I just finished watching the HBO documentary “Terror at the Mall” about the Nairobi Kenya Westgate Mall Attack last year by Al-Shabaab Terrorist that left 67 dead and 155 wounded. Almost all of the documentary is CCTV footage from that day narrated by the actual survivors. There is also some awesome LIVE video and photographs…
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Books for September
One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War (Bing West) I am a fan of West ever since I Read No True Glory. The guy gives it to you straight with no bullshit or fluff, if you want to know about War with a Marine Platoon, read this. Level Zero Heroes: The Story…
Netflix Pix for September
1. The Assets An 8 Part Television Mini-Series based on the book Circle of Treason by Sandra Grimes which chronicles the career and capture of infamous Cold War CIA traitor Aldrich Ames. For those of you that like a good Cold War espionage tale, this is it. It is very much in the vein of…
Learning from Insurgent Tactics: The Ambush
In our last installment, we discussed at length the “Hide n’ Glide” where Taliban and Iraqi insurgents/terrorist strategically hide weapons and at opportune moments, attack U.S. and coalition personnel and then attempt afterwards to blend back in with the general populace. Today we are going to discuss how the insurgents plan and execute the…
The Enterovirus Wake Up Call
It appears the first tangible repercussions of mr. obamas “OPEN BORDER” Policy is upon us…anybody surprised? Unfortunately for the rest of America, liberals are not going to realize the damage they have wrought on all of us until they personally experience the ramifications of supporting Barack Obama.At this juncture, maybe an illegal-immigrant-caused m….
13 Hours at Benghazi
The disaster at Benghazi, Libya on 9/11/12 where 3 Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stephens, lost their lives was undoubtedly one of the worst failures of ANY presidential administration in the last 20 years. Not only the failure to ACT in a timely manner, but the extent of how far people have gone to LIE about…
Black on White Hate Crime Violence: The Unspoken Epidemic?
Two videos showing that Black on White HATE CRIME VIOLENCE is much more frequent an occurrence than most people realize or even care to admit. [youtube=http://youtu.be/a5TwYKM5moE] [youtube=http://youtu.be/ru8WTYB6qoY] It appears white people being brutally assaulted by black gangs in Missouri (only 3 hours from where the Michael Brown debacle occurred in Ferguson) and Memphis, Tennessee is…
First Rule: Always Assume they are Armed!
[youtube=http://youtu.be/wQIAFeC10cY] Today’s lesson boys and girls involves ALWAYS ASSUMING YOUR ENEMY IS ARMED! As we see in the above vid, these two “loss prevention clerks” did not, and it almost cost them both DEARLY. The only saving grace in this incident was that the alleged shoplifter with the knife was UNTRAINED and UNMOTIVATED. As CO’s…
Date Rape Detector Nail Polish in the Works!
http://www.cnet.com/news/this-nail-polish-may-detect-date-rape-drugs/ While Most “Liberal” Date Rape Prevention (and even Crime Prevention) methods could be termed “Impractical” and “Would not work in a Million Years”, every once in a while you hear about a “non-firearm solution” or “detection” anti-rape product that is simply genius, especially when you consider the company merged FASHION and RAPE PREVENTION…
Learning from Insurgent Tactics: The “Hide n’ Glide”
Since the War in Afghanistan and Iraq began, we have seen a multitude of different “insurgent” tactics come to light, the most notable (and deadly) ones being the use of the IED and VBIED (Vehicle Born IED’s) in ambushes, booby-traps and suicide attacks. But as far as actual ground tactics the enemy uses, there…