In California, Diddy Is an Alleged Terrorist. Under U.S. Law, Charleston Shooter Dylann Roof Is Not. BY DAVID FRANCIS JUNE 23, 2015 – 5:38 PM DAVID.FRANCIS @DAVIDCFRANCIS In the wake of the Charleston, S.C., shooting, there’s been a lot of debate about who is and isn’t a terrorist. An unlikely person allegedly falls into the…
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Every Mass Shooting Shares One Thing in Common & it’s NOT Weapons
By Dan Roberts Nearly Every Mass Shooting In The Last 20 Years Shares One Thing In Common, & It’s NOT Weapons AmmoLand Gun News Manasquan, NJ –-(Ammoland.com)- Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and its not…
Why the Average Civilian should study Asymmetrical Warfare
From the Archives, 2015. I got asked this question the other day by a close friend and it occurred to me that I had never really plainly answered that question on this blog, even though I talk about the subject frequently. I think the best way to approach this subject is through historical precedent. It…
Happy Fathers Day!!
A Small collection of Fathers Day Cards sure to bring a smile……… No, but seriously, to all the Dad’s out there, have a great one! And Stay Dangerous!
The Missed Counter-Insurgency Lessons in Lone Survivor (Film)
(Normally, we start the year with our “Most Intriguing Event of the Year”. But since Lone Survivor hit theaters across the country on January 10th, we’re devoting this week to that topic. To read all of our Lone Survivor posts, please click here. The most important post is “A List of the Mistakes and Differences…
Unsung Heroes: The Soldier Who Destroyed An Enemy Mortar Position With A Jammed M-16
By Corey Adwar on June 18, 2015 Although he singlehandedly charged the enemy and protected sensitive U.S. military information, Pfc. Patrick Miller’s heroics were overshadowed and forgotten by a more sensational story. The March 23, 2003, ambush of 507th Maintenance Company in Nasiriyah, Iraq, was both a military and public relations disaster. Of 31 soldiers…
Netflix Pix: The Invisible Front
The story of Freedom Fighter Juozas Luska and his band of partisans fighting the soviets in post-World War II Lithuania is one of the most inspiring and tragic tales of the fight against oppression and communism in the 20th century I have ever read about. You can read about it In his book, Forest Brothers, or…
Fiji Guerrillas
Awesome piece of history…
Taking a Spoon to a Gunfight
David Maxwell April 2, 2014 · in Commentary Taking a Spoon to a Gunfight: The West Dealing with Russian Unconventional and Political Warfare in Former Soviet States As the Russians now try to reach a diplomatic solution in order to consolidate their gains in Crimea – as evidenced by Putin’s call to Obama and SECSTATE’s…
Learning from Insurgent Tactics: Going to Ground
PREPARING FOR WARFARE’S SUBTERRANEAN FUTURE by Benjamin Runkle Amidst the myriad mistakes associated with the Iraq War, perhaps none were as costly in terms of lives of U.S. personnel as the failure to anticipate the threat posed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and, subsequently, to rapidly develop technologies capable of detecting and defeating the insurgents’…