The Militant Drone Playbook “Therefore, we believe that militants will continue to view drones as a useful adjunct to their existing military repertoires, using them to assist in targeting forces on the battlefield, to harass command and logistic hubs, and to disrupt the supply and movement of adversaries’ soldiers and materiel.” Drones have a…
Category: Examining Terrorist Tactics
Lessons from Grozny: Deadly Classroom for Urban Combat
H/T to WRSA The Battle of Grozny: Deadly Classroom for Urban Combat
A Bunch of Dead Jihadist
30 Taliban fighters, including six IED ‘experts’, killed as bomb-making class goes wrong Napoleon was quoted as saying: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Damn Right. Let’s just hope the class size for the next bomb making class increases! Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
The Invisible Drug Lord: Hunting the Ghost
The Invisible Drug Lord: Hunting the Ghost For over a decade now I have been researching and studying how 21st century drug cartels and organized crime syndicates operate. I do this mainly for two reasons: Research for my writing Considering freedom loving guerillas/partisans have always (and are currently) seen as criminals (ie domestic terrorist) anyway,…
Fire and Maneuver in Urban AO’s
From the Archives, 2015. In a recent Article, Law Enforcement told how they found a very large collection of ‘tactical writings’ in the home of Dallas Police Shooter and Army Panty Bandit Micah Johnson. According to Police, the tactic of “Fire and Maneuver” or “Shoot and Move” was the tactic seen most often…
China tests swarm of ‘suicide drones’ launched from a truck and helicopters
Everyday the novel Ghost Fleet written in 2015 by PW Singer is becoming a daily reality. SCARY.
Mean Streets: The Clash of Technology and Terrain in Urban Warfare
From the Archives, 2016 In urban environments, the playing field is levelled between the conventional armies and insurgents BE IT ALEPPO or Damascus, Mosul or Ramadi, or even Eastern Ukraine, combatants in today’s conflicts are frequently fighting in and over urban areas. The decision to wage war in cities is driven in part by…
Learning from Insurgent Tactics: The Vehicle as a Weapon
From the Archives, 2015 The attack on Dallas PD this past Saturday by a man in an armored van represents a variation on a tactic that has not been seen since the DC Sniper Murders in 2002, where a man and his young accomplice, using a Chevy Caprice sedan and turning the trunk into a…
Urban Guerilla Sniping v3.0
“History is nothing else than a long succession of useless cruelties.” (Voltaire) When you look at the situation in Syria, you see the logic in Voltaire’s prose. I suppose it is the hopeless romantic in me that wishes for a world that is not filled with asshole tyrants and despots that take advantage of…
Why the Average Civilian Should Study Asymmetrical Warfare
From the Archives, 2015. I got asked this question the other day by a close friend and it occurred to me that I had never really plainly answered that question on this blog, even though I talk about the subject frequently. I think the best way to approach this subject is through historical precedent. It…