Chasing Ghosts | Ep77: The CG Mailbag: Question Time and the Backbenchers Lament 26.1

It’s been quite some time since I have responded to “mail” so I have curated five questions to address:.

What are your thoughts on the Maduro and VZ kerfuffle?

How do you fix the defense acquisition system and fraud?

What should the US Navy do in the 21st century?

How did GEN Paul Emil Lettow-Vorbeck do it (preview)?

Are American SOF capable of 21st century mission success?

References:

Soryu (16SS) class Attack Submarine - SSK

Robert Gaudi African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918

David Smith The East Africa Campaign 1914–18: Von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Masterpiece (Campaign, 379)

RAND wish-casting on drones in 2015.

Slaughterbots (2017)

Slaughterbots: if human: kill() (2021)

How are Drones Changing Modern Warfare?

Sun Tzu The Art of War

Carl von Clausewitz On War

Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare

Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America

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