Movement is shaped long before it is seen. Terrain dictates options. Options dictate decisions. Decisions create patterns. Barriers reduce freedom of movement. Vegetation, slope, water, and ground conditions force people to adjust. They do not move where they want. They move where terrain allows them to. That creates predictable behavior. Movement follows the easier…
Category: Fieldcraft
Fieldcraft: Lines of Drift
Lines of drift are the routes people are naturally pulled toward by the ground. Not because they are marked. Not because they are official. But because they make movement easier, cleaner, or more logical. That is why paths are not always roads. In a recon context, people often follow the line that offers the…
Prepping 101: Grid Down Comms
Grid Down Comms In 2025, the simplicity of communication barely registers as a thought. Imagine your ancestors from a century ago learning about the information and communication potential of the phone in your pocket. The idea that global communication could be so effortless would leave them dumbfounded. These capabilities are easy to take for granted…
The Surveillance State: IMSI Catchers
H/T American Partisan Understanding How IMSI-Catchers Exploit Cell Networks Some additional reading on How to Catch an IMSI Catcher.
Motorbike Warfare
Via: Matthew Bracken Substack Circa 1997, I was in Panama, on the Caribbean side, getting my boat ready to transit the canal to the Pacific. I was walking from Colon’s old so-called yacht club (now long gone) through an industrial port area to get to Colon City. When I was passing about…
Cold Weather Prep.
Via: WRSA Download to your SHTF Flash and Print a Hard Copy for your Field Binder: FM 31-70 Basic Cold Weather Manual USMC MWTC Winter Survival Course
Got Camo?
H/T: The Outlaw Josey Wales Take a minute and evaluate your Camo Situation. If it needs improvement, rectify it now. There is some amazing Camouflage for the Hunter and Martial Civilian alike out there DO NOT Make it Easy for Them!
Prepatude
Prepatude “It was a different world back then and Gen X kids, who were pretty free-range.” Prepping is a subject that has been near and dear to my heart since I was a kid. The Wilder family would frequently go on long hikes and snowmobile trips into the backcountry. Likewise, we’d go hunting…
FUSA Bulletin: In NC Residents are the First Responders
In mountainous North Carolina, Residents are the First Responders after Hurricane Helene During 12 years as a National Guard member in New York, Tom Ford worked on relief missions to hurricane-hit communities, including when Sandy pummeled the New York area in 2012. But he’s never seen anything as bad as the impact of Hurricane…
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