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Category: Guerilla Warfare History
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…
RHODESIAN COIN TACTICS
Excellent piece on Counter-Insurgency Tactics. As a follow-up I recommend reading up on the British vs. The Chinese Communist in Malaya in 1948 aka “The War of the Running Dogs.”
Ordinary Men: A Profile of the Chechen Insurgents and their Tactics
Dodge Billingsly’s work covering the Chechen Wars is well worth the time, as is his book, Fangs of the Lone Wolf. via Ordinary Men: A Profile of the Chechen Insurgents and their Tactics — American Partisan
So we’re ‘Domestic Terrorists’, is that it?
The old saying that “One man’s Terrorist is another man’s Freedom Fighter” holds true now more than ever. The key as history dictates is to let the actions of the Aggressor (a Government gone off the rails) speak for themselves. Because the more Unconstitutional action they take, including violence against civilians via police thuggery, the…
China updates its ‘Art of (Hybrid) War’
China updates its ‘Art of (Hybrid) War’ I have emphasized the importance of understanding 4GW, aka “Hybrid” or “Asymmetrical” Warfare for some time on this blog. Understanding how War can be waged in every strata of society without a bullet ever being fired is mind blowing to some but none the less a painful…
Stanleyville, 1964
A visceral, but important short documentary to watch for anyone having ‘not seen the elephant’, as my friend Keypounder puts it. This is not a pleasant watch and it is not posted for entertainment. Wanna boogaloo? This is what boogaloo looks like. And the sound might have been dubbed here and there, but that was… via…
Historical Movies Worth A Damn: The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Any Martial Citizen worth his salt should own a book or two on the Irish Struggle for Independence against the British Empire, also know as “The Troubles”. When it comes to this topic and Guerilla Warfare as a whole, few movies are as historically accurate and as well made as The Wind that Shakes the…
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…