By Corey Adwar on June 18, 2015 Although he singlehandedly charged the enemy and protected sensitive U.S. military information, Pfc. Patrick Miller’s heroics were overshadowed and forgotten by a more sensational story. The March 23, 2003, ambush of 507th Maintenance Company in Nasiriyah, Iraq, was both a military and public relations disaster. Of 31 soldiers…
Category: Military History
Netflix Pix: The Invisible Front
The story of Freedom Fighter Juozas Luska and his band of partisans fighting the soviets in post-World War II Lithuania is one of the most inspiring and tragic tales of the fight against oppression and communism in the 20th century I have ever read about. You can read about it In his book, Forest Brothers, or…
Taking a Spoon to a Gunfight
David Maxwell April 2, 2014 · in Commentary Taking a Spoon to a Gunfight: The West Dealing with Russian Unconventional and Political Warfare in Former Soviet States As the Russians now try to reach a diplomatic solution in order to consolidate their gains in Crimea – as evidenced by Putin’s call to Obama and SECSTATE’s…
Learning from Insurgent Tactics: Going to Ground
PREPARING FOR WARFARE’S SUBTERRANEAN FUTURE by Benjamin Runkle Amidst the myriad mistakes associated with the Iraq War, perhaps none were as costly in terms of lives of U.S. personnel as the failure to anticipate the threat posed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and, subsequently, to rapidly develop technologies capable of detecting and defeating the insurgents’…
Learning from Insurgent Tactics: The Vehicle as a Weapon
The attack on Dallas PD this past Saturday by a man in an armored van represents a variation on a tactic that has not been seen since the DC Sniper Murders in 2002, where a man and his young accomplice, using a Chevy Caprice sedan and turning the trunk into a “mobile” sniper hide,…
FLAG DAY
I second that motion…let em’ fly!!
December 1942 (2)
Movement in Combat and the Historical Imperative
I don’t know about you, but my jaw hit the floor watching this guy. I think part of the reason for my amazement was he literally, in the span of about 5 minutes, through historical fact and obvious demonstration of SKILL, broke every stereo-typical ideal I had about archers in combat. Think back to…
Hybrid War: Old Concept, New Techniques
Hybrid War: Old Concept, New Techniques.
Learning From History: The Russian Caucasian Campaigns 1801-1864
Much can be learned and applied to the struggle many modern armies face today when we examine when the first Conventional Armies of the 19th Century Russian Empire sought to subjugate the Islamic tribes of the Caucusus’ http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/LP20_Russian-SovietUnconventionalWars.pdf (Note: The USACAC CSI Pubs are free and open to the public. Visit their site HERE.) Stay…