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Modern Crime: Illegal Online Arms Trade in North Africa Skyrocketing

Posted on 8 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

An online marketplace for illicit weapons is thriving in the Middle East and North Africa, according to a study released today that found sales of heavy machine guns, rocket and grenade launchers, and anti-aircraft guns on private Facebook groups in Libya. During his 40-year reign, colonel Muammar Gaddafi stockpiled an estimated $30 billion worth of weapons. At the time,…

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The History of Guerilla Warfare: Ancient Bullet Supports Accounts of T.E. Lawrence

Posted on 2 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Experts say discovery in the desert, near scene of famous train raid, seems to prove British diplomat’s memoir was not just a tall tale A bullet from a Colt gun found in the Arabian desert lends credence to TE Lawrence’s own account of his part in the Arab revolt in the early 20th century. Until…

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Military Defense News: After Benghazi, USMC Marks New Approach to Embassy Security in Africa

Posted on 31 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Close to the third anniversary of the infamous Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a small detachment of Marines descended on the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, Mali, on the other side of the African continent. The little-publicized 48-hour operation took about 200 Marines attached to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground…

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Military Defense News: “Train and Equip” Program in Syria = Full Metal Retard, Part Deux

Posted on 29 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

When you start reading this, you will begin shaking your head in disbelief. When you have finished reading this, you will be looking for a bottle of advil because your head will be pounding.-SF It would be difficult to find a program that better exemplifies the word “failure” than the Pentagon’s “train and equip” effort…

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The Persian Army of Xerxes is Preparing to TRY and Rule the World….Again.

Posted on 17 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Ever see the movie 300? or it’s not so great sequel 300: Rise of an Empire? Yeah the enemy the Greeks are fighting in those movies are the Persians…the ancestors of the modern day Quds Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah. -SF Iran preparing to dispatch snipers, commandos to Syria As Russia announces pullout, Tehran says it…

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Military History: How the IED Rocked the Modern Battlefield

Posted on 11 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Brian Castner’s new book offers unflinching testimony of how the IED devastated the EOD community in Iraq and Afghanistan.   The face of the man who wanted to kill me wasn’t immediately visible — the photo of him required close examination. My company commander took the picture while deployed to Iraq in 2005. On a…

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The Rise of the Hybrid Warriors: From Ukraine to the Middle East

Posted on 9 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The Iraqi Army defenders of Ramadi had held their dusty, stony ground for over a year and become familiar with the increasing adeptness of their opponents waving black flags. At first, these Iraqi Army units simply faced sprayed rifle fire, but then it was well-placed sniper rounds that forced these weary units to keep under…

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STRATFOR Founder Warns: “Be Ready for War”

Posted on 8 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Interstate warfare is a thankfully unusual occurrence in the present day. State-assisted nonstate groups frequently fight governments, a scenario currently unfolding in Syria, Eastern Ukraine, and a host of other places. But you’d have to go back to the US-led invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 2003, or the Eritrea-Ethiopia conflict of the late 1990s for an example…

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ISIS Corner: The Islamic State’s Tunisia Strategy

Posted on 8 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Bottom Line Up Front: • Armed militants are suspected to have crossed into Tunisia from Libya on March 7, carrying out attacks on Tunisian security forces in the border town of Ben Gardane • The assault comes less than a week after five militants crossed the border from Libya and were killed in a shootout with Tunisian…

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Brush-Up On Your History: The Crusades and Syria

Posted on 7 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

  [Taken from the blog Bionic Mosquito.]   The Battle for Syria Part I There ran down the edges of the desert a string of cities and their connecting road – Aleppo, Homs, Damascus…. As long as these cities remain in enemy hands, the seacoast (Lebanon and Israel) will not be secure.  But this isn’t…

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