WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast
A conflict podcast exploring war in broader contexts beyond irregular warfare, serving as a companion to the Chasing Ghosts podcast. The show launches with a series called "Fixing Fight Club" about changing the foundations and systems of near-peer and peer conflicts in the 21st century. It also discusses the ongoing Revolution in Military Affairs, including autonomous targeting, UAS, and hypersonic munitions. Hosted by Bill Buppert, with resources and contact via Substack and email.
Episodes
Episode 021 "Strategic Deficit Disorder: National Malpractice and the Perils of the Death of Statecraft"
I further examine the strategic deficit disorder that absolutely dominates the US and western military establishments.America has a singular inability to execute large and complex wars without failing in a spectacular fashion.I speak to the tools and critical thinking modalities that could spark and encourage competent martial imagination. Moral courage is necessary to tell the flag officer dullar
Ep 020 "The Jerboa That Squeaked: Broke and Woke NATO on the Warpath"
The Greenland debacle is bringing the NATO relationship into better focus on just how bad the EU/SSR has become.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.Stop the madness.Funny how the "logic" of decolonization never gets applied to Greenland by
Ep 019 "Power Failure: A Thought Experiment on US Expeditionary Vulnerability"
Effective June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.The banal and humble generator set is a secret to destroying US combat power.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 ope
Ep 018 "American Military Stalemate and Defeat: A Sterling Record"
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.This a a dangerous time for America to continue its bad habits of wars of choice and allowing its intelligence organizations and their cuto
Ep 017 "Military Science Fiction and the Profession of Arms"
"The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation."Robert Heinlein, Starship TroopersEffective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.I think the military science fiction milieu provides a great tool for forecasting and p
Ep 016 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part Two"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.A continued discussion of the NATO debacle.It is time for America to completely reassess alliances and partnership around the world starting with NATO and then working its way down the list of useless and toxic relationships and promises to c
Ep 015 "Freeboot Reboot: 21st Century PMC in War""
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.This episode examines what private military companies and campaigns look like.I discuss traditional and emerging trends in private military warfare which tends to still take place in nation-state warfare. While combat support and combat servi
Ep 014 "The Pause That Refreshes""
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.I am taking a brief pause to reassess and re-calibrate the direction of my two podcasts.Take the time to do the same.Despite what you may think, the US conventional forces are in terminal collapse and completely unprepared for 21st century pe
Ep 013 "End of an Era: The Infantry Folds Its Colors"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.The age of the infantry is over after a thousands-year long reign in human warfare and conflict.The next 75 years in the 21st century will put paid to an august and enduring institution in human conflict.The combination of salvo competition,
Ep 012 "Fixing Fight Club: Closing Thoughts on War in the 21st Century"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.After nearly twelve hours of a blistering and unapologetic critique of the American military, I wanted to post a conclusion where I can tie a bow on the jeremiad and offer some cogent and abbreviated recommendations on the road forward.In thi
Ep 011 "Fixing Fight Club: The Death of Manned Air Power"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.The US Air Force is at a turning point in 21st century warfare and in danger of whistling past the graveyard if they fail to take notice and action on the emerging Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA).The era of manned combat aircraft is com
Ep 010 "Fixing Fight Club: Naval Warfare in the 21st Century"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.In the future near-peer and peer fight, salvo competition and missiles will be the preeminent means by which one country will kinetically overwhelm the other in a fight. I discuss the way the US Navy is in an existential hazard of being woefu
Ep 009 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part One"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.It is time for America to completely reassess alliances and partnership around the world starting with NATO and then working its way down the list of useless and toxic relationships and promises to commit American blood and treasure to flashp
Ep 008 "Fixing Fight Club: Reimagining Land Warfare or Else"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.I take the time to discuss some of the conventional ramifications of modern warfare and book & article recommendations that have given me a deeper and more nuanced understanding of why wars begin and end as they do.Robotics, autonomous ta
Ep 007 "Fixing Fight Club: Kill the Corps"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.The US Marine Corps has seen its time and it is now the opportunity to sunset it and wish it well in memorium. Two historical moments have destroyed the efficacy and primacy of the USMC: missiles and the sad Commandant tenure of GEN David H.
Ep 006 "Fixing Fight Club: Escalation Dominance and Salvo Competition"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.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 way the West is in an existential hazard of being woefully under-prepar
Ep 005 "Fixing Fight Club: 21st Century Nuclear Renaissance"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.A complete reassessment of American nuclear weapons has to be done.In the future near-peer and peer fight, nuclear weapons will be an option in the 21st century and no one can predict how they will used.In concert with the emerging Revolution
Ep 004 "Fixing Fight Club: Intelligence Failure is a Feature and Not a Bug"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.In this episode, I will examine what intelligence looks like from a professional perspective and why America and the West consistently engage in existential chaos avalanches that make the world a worse place.The bureaucratic impulse in the We
Ep 003 "Fixing Fight Club: The Joint Illusion"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.The joint concept is the synchronization function for individual services and by extension, allied and coalition forces in multinational war-fighting. The US has the parts and components committed on paper but nothing works in reality.Referen
Ep 002 "Fixing Fight Club: The Hegemon Steps Back"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.It is time for the most expensive military in the world to seek a reset, this episode will continue to suggest that a strategic and grand strategic reframing has to take place to facilitate a wholesale re-imagining of the martial enterprises
Ep 001 "Fixing Fight Club: The Collapse of American Military Power"
Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.Here's the premier episode of my new podcast, WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast and I am introducing the first series of 'casts I will do on base-lining problems and offering solutions to the immense military incompetence, malfeasance and rank stu
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