Part of a contest you can find HERE. BTW, not a bad time to study up on types of UAV’s currently in use, since you might be seeing one in your neck of the woods soon. Just for kicks, I will list my guesses tomorrow. Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!
Category: Military History
Expeditionary Warfare: Learning from the Falklands Campaign
IS THE U.S. MILITARY READY FOR A FALKLANDS WAR SCENARIO? Kenneth L. Privratsky In late March 1982, a naval task force departed the shores of Argentina under the pretense of participating in an exercise with Uruguay. Days later it arrived offshore of the Falkland Islands, an archipelago in the South Atlantic with 1,850 inhabitants…
The South Did Rise Again
Reconstruction as America’s First Failure in Counterinsurgency Wikicommons:Freedmen’s Schoolhouse Burns in 1866 Memphis Riot Warfare is often cited as the continuation of politics by other means, but the difference can be quite blurry. This is particularly the case in the tense period after the settlement of conventional hostilities, or in the insurgency that sometimes follows…
De-Constructing Hybrid Warfare
Hybrid war- does it even exist? (Original Article in NATO Review) The recent Russian intervention in Ukraine has generated much debate about the use and effectiveness of hybrid warfare, a type of warfare widely understood to blend conventional/unconventional, regular/irregular, and information and cyber warfare. An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a…
7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Civil War
Dear Readers, As a Lover of History, I felt it was TIME TO DISPENSE WITH THE HISTORICAL INACCURACIES. Please seek out the truth for yourselves. And just so you know, the lame-stream media and the Government are bad places to start. -HCS Staff Article By Daniel Amduri With all of the controversy surrounding the Confederate…
Military History Parallels: You Can Never Dominate from the Air Alone
Doomed: Saudi Arabia Will Fail in Yemen By Asher Orkaby As the warring Yemeni parties gather for preliminary peace talks in Geneva, Saudi Arabia continues its unrelenting bombing campaign against the tribes of the Houthi movement. For two and a half months, the air forces of the Saudi coalition have targeted military sites, homes and…
Netflix Pix: Point and Shoot
For those of you out there that don’t mind homemade movies, you might like this quirky, offbeat documentary of Matthew Van Dyke, an American College Graduate who suffers with OCD who sets out to see the world and really experience life first hand. (WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!) He buys a Video Camera, a Motorcycle and a…
How the US Army Rangers the Became Bad-Asses They are Today
By Christian Beekman During World War II, Darby’s Rangers embodied the spirit of today’s forces: Rangers lead the way. June 19, 1942, is not a familiar date to most. But members of the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment know it well; it’s the date of activation of the 1st Ranger Battalion, under the command of…
Why the Average Civilian should study Asymmetrical Warfare
From the Archives, 2015. I got asked this question the other day by a close friend and it occurred to me that I had never really plainly answered that question on this blog, even though I talk about the subject frequently. I think the best way to approach this subject is through historical precedent. It…
The Missed Counter-Insurgency Lessons in Lone Survivor (Film)
(Normally, we start the year with our “Most Intriguing Event of the Year”. But since Lone Survivor hit theaters across the country on January 10th, we’re devoting this week to that topic. To read all of our Lone Survivor posts, please click here. The most important post is “A List of the Mistakes and Differences…