By Hammerhead I highly suggest you guys routinely visit sites like The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery for applicable medical/trauma care articles like this one. I first found out about this site Through Greg Ellifritz’ Active Response Training Weekend Knowledge Dump, which I highly suggest you guys peruse each Friday. The acronym T.H.R.E.A.T…
Author: The Tactical Hermit
Armed Texan and Part-Time Bard.
Applied Military History: Back to the Basics of Expeditionary Warfare
After more than a decade of expansive stability operations in the Middle East, the U.S. Army is embracing a more expeditionary posture. This shift finds America’s primary land power institution returning to its origins as a more modestly sized, but tactically effective, fighting force. During the final decade of the 18th century and throughout the…
Espionage Files: Brit Spies Used URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents
A shadowy unit of the British intelligence agency GCHQ tried to influence online activists during the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests and the 2011 democratic uprisings largely known as the Arab Spring, as new evidence gathered from documents leaked by Edward Snowden shows. The GCHQ’s special unit, known as the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group…
Civilian Operator 101: How to Shoot and Fight From Your Back
Something to chew on this weekend as you set up your Shoting drills. As CO’s We always need to be cognizant of positions we may find ourselves in a street fight that are not exactly convenient, but are all the same, reality. This is also a great time to drill on firing from OTHER non-conventional…
Cartel Corner #91: Gulf Cartel Policing Texas Border for Petty Criminals?
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The failed strategy by the Mexican government has created a new issue in this border city where organized crime has tried to diminish common crime in an effort to lower public attention. Drug cartels appear to be succeeding in lowering common crime, something that the State of Tamaulipas has failed in. “They…
Military History: The Winter War Part II (This Is Not The Fabian Strategy You Are Looking For)
In a recent article (Lessons from the Winter War: Frozen Grit and Finland’s Fabian Defense) Iskander Rehman gives a stirring tale of the Winter War pitting the Soviets against the Finns, but there is one big problem with it: It isn’t, as he argues, an example of a Fabian strategy. Rehman provides a link to…
Military Weapons From the Past: Winchester M2 Rifle
In the previous video, we looked at the Winchester G30M rifle as it was submitted to Marine Corps trials in 1940. When the trial result came back with the G30M in last place, Winchester immediately assigned David Williams to work on adapting it to resolve the problems found in testing. What Williams did was to…
Military News: Five U.S. Troops Wounded in A-Stan
With the Political circus going on, it is easy to forget we still have TROOPS IN CONTACT all over the globe. Do what you can to Help, like becoming a Morale Booster or sending a nice, fat Care Package. -SF Five U.S. Special Operations troops, fighting alongside their Afghan counterparts, were wounded recently while battling Islamic State militants in Afghanistan’s…
Military News: U.S. Navy to Name Ship After Gay Rights ‘Icon!??
U.S. Navy To Name Warship after Gay Rights Icon More proof our Military is becoming nothing more than a social justice camp for coddled babies. You don’t name United States Warships after a gay rights advocate, you name them after Men who Sacrificed their lives for the SECURITY of this Country. Men who dedicated…
History of Domestic Terrorism: The Harvey Casino Bombing of 1980
One of the most intricate and complex IED’s ever built was not created in Iraq or Uzbekistan, but right here in the U.S. 36 Years ago. -SF Watch this video of an FBI special agent discussing the most complex IED ever encountered on U.S. soil. On the morning of Aug. 26, 1980, an employee…