October
20
Ep. 0083: History of Irregular Warfare with Bill Buppert (part 6)
Here it is — the sixth & final installment of the DHP History of Irregular Warfare series with Bill Buppert.
Join CJ & Bill as they discuss:
- Circumstances in which insurgents do or do not have the moral high ground
- The impact of technologies on insurgency & 4GW
- The importance of narrative
- Alleged “best practices” for counterinsurgency (or COIN)
- Links between the rise of the modern state and the proliferation of resistance to it
- Lessons to be learned from insurgencies, even for those who never plan on physically fighting the state
- Thoughts on methods of defense against external threats for a stateless society
- The Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka & why they failed
- Tying things back into the trifecta of narrative, legitimacy, and grievances
External Links
- ZeroGov, Bill’s website
- Part 1 of the series on Stoicism that Bill did last year with Brett Veinotte on the School Sucks Podcast
- Creamy Radio Audio (mentioned by Bill during the show, and which both of us recommend for podcasters looking to improve their audio quality)
- Rand Corporation Study on counterinsurgency
- Malcolm Gladwell, “The Strange Tale of the Norden Bombsight”
- Malcolm Gladwell, “David and Goliath”
- Leeroy Jenkins (in case you’re not familiar with that long-ago viral Youtube video that I sampled for the intro)
Internal Links
- Ep. 0055: Save Yourself (episode in which I discuss the story of Xenophon & the Ten Thousand)
- Ep. 0077: History of Irregular Warfare with Bill Buppert (part 1)
- Ep. 0078: History of Irregular Warfare with Bill Buppert (part 2)
- Ep. 0079: History of Irregular Warfare with Bill Buppert (part 3)
- Ep. 0080: History of Irregular Warfare with Bill Buppert (part 4)
- Ep. 0081: History of Irregular Warfare with Bill Buppert (part 5)
