflict
Michael Weiner Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA
John Prado The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA's Heart of DarknessSun 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 The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
My Substack
Email at cgpodcast@pm.me