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Category: Military History
Know Your History: The Cancer of Communism
The Greatest Battle in the History of the World Just Remember
The AK-74 in Ukraine
THE AK-74 IN UKRAINE: A HISTORY & MORE For all you fellow Kalash Lovers and AK Afficonados out there. Know Your History. Know Your Weapons. Know your Ammo.
Know Your WW2 History: Operation Barbarossa
The Nazi-Soviet War was the Largest Land Battle Ever Fought Excellent read on Operation Barbarossa with some really nice pictures. For all my fellow Military Historians out there, here is a short list on the subject: Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Russia’s War: A History of the…
World War II Documentaries Worth A Damn: Lancaster – Above and Beyond
Lancaster – Above and Beyond The Avro Lancaster was a British Heavy Bomber used extensively during WW2 to take the war into Germany. This documentary dives deep into both the history of the aircraft itself and the amazing crews that flew them into battle. The Dambuster Operation of 1943, aka Squadron X led by…
AN EASY “W”
An Easy “W” I must have watched this movie half a dozen times growing up as a kid and like the author, yes, the ideal presented (using the U.S. Military to eradicate Drug Cartels) seemed like a perfectly legit and logical thing to do. You see one of the MANY problems we have in…
SKS Collecting And Identification: A Buyer’s Guide
SKS Collecting And Identification: A Buyer’s Guide I had a C&R License (FFL 03) for around twenty years off and on back in the “golden era” when you could find plenty of German and Yugo Mausers, Lee- Enfields, Mosin-Nagants, Swiss K-31’s and Norinco and Russian SKS’s all for very reasonable prices. It was a…
Know Your Weapons: Mannlicher M1895 Rifle
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY’S M-95 Rifle “The M95 proved itself one of the finest battle rifles of the First World War. It weighed around a pound less than its equally lengthy peers and was slim and almost delicate by comparison. The soldiers who carried it appreciated its light weight but the Allied soldiers facing the M95 in…
Know Your History: Russian Invasion of Finland, The Winter War 1939-1940
H/T VikingLife Blog Never under estimate a people that want to defend their culture and homeland. Holding out for three months against the might of the Soviet War Machine is not bad. Of course you cannot discuss the Winter War without discussing The White Death, Simo Hayha. Simo Hayha is proof that cultivating…
Small Unit Tactics: RECCE Patrolling
Recce Patrolling I: The Recce Team This is the first installment in a series of OUTSTANDING articles on Recon Basics (Reconnaissance) from from Justin over at Swift Silent Deadly. Small Unit Tactics is a subject every serious Armed Citizen needs to study and TRAIN on in-depth. I highly recommend you seek out my friend…