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Bill Buppert · 87 episodes with transcripts

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.

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Ep 089 "The CG Mailbag: Question Time [Fall 2026]""

October 19, 2026

Bill Buppert (0:08)

The Army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day. It looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast.

I'm Bill Buebert, retired Army officer and irregular warfare practitioner and scholar. Welcome to Chasing Ghosts, an Irregular Warfare Podcast, the show that examines the mythos, loss history, bad thinking, martial malpractice and government incompetence that informs so much of irregular warfare. Today I want to…

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