Ep 004 "The Impossibility of Successful Western Counterinsurgency"
Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast · Bill Buppert
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Show Notes
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
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