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Bullets Follow Walls – Explained

Posted on 8 March 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

  I remember when I started MOUT training, I heard the phrase “bullets follow walls, so stay away from walls.” I heard it and did it, but I had to eventually ask what it meant. Why do bullets follow walls? At 18, I had no idea what bullets did. I was told to shut up…

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Kamikaze Drones

Posted on 27 February 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

Ukraine pumping out kamikaze drones for as little as $300 – and they can destroy tanks: ‘This is modern warfare’   KYIV — They’re small, but mighty — and deadly, too. The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ reliance on cheaper, more compact drones has altered the look of warfare for good, operators and experts tell The Post. Instead of the…

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Refusal

Posted on 21 December 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

 

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Motorbike Warfare

Posted on 12 December 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Via: Matthew Bracken Substack   Circa 1997, I was in Panama, on the Caribbean side, getting my boat ready to transit the canal to the Pacific.     I was walking from Colon’s old so-called yacht club (now long gone) through an industrial port area to get to Colon City. When I was passing about…

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Essential Reading Trifecta

Posted on 30 November 202430 November 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

https://archive.org/details/total-resistance-swiss-army-guide-to-guerrilla-warfare-paladin-press_202303     https://archive.org/details/war-of-the-flea-the-classic-study-of-guerrilla-warfare-robert-taber     https://archive.org/details/FryTheBrainTheArtOfUrbanSniping     **Before you shell out your precious hard earned shekels for ANY book, ALWAYS check the Internet Archive for possible FREE Download options.**  

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Attention White Men: Time to Get Your Rhodesia On

Posted on 11 September 202411 September 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

      Rhodesia and What Could Have Been   Don Shift Sends: SHTF Lessons from Rhodesia     Rhodesia’s Death, Europe’s Funeral  

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Know Your Dissident History: The Battle of Athens (1946)

Posted on 26 August 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

  This incident occurred in Athens, Tennessee in 1946. Many are completely unaware that an armed revolt by WWII veterans took place on American soil. Now the Second Amendment can be understood in it’s Original, unaltered Context: To Arm Citizens in order to protect themselves against a Tyrannical and Corrupt Government.     FACTS: The…

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Reference Library: CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual

Posted on 12 August 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual   (Via: HSDL) This historical document was originally published by the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS; now the Central Intelligence Agency) in 1944, for use by OSS agents in motivating or recruiting potential foreign saboteurs. Agents were granted permission to print and disseminate portions of the document as…

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Urban Guerilla Sniping v3.0

Posted on 18 July 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

“History is nothing else than a long succession of useless cruelties.” (Voltaire)   When you look at the situation in Syria, you see the logic in Voltaire’s prose. I suppose it is the hopeless romantic in me that wishes for a world that is not filled with asshole tyrants and despots that take advantage of…

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Guerilla Warfare History: Because Now It’s Personal – Causes that Produce the Guerilla

Posted on 17 July 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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