Ep 004 "The Impossibility of Successful Western Counterinsurgency"
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 DisorderDouglas Porch: Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of WarRobert Asprey War in the ShadowsMy Substack:https://t.co/7a8jn2MmnxEmail at cgpodcast@pm.me.