Lines of drift are the routes people are naturally pulled toward by the ground. Not because they are marked. Not because they are official. But because they make movement easier, cleaner, or more logical. That is why paths are not always roads. In a recon context, people often follow the line that offers the…
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Booby Traps from the Vietnam War
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…
Armed Citizen Corner: Shooting at Moving Vehicles
Shooting at moving vehicles To shoot or not to shoot is the decades-old question when confronted with the decision to shoot the driver of a vehicle you perceive as intending to run you over. Some departments strictly forbid their officers from shooting at moving vehicles. As with any use of force, there are many…
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: Close with the Enemy
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: Close with the Enemy Most hand-to-hand fighting is over who controls the weapons. The Irrigation Ditch The Rangers had been on the ground for less than a minute when small-arms fire cracked from close range. After evacuating two wounded—one with a life-threatening gunshot wound—they began clearing a large grassy…
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off Memorizing TTPs won’t save you; fighting under resistance will. Baghdad Checkpoint The gunner let loose a long burst of machine-gun fire through the windshield of a speeding car. Days earlier, two Rangers had been killed nearby when a “pregnant” woman detonated a suicide vest at…
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…
Young Men, Political Violence is Your Obligation
Young Men, Political Violence is Your Obligation Young Men, We Need a Factory Reset For our entire lives we’ve heard schoolmarms, the media, liberal Christians and other subversives lecturing young men that “violence doesn’t solve problems.” Every time we have a public killing, we are told “political violence isn’t the answer.” Now, anyone who…
Bullets Follow Walls – Explained
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…
Kamikaze Drones
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…