The sinking of RMS Lusitania during WWI RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915. The luxury passenger liner was crossing the Atlantic from New York to Liverpool when the German submarine U-20 fired without warning. After a second explosion – the cause of which is still debated – the ship quickly sank. It…
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Army’s New Combat Fitness Test (CFT)
It appears the Army is FINALLY taking a step in the right direction and actually fostering a training environment where WARFIGHTING is the primary goal and not DEI quotas, transgender “acceptance” training Of course the USMC has been doing this type of training in AIT for some time, but not everybody can be a Marine,…
Booby Traps from the Vietnam War
Assessing “Cognitive Warfare”
Despite its introduction over a decade ago by the People’s Liberation Army, there is no common understanding of Cognitive Warfare. Nor is there an agreement on the existence of a human or cognitive domain. These concepts compete in a crowded and confusing field centered around information technology and the related information dimension of statecraft….
SELCO: The Truth About SNIPERS and How to Survive Them
SELCO: The Truth About SNIPERS and How to Survive Them Because of the growing fear of mass shootings and terrorist attacks all over the world, advice about how to survive mass shootings or sniper attacks are everywhere, and there are useful but there is a bit of confusion there. Sniper attacks in collapse and mass shootings today in…
The Guns of Faction: Part One
The Guns of Faction: Part One My 2019 novel, Faction, was recognized by many readers as having weapons which seemed at first glance exotic, but were, in fact, rather straightforward, off-the-shelf weapons with slight modifications to make them more useful in urban operations. Let’s examine them in this series, one by one. The criteria for…
D-Boys in Hat Creek Idaho Reaching Out and Touching Someone
Venezuela Invasion?
Via: Simplicius But while Trump himself uses the UN stage to grandstand and moralize against Russia, he has been furtively building up an alarming force off the Venezuelan coast which is in need of mentioning. What began as ostensible strikes against ‘Venezuelan terrorists and drug smugglers’ has slowly been shaping up into what…
Resource Library: Seven Pillars of Small War Power
Seven_Pillars_of_Small_War_Power THE WORLD SEEMED to breathe a collective sigh of relief at the end of the long Cold War. That momentous event, however, did not mark the end of global armed conflict. While the number of armed conflicts worldwide has been declining since peaking in the early 1990s, and a conventional war between two…
The Evolution of the Battle Rifle: From the FAL to Today’s AR-10
The Evolution of the Battle Rifle: From the FAL to Today’s AR-10 For firearm enthusiasts, military historians, and professional shooters, the battle rifle is revered as a symbol of the evolution of modern weaponry. From the iconic FN FAL, famously known as “The Right Arm of the Free World,” to the robust and versatile…