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…
Category: Military History
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!!
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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…
Lessons from Custer
By John S. Farnam, Defense Training International The Little Big Horn, Saturday, 25 June 1876 The biggest problem American Indians faced with European immigrants was that they kept allying themselves with the losing side! During the French and Indian War, Indians allied themselves with the French. The French lost. During the Revolutionary War, Indians allied…
Netflix Pix: Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
Guys, you gotta do yourself a big favor and carve out a hour of your time and watch this documentary. If you call yourself a Patriot and lover of Freedom, this documentary will not only grab ahold of your heart but also piss you off to no end…yeah, this show involves your Government turning it’s…