Calculus of Decay Reading List My good friend Eric over at Calculus of Decay has posted a STELLAR Reading List on his site and I Highly Recommend you Download these titles to a Flash Drive for future reference. Knowledge is Power!
Category: Contributing Authors
Dealing With Armored Attackers & The Police PDW Concept
By C.R. Williams I was recently asked to offer my thoughts about this article written by Captain Jim Pope of the Columbus, Georgia Police Department. In it, Captain Pope first makes a case for why every officer needs a Personal Defense Weapon for which he offers this general description: “… it can be generally agreed…
Travelling with Firearms – a Three State Trip by Air
As a frequent HCS contributor, Mr E., made a trip recently to a few states and wanted to share some observations about the TSA, airline ticket counters and the processes he encountered in various airports while travelling with a weapon. Pay attention all you travelling businessman with CCL’s, this will come in handy! -SF By Mr….
National Readiness Impossible without Personal Readiness
By John Farnam “Who will not admit he is wrong, cannot repent of his mistake. Who cannot repent of his mistakes, cannot learn from them. Who cannot learn from their mistakes, are doomed to repeat them!” ~ Anon “Given that some attacks have been stopped by gun-carrying civilians, Israeli Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, in…
Crusader Corner: The Myth of the ‘Moderate Muslim’
“When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.” – The Quran, Surah 9:5 When it comes to the global scourge of orthodox Islam, the Western world, which Islamists expressly seek to “destroy from within,” is an upside-down realm wherein objective…
There is No Such Thing as “Regulating Rights”
By John Farnam “Rights?” When someone says, in so many words, “I have a ‘right’ to never have anything bad happen to me,” they are displaying a level of ignorance and self-delusion that ultimately makes for them a short, and unhappy, life. And, they are unfit for citizenship in a free Republic! Our Constitution provides…
NO! You can’t have my Civil Rights, I am Using Them Right Now!
“The ‘looters’ credo’ has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter, who simpers that he…
A Grunt’s Thoughts on the Loss of Kunduz
By Ryan Blum Best Defense guest columnist As I’m scrolling through my Facebook feed during my Monday morning commute I almost overlook a post from my old Company Commander: “Taliban Fighters Overrun Kunduz City as Afghan Forces Retreat” My mouth drops. Back in March of 2010 my unit took responsibility for Kunduz Province in northern…
Why Your Intelligence Section Must ID Gang Activity Now
“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.” – George Washington By Samuel Culper This past weekend, we had the great fortune to see some of the good, the bad, and the ugly in West Virginia. First…
5 Battlefield Innovations that came from the Rank-and-File Troops
by Mike Denny It’s not always the think tanks and military scientists who invent new military equipment. Military personnel are a crafty bunch. They surprise their commanders and buddies with many good — and, let’s be honest, some bad — innovations. Some of these battlefield creations even surprise the teams of scientists and industry…