This is the same strategy that Islamic supremacists and their Leftist allies employ against counter-jihad speakers and writers: manufacture a controversy over their supposedly unacceptable opinions, such that people are afraid to have them speak or feature their work, for fear of accusations of “racism” and “bigotry.” They’re trying to rule resistance to jihad outside…
Author: The Tactical Hermit
Cartel Corner #15: Growing up in Pablo Escobar’s Columbia
I grew up in Pablo Escobar’s Colombia. Here’s what it was really like. by Bernardo Aparicio García The night of the car bomb, my dad called home from his cell phone as he finished his rounds of the family’s bakeries. It was a nightly ritual, braving rush hour in his little silver Mazda to collect…
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It is Time for the U.S. Military to Innovate like Insurgents
These three Army captains built a gun that kills drones. It took them ten hours and cost $150. What can the Army learn from them? The recently concluded meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) has become a yearly tradition for senior military leaders, congressional staff, and members of foreign armies to…
Al Shabaab pledges Loyalty to ISIS
With ISIS gaining the support of both Boko Haram and now Al Shabaab in Africa, it has solidified its position in that politically fractured country and at the same time secured its Southern Flank in its campaign to conquer Europe.-SF The Islamic State has already won the loyalty of Boko Haram in Nigeria and many…
5 Tactical Mission Techniques For Taking Your Kid Trick-Or-Treating
Although me and my family never recognized nor celebrated Halloween, I thought this a relevant article for the security minded parent if you so choose to allow your kids to go door to door to complete strangers homes asking for candy that could be poisoned or tampered with. Just sayin’..there are much safer alternatives for…
Know Your Enemy: The Believer
IBRAHIM AWWAD IBRAHIM AL-BADRI was born in 1971 in Samarra, an ancient Iraqi city on the eastern edge of the Sunni Triangle north of Baghdad. The son of a pious man who taught Quranic recitation in a local mosque, Ibrahim himself was withdrawn, taciturn, and, when he spoke, barely audible. Neighbors who knew him…
Cartel Corner #14: Texas Expressway Shootout Linked to CDG, Mexican Female Drug Lord Wanted for bribing Feds in Texas
10/26/2015 Authorities near the Texas Border continue a manhunt for several Gulf Cartel Members involved in a fierce shootout on a TEXAS highway. Beginning last week and into this weekend San Juan Police along with their federal partners have arrested multiple cartel gunmen and continue to hunt down additional gunmen, said Police Chief Juand Gonzalez…
The Ignorance of Intelligence Agencies
This is a very short article, but worthy of your time nonetheless. It points out one of the glaring inadequacies of the current state of our Foreign Intelligence apparatus in this country. All of the sentences in italics are of my doing for emphasis on these points. -SF By Williamson Murray At the start of…
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