Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of attending the Tactical Carbine course led by Man Alone Tactical. At the last minute I had emailed them to see if there was room available, and there was, so I fired up the truck the next morning for the eight hour drive. [...]
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MOGW: Chapter Two
I went through an old copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s On Guerrilla Warfare (MOGW) and re-read all the highlighted portions. Written in 1937 under the context of the Japanese Imperialist invasion, it’s a great introduction to guerrilla strategy though it can be a bit dry. I’ll list Chapter Two with my [...]
The Formation and Organization of Resistance Movements, Part One
This is Part One of a two-part series. Part Two will be published next week. Resistance movements generally begin with the desire of individuals or small groups of individuals to remove intolerable conditions imposed by an unpopular regime. Opposition towards the regime and hatred of existing conditions that conflict with [...]
The Four Pillars of Individual and Small-Unit Combat Effectiveness, Part Two
This is Part Two of a two-part series. Part One can be found here. Battle Drills/Skills. The ultimate goal of combat training is to produce a combat-ready unit that responds instantly to known or suspected enemy activity and defeats the enemy. A battle drill is a collective team action that [...]
MOGW: Chapter One
I went through an old copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s On Guerrilla Warfare (MOGW) and re-read all the highlighted portions. Written in 1937 under the context of the Japanese Imperialist invasion, it’s a great introduction to guerrilla strategy though it can be a bit dry. I’ll list Chapter One with my [...]
Qualitative Measurement of Resistance and Revolution Models
Brigadier General Samuel Griffith, USMC (Ret.) wrote in-depth about his study of partisan resistance and guerrilla movements. One of the things that I find particularly interesting is how he qualified the execution of guerrilla movements, which I think can also be applied to the modern American revolution. He describes ten [...]
The Four Pillars of Individual and Small-Unit Combat Effectiveness, Part One
Guerrilla combat operations are ideally nothing more than conventional small-unit operations conducted by irregular forces in an unconventional environment. To that end, there is a lot that can be learned as far as training the individual guerrilla fighter by looking at advancements made in training the conventional force soldier over [...]
On Persistent Surveillance
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society… Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.” – [...]
The Skinny on SkyGrabber
Last week, news outlets published a document recovered in Mali describing how AQ affiliates ‘dodge’ UAVs. This list of actions included scant information about a Russian-made device called SkyGrabber. This guest article was written to shed more light on the topic. To understand the SkyGrabber software, one has to understand [...]
Camouflage Your AR-15
Let’s face it: your AR-15 (or other black rifle) has a very pronounced silhouette. You may have noticed that a big, black rifle sticks out like a pair of dog balls, especially when its owner is decked out in ACUs. Silhouette, as a military concept, is any shape that’s discernible [...]
