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…
Category: Guerilla Warfare History
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…
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…
Reading For The Near Future
I highly recommend going over to WRSA and spending some time reading through their reference reading materials on GW and 4GW. It would be time better spent than reading fake news and fear mongering I assure you.
End State — Times 57
Jungle Crash: Notes on Operation Jaque
Good Stuff from the Brushbeater/NC Scout. Matt Bracken passed along the following: Last night the Nat Geo channel showed the episode “Jungle Crash,” where a joint Colombian/US .mil ELINT surveillance plane crashes in FARC territory in the early 2000s. DEA and .mil operators are captured and spend 5 years in FARC jungle camps. The only…
Radio Contra Episode I
This is AP’s first podcast so drop what you are doing, tune in and try to learn something! Radio Contra Episode 1: NC Scout discusses parallels between the Chechen resistance against the Russian Army to Appalachian folk and the potential future fight against a standing army in the Appalachian region. Music: Clutch “Son of…
A Good Read On PsyOps in Guerrilla Warfare
Another worthwhile read from AP. Do yourself a favor and become a student of the in’s and out’s of Guerilla Warfare. The life you save may be your own. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous! One of the most frequent questions I get, whether its in class, comments on posts, or in emails, is folks…