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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

10/31/25 Bill Buppert on the Follies of American Militarism

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Scott interviews Bill Buppert about his new course on the Scott Horton Academy. Discussed on the show: Scott Horton Academy Yes Minister (IMDb) Bill Buppert is the Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute and host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast. He served in the military for nearly a quarter century and was a combat tourist in a number of neo-imperialist shit-pits planet-wide. He can be found on Twitter at @wbuppert and reached via email at cgpodcast@pm.me. For more on Scott’s work: Check out The Libertarian Institute:  https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott’s other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott’s books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at  https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/3tgMCdw Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/3HRufs0 Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow And check out Scott’s full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated https://rrbi.co Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com You can also support Scott’s work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/ https://scotthortonshow.com or https://patreon.com/scotthortonshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest, reporting to the American people, what's going on in this country?

0:11.0

Because the babies are making it.

0:13.0

We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.

0:15.0

This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly.

0:21.7

When the president doesn't, that means that it is not only...

0:24.5

We're going to take out seven countries in five years.

0:27.0

They don't know what the fuck they're doing.

0:29.3

Negotiate now.

0:31.4

End this war.

0:33.5

And now, here's your host, Scott Horton.

0:39.3

All right, y'all.

0:41.3

Welcome to the show, the Scott Horton Show.

0:43.3

I'm him and we got a big announcement for you today.

0:46.3

It's the, what, second full day now of the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom at Scott Horton Academy.com.

0:55.2

I can go and sign up there and we've got early bird specials, which are probably

0:59.3

expired by the time anybody sees this.

1:01.8

Not sure, but probably Saturday night.

1:04.8

Anyway, head on over there and sign up for the Academy.

1:08.7

It's long form courses by myself, the great James Beauard, Ramsey Baruch, well, let me say myself on the War on Terrorism, James Bovard on 40 years of investigative journalism, Ramsey Baroud on the reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

1:24.6

And today's guest, one of today's guests, the great Bill Bupert, former

1:29.7

army officer and historian and critic of American, especially counterinsurgency policy,

1:36.7

but also essentially all American militarism and its follies.

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