Criminal Groups Are Ramping Up Explosives in Mexico A series of recent attacks using improvised explosive devices in Mexico points to a generalization of warfare tactics among criminal groups. A Mexican army helicopter was flying over a hill in Apatzingán, in the western state of Michoacán, when it was attacked by a criminal group…
Category: Modern War
Real Modern Warfare (Limited Joo Edition)
Attention White Men: Time to Get Your Rhodesia On
Rhodesia and What Could Have Been Don Shift Sends: SHTF Lessons from Rhodesia Rhodesia’s Death, Europe’s Funeral
Modern Warfare: Russian BRT Dronoboy Anti-UAV Muzzle Attachment
Russian BRT Dronoboy Anti-UAV Muzzle Attachment FPV kamikaze drones have really changed the battlefield. They are small, fast, cheap and devastating against infantry and vehicles alike. The Russo-Ukrainian war is probably the conflict where these machines have been used most extensively and ever since the sides started deploying them, they have also been trying…
Texas News: Dallas Police Officer Executed While In Patrol Car
Dallas police officer ‘executed,’ 2 others injured in targeted shooting So what you have here is a planned execution and subsequent ambush on the Law Enforcement QRF (Quick Reaction Force or back-up). These types of guerilla warfare tactics were used by insurgents in Northern Ireland and Iraq and Afghanistan time and time again with…
Future Warfare: You Can’t go to War With Your Factory
You Can’t go to War With Your Factory I know I talk about the book Ghost Fleet a lot on this blog, but it seems every time I read an article about WW3 or China, I am reminded of something I read in that book! Think for a moment how much of a disadvantage…
Guerilla Warfare History: Because Now It’s Personal – Causes that Produce the Guerilla
Because Now It’s Personal: Causes that Produce the Guerrilla Most of the men who fought with William Quantrill didn’t own slaves. They were just Missouri farm boys who wanted to be left alone, raise families and run farms of their own. What caused them to turn into the so called “bloodthirsty savages” they later…
The Left Wants 1936 Spain
The Left Wants 1936 Spain One plausible angle to consider in this goat rodeo.
One Red Line Too Many
One Red Line Too Many In terms of appeasement Russian President Vladimir Putin has been extraordinarily patient. From the enlargement of NATO to crossing multiple red lines a small coterie of Western war hawks in the pay of Washington DC insolently ignores warnings to back off by Russia’s head of the state. What is…
Small Unit Tactics 101: Assessing the Effects of Fires
Assessing the Effects of Fires Anyone who has ever done any sort of small-unit tactics training can remember “covering” a buddy while they move. This is good to learn, but there can be a bit of misunderstanding as to what actually constitutes “covering fire” or “suppression”. Just because you are putting rounds downrange does not necessarily mean…