Category: Studies in Warfare
The Surveillance State: IMSI Catchers
H/T American Partisan Understanding How IMSI-Catchers Exploit Cell Networks Some additional reading on How to Catch an IMSI Catcher.
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…
Drone Warfare in CW2
Drone Warfare in CW2 Some of the most successful (and profitable) YouTube channels are devoted to what some may refer to as gun porn. So much so that this sub-genre is referred to as GunTube. Garand Thumb and Brandon Herrera are two of the wildly popular channels that I subscribe to. Between…
Guerilla Warfare History: PIRA Launches Mortar Attack on Downing Street (2/7/91)
Downing Street Mortar Attack The Downing Street mortar attack was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 7 February 1991. The IRA launched three homemade mortar shells at 10 Downing Street, London, the headquarters of the British government, in an attempt to assassinate Prime Minister John Major and his war cabinet, who were meeting to discuss the Gulf War. One of the 140 pound (64 kg)…
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DTIC AD509724: “Forest Fire As A Military Weapon”
DTIC AD509724: “Forest Fire As A Military Weapon” Pre-Requisite Reading: Wildfires As A Weapon: US Military Exposed.
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Motorbike Warfare
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…