Author: The Tactical Hermit
Armed Texan and Part-Time Bard.
Bad Ass Files: Francis Wharton
Memery Theft (Morning Edition)
Coal Burner w/Retard Spawn
Know Your Guerilla Warfare History: The Boer War
Boer War Origins The origins of the Boer War lay in Britain’s desire to unite, or confederate, the British South African territories of the Cape Colony and Natal with the Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (also known as the Transvaal). The Boers, Afrikaans-speaking farmers, wanted to maintain their…
Small-Unit Tactics: The Flying Column
Ireland’s Wars: Flying Columns The popular memory of the Irish War of Independence, at least if you happen to be Irish, often revolves around the image of the IRA “flying column”. For a large number of people, those two words indicates a very particular type of unit: A sort of mobile platoon that lived and…
Morning Laugh
Know Your Real WW2 History: The French Resistance
The Great White Army
The Lion
Government Gangsters: The DOGE Hit List, Vol. 1 – Office of Space Commerce
The DOGE Hit List, Vol. 1: Office of Space Commerce Traditionally, “waste, fraud and abuse” is where government careers go to die. It turns out that most (although of course not all) of the “waste” is either legally required or putatively oriented towards some idea of “fairness”. Outright fraud is comparatively rare, or a…