Join CJ & Bill as they discuss:

• Col. T.E. Lawrence’s operations in Arabia during the First World War
• The Anglo-Irish War and its primary mastermind, Michael Collins
• The concept of “peak guerrilla” or “peak G” in the West in the years 1916-1922
• Mao Tse Tung as theorist and practitioner of guerrilla warfare in the Chinese Civil War

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• Ep. 0077: History of Irregular Warfare with Bill Buppert (Part 1)
• Ep. 0078: History of Irregular Warfare with Bill Buppert (Part 2)
• Ep. 0068:  71: A Dangerous History Movie Review

External Links

• ZeroGov.com, Bill’s Website
• “The Other Fight: Understanding Conventional Warfare” by Bill Buppert
• “Double Blind: The Untold Story of How British Intelligence Infiltrated and Undermined the IRA,” by Matthew Teague
• Jallianwala Bagh massacre (aka, Amritsar)
• The Young Dubliners’ version of “The Foggy Dew,” clips of which were the bumper music of this episode

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Join CJ & Bill as they discuss:

• The 1807-1814 Peninsular War in Spain during the Napoleonic era (with a few remarks about the potential effectiveness of fighters with no prior military background, and some examples of this from the American Revolutionary War)
• Confederate partisans, ‘rangers’ and some of their precursors in the Kansas & Missouri violence of the 1850s
• The Anglo-Boer Wars in South Africa in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century
• The little-known but astonishing campaign of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in East Africa during World War I

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Internal Links

• Ep. 0077: History of Irregular Warfare with Bill Buppert (Part 1)

External Links

• ZeroGov, Bill’s website
• “The Other Fight: Understanding Conventional Warfare” by Bill Buppert
• “Come Out You Black & Tans” as performed by Paddy Reilly (the intro music for this episode)

(Featured image for this episode is of the guns Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck scavenged from the ship Konigsberg & then used on land in his African campaign; Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 105-DOA3100 / Walther Dobbertin / CC-BY-SA 3.0 [CC BY-SA 3.0 de (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons)

This episode is the first part of my conversation with Bill Buppert on the history of irregular warfare.

Bill Buppert is a retired Army officer. He has been a writer for a number of publications including lewrockwell.com. He is particularly interested in the issues of liberty, survival, shooting and history. He has made frequent media appearances. He wishes to continue the abolitionist project of men like William Wilberforce and Lysander Spooner.  A recognized authority on irregular and guerrilla warfare, he is the founder and publisher of zerogov.com.

Join CJ & Bill as they discuss:

• The 4 Generations of Modern War
• The meaning of terms such as irregular warfare, guerrilla warfare, terrorism, and insurgency
• The concept of counterinsurgency, or COIN
• The earliest manifestations of irregular warfare in human history (or prehistory)

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External Links

• ZeroGov, Bill Buppert’s website
• “The Other Fight: Understanding Conventional Warfare” by Bill Buppert
• “Generations of War in the New Century” by Bill Buppert
• “The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation,” by William S. Lind, et.al. (first published in the Oct. 1989 issue of the Marine Corps Gazette)
• “Understanding Fourth Generation War” by William S. Lind (antiwar.com, Jan. 2004)