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Category: Asymmetrical Warfare
Cartel Corner: Cartels Use Car Bomb, Suicide Bomber to Attack Police in Western Mexico
Cartels Use Car Bomb, Suicide Bomber to Attack Police in Western Mexico I have used the term “Criminal Insurgency” several times on this blog in the past few years and the reason for that is made perfectly clear in this article. Cartels and Cartel-Affiliated Gangs have been using the same insurgent tactics we witnessed…
Blast at a Tennessee Explosives Plant leaves 18 missing and feared dead
If you value this story or any others, please consider sharing, or even becoming a paid subscriber. Your support is always gratefully received, and will never be forgotten. To buy me a coffee or two, please click this link. Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 18 missing and feared dead The plant that…
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: Close with the Enemy
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: Close with the Enemy Most hand-to-hand fighting is over who controls the weapons. The Irrigation Ditch The Rangers had been on the ground for less than a minute when small-arms fire cracked from close range. After evacuating two wounded—one with a life-threatening gunshot wound—they began clearing a large grassy…
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off Memorizing TTPs won’t save you; fighting under resistance will. Baghdad Checkpoint The gunner let loose a long burst of machine-gun fire through the windshield of a speeding car. Days earlier, two Rangers had been killed nearby when a “pregnant” woman detonated a suicide vest at…
Resource Library: Seven Pillars of Small War Power
Seven_Pillars_of_Small_War_Power THE WORLD SEEMED to breathe a collective sigh of relief at the end of the long Cold War. That momentous event, however, did not mark the end of global armed conflict. While the number of armed conflicts worldwide has been declining since peaking in the early 1990s, and a conventional war between two…
Shoot & Scoot
Lessons: Windows and Doors “Frame” you as a target, AVOID standing in them. If you must shoot out of a window or door, lower your profile. OODA Loop 101: Never Stay in one place too long in a gunfight; ‘Shoot and Scoot’ or ‘Get off the X’ and force your enemy to re-calibrate. Success…
Drone Warfare: Drone Trumps Sniper
Resist
Bullets Follow Walls – Explained
I remember when I started MOUT training, I heard the phrase “bullets follow walls, so stay away from walls.” I heard it and did it, but I had to eventually ask what it meant. Why do bullets follow walls? At 18, I had no idea what bullets did. I was told to shut up…