How did the Zulus Interact with the Voortrekkers? | The Zulu-Boer War (1835-1839) Thanks to Viking Life Blog for this short and informative history lesson! Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
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Inside Air America: The CIA’s Secret Airline
Supplying guerrilla bases deep in the highlands behind the lines. An older but awesome documentary on the little known story of Air America. Good stuff. -NCS via Inside Air America: The CIA’s Secret Airline — American Partisan
Know Your Weapons: Military Rifle Calibers & Three Confusions
Military Rifle Calibers & Three Confusions! Another short and sweet firearms history lesson by Mr. John Farnam, USMC.
THE VIKINGS IN IRELAND 795–1014 Part I
I am reading a short novel right now about the Vikings in Ireland so I found this fascinating. Few places suffered more at the hands of the Vikings than Ireland. For the best part of 200 years the Vikings systematically milked Ireland of its people to supply the slave trade, yet, for all their military…
Know Your History: The Invisible Hand of Conquest – How Smallpox Defeated Armies, Toppled Empires & Changed History
Getting a Big Picture understanding of how contagions have shaped our history can put things in perspective. “Its presence shaped the fate of North America fully as much as any bullets, blades or bayonets.” By John Danielski THE CORONA VIRUS is not the first contagion to threaten the stability of civilization. Throughout history, disease…
Know Your History: WW2 Trifecta
Some Light Reading… This Panzer Ace Destroyed More Than A Dozen British Tanks Operation Queen: The Western Allied November 1944 Offensive Ireland Was Neutral in World War II, so Why Did the Nazis Attack It?
The Oldest Companies In Existence
Informative Read, especially when you read BETWEEN the lines.
Know Your History: Multicultural Vikings?
Multicultural Vikings The on-going agenda by so called “academics” on the left to manipulate the present by distorting the past needs to be confronted head on. Know Your History. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Military Organisation of the Holy Roman Empire
Know Your History, it’s Interesting Reading! Although firmly rooted and fairly well developed in the Rhineland, Franconia, Lorraine (the old Lotharingia) and Burgundy, feudalism in its widest sense was never as strong in Germany as in, say, France or England, and true knighthood and the customary granting of fiefs was unknown in Germany until…
The Italian Years of Lead: Could the Secret “Strategy of Tension” Foreshadow America’s Future?
Know your History. What’s going to happen when the Left doesn’t get its way in 2020? We’ve already seen senior campaign officials from Bernie Sanders telegraphing their intent– and while many chest thumpers are busy saying “You ain’t gonna do that to me!” its important to note that the Left maintains a long-term strategy versus…