Your Watch is Watching you. Who is Watching Your Watch? Not Worried About the Internet of Things? Well You Just Became a Part of It. As more and more “things” that you interact with every day become hooked into the internet, you leave a permanent trail of digital exhaust that enables hackers and government agencies…
Author: The Tactical Hermit
Armed Texan and Part-Time Bard.
5 Reasons Legal Gun Owners Go To Jail
There is not much you can do about most of these issues, except #2, which is why I always tell new Concealed Carry Licensees and Firearm Owners to get EDUCATED on Firearm and Use of Force/Self-Defense Laws in their State. As you can see, NEVER depend on Law Enforcement or even the DA to know…
Obama and Kerry: Leading Subsidizers of International Terrorism
A Couple of articles all lovers of America and Freedom should read…I think it will give you an entirely new outlook on this supposed “Great Nuclear Deal” that was made with Iran….don’t be surprised if you get this overwhelming urge to vomit afterwards. As my good friend Bill Powell of Intel-Overwatch said, “The Barbarians are…
Urban Warfare, Back in the Day
URBAN WARFARE, BACK IN THE DAY Current headlines are replete with stories of urban warfare. Be it Aleppo, Ramadi, Tripoli or some Ukrainian city you only learned of last year, there appears to be no shortage of combatants that want to fight in/over/for some piece of urban terrain. Perhaps a brief step back in to…
5 LESSONS ON WAR FROM MY DESERT SHIELD/STORM
By James Holmes According to navy lore, a sea story starts with “there I was” — and everything that follows is a falsehood. So there I was, 25 years ago today, staring out across the vast Atlantic as a gunnery officer in the battleship USS Wisconsin. Destination: Persian Gulf. Herewith, five takeaways from Operations…
Americans Buy Into Marxist Family Planning
By Paul Kengor If you’ve never read “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published in 1848, you should especially right now. To be sure, reading this awful screed against human nature can be confusing, let alone unsatisfying and thoroughly unedifying. What do the authors mean, for example, when they screech: “Abolition of…
Has China’s War With America Already Begun?
By Steven Metz One of the hottest reads among Washington national security experts this summer is not the latest White House policy document or a big report from an influential think tank, but a novel by two of the national security community’s own: Peter Singer and August Cole. Their book, “Ghost Fleet,” is a…
Why I abandoned the Pocket-Clip Folding Knife Once and for All
By Hammerhead7 For the CO, having an outward “sterile” appearance is mandatory to retain tactical surprise. This is why I support concealed vs Open Carry for firearms. But what about knives? When it comes to knives, most CO’s are relegated to just sticking (ie “clipping”) a “tactical” folder in their pocket and moving on. But…
The “Batteriser”: Essential Prepper Gear
Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that extends disposable battery life by 800 percent by Jon Phillips | Bob Roohparvar tells a killer story of industrial espionage. He says the robbery occurred last October at his Batteroo office space in a sprawling Silicon Valley office park. The target was intellectual property surrounding Batteriser, a simple metal sleeve…
Emergence of License Plate Readers
Are you still naive enough to think it’s nobody’s business where you’ve been??? Big Brother begs to differ! Suppose someone were to follow you around in your car 24 hours a day and record where you were, who you were with, where you parked and how long you were there. Then suppose this person put…