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: Guerilla Warfare
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…
The South African Recce “Niemoller Rig”
About the famed ‘Niemoller Rig’ The so-called SADF Recce “Niemoller Rig” or Niemoller webbing belt kit, hailing from the Bush War era, is iconic when it comes to minimalist gear with a maximalist capability. Sterile for deniability and everlasting– intended for use on 200-mile insertions (and 1,200-mile exfiltrations) across inhospitable terrain– it was born…
DIY Spike Strip
Your Enemy is Training to Kill You
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Booby Traps from the Vietnam War
Cartel Corner: Cartels Use Car Bomb, Suicide Bomber to Attack Police in Western Mexico
Cartels Use Car Bomb, Suicide Bomber to Attack Police in Western Mexico I have used the term “Criminal Insurgency” several times on this blog in the past few years and the reason for that is made perfectly clear in this article. Cartels and Cartel-Affiliated Gangs have been using the same insurgent tactics we witnessed…
The Guns of Faction: Part One
The Guns of Faction: Part One My 2019 novel, Faction, was recognized by many readers as having weapons which seemed at first glance exotic, but were, in fact, rather straightforward, off-the-shelf weapons with slight modifications to make them more useful in urban operations. Let’s examine them in this series, one by one. The criteria for…
Blast at a Tennessee Explosives Plant leaves 18 missing and feared dead
If you value this story or any others, please consider sharing, or even becoming a paid subscriber. Your support is always gratefully received, and will never be forgotten. To buy me a coffee or two, please click this link. Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 18 missing and feared dead The plant that…
Resource Library: Seven Pillars of Small War Power
Seven_Pillars_of_Small_War_Power THE WORLD SEEMED to breathe a collective sigh of relief at the end of the long Cold War. That momentous event, however, did not mark the end of global armed conflict. While the number of armed conflicts worldwide has been declining since peaking in the early 1990s, and a conventional war between two…