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Category: Guerilla Warfare History
Clay Martin: Boer Style Leadership and Boer Survival Lessons
Know Your WW2 History: William Slim – A Soldier’s General
Via: Fix Bayonets Here is, perhaps, World War II’s greatest general, and hardly anyone today knows his name. Field Marshal William Slim is best known for commanding Fourteenth Army in Burma during the Second World War (1939-45). In taking command, he inherited a disastrous situation in which, with practical skill and quiet charisma,…
It’s Time to Bring Back Citizen Militias
H/T WRSA It’s Time to Bring Back Citizen Militias My two cents on militias has always been PRACTICAL. The streak of natural disasters in the past decade shows this: Learn this Lesson Now: A Civilian “Militia” is more than Guys with Guns, It’s People that Help when the “Government” Could not Find…
Small Unit Tactics: Building a Fighting Position (Revised)
For the individual soldier, being able to build either a hasty or prepared position to fight from that will give you adequate cover and at the same time good fields of fire is essential for small units to be efficient in the field. All of the material I am covering here can be found…
The Road to Revolution
H/T WRSA The Road to Revolution The study of the Spanish Civil War is without a doubt one of the most practical historical topics to study for the modern day dissident. For Further Study: Guerilla Warfare 101: Lessons from the Spanish Civil War The Victorious Counter-Revolution, The Nationalist Effort in the…
Myanmar Guerillas Using Homemade Weaponry
H/T Impro Guns Another video of PDF fighters taking shots at Junta forces from an entrenched position. Pictures and videos have previously surfaced of bolt action .223 rifles which appear to be the same featured. At least one appears to be a bolt action 12 gauge shotgun. Guerilla forces have also been known to…
The Australian Guerilla
The Australian Guerrilla I was shocked to learn that Tactical Wisdom wasn’t a new idea recently. During the early days of World War Two, Japan and Germany were on the move. It looked like nothing could stop the Imperial Japanese Navy, especially after they destroyed the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Soon after, they…
Because Now It’s Personal: Causes that Produce the Guerilla
Because Now It’s Personal: Causes that Produce the Guerrilla Most of the men who fought with William Quantrill didn’t own slaves. They were just Missouri farm boys who wanted to be left alone, raise families and run farms of their own. What caused them to turn into the so called “bloodthirsty savages” they later…
Required Reading: Jack Hinson’s One Man War
The Story of Civil War Sniper Jack Hinson and His Rifle This book has been on my Required Reading List since it was first recommended to me during a Guerilla Sniper Class over a decade ago. You also might want to check out Bill Buppert’s podcast on the subject (H/T WRSA)