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Assessing the Effects of Fires

Posted on 29 December 202329 December 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Low Light Tactics for the Regular Person

Posted on 15 December 202315 December 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Low Light Tactics for the Regular Person   Imagine living 300 years ago; darkness was an uncontrollable part of your existence. Barring a lantern, a candle, or the light of the moon, once the sun set, so did your ability to see. Flash forward to the present day world; light is a permanent part of…

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A Boer’s View of the Crisis in South Africa

Posted on 9 December 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

A Boer’s View of the Crisis in South Africa   What are things like in South Africa? What is it like to go from being one of the few successful countries in the Dark Continent to a country collapsing more and more by the day while crime rages out of control, calls for genocide of…

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Know Your Guerilla Warfare History: Boers, Beans, Bullets and Bear Soup

Posted on 1 November 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Boers, Beans, Bullets, and Bear Soup – Parts  1 & 2   Nifty two part series on the history, tactics and weapons of the Boers. Remember: The most Dangerous thing in the world is a Disciplined, Motivated and Well Trained Rifleman, so get out there and TRAIN!    

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Know Your Military Psy-Op History: Operation Wandering Soul

Posted on 17 September 202317 September 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

The Ghostly Legacies of America’s War in Vietnam   During the Vietnam War, as Viet Cong soldiers tried to sleep in the jungle at night, they sometimes heard an anguished, disembodied voice shrieking at them from the afterlife. The men heard the tormented, grief-stricken cries of a deceased comrade cautioning them against the futility of…

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Know Your WW2 History: Kursk – The Battle that Changed Everything

Posted on 1 September 20231 September 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Kursk: The Battle that Changed Everything   It is 75 years since the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history. More than 3,000,000 men and 8,000 tanks met, 400 miles south of Moscow. Yet today, once again, German tanks are facing Russian tanks, just a few hundred miles from the site of that…

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Fast and Furious: The Philosophy and Mechanics of the Blitzkrieg Tactic

Posted on 25 August 202325 August 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Fast and Furious: The Philosophy and Mechanics of the Blitzkrieg Tactic   It’s the dawn of World War II, and the old ways of fighting aren’t cutting it anymore. Soldiers huddled in trenches, days turning into weeks with little progress—it’s a stalemate that no one wants to repeat. Enter the Blitzkrieg tactic, a plan that’s…

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Chaos Reigns: Modern Warfare in the West

Posted on 21 August 202320 August 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Via: The Patrol Base Archives       Disgusted by the latest news, I pushed myself back from my computer desk. “The country is going to Hell,” I declared to no one. It seemed like America was pulling herself apart. In this cold Civil War, the schism isn’t as evident as the Mason-Dixon line was. Instead,…

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The Surveillance State: Dronesense – A Spectrum Scanning Jammer and Controller for Drones

Posted on 10 August 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

H/T WRSA     Dronesense: A Limesdr Based Drone Detector and Jammer   Over on the LimeSDR CrowdSupply blog, Ogün Levent has submitted a short article about his “Dronesense” project. Dronsense is a spectrum-scanning and jamming system based on the LimeSDR. The LimeSDR is a US$299 12-bit TX/RX capable SDR that can tune between 100 kHz –…

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Know Your WW2 Weapons: The German Panzerfaust

Posted on 23 June 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Panzerfaust — The Story of Germany’s “Tank Fist”   Panzerfaust literally translates to “tank fist,” and it was one of several desperation weapons fielded by the Germans in the closing months of World War II to blunt the Soviet juggernaut and the increasing threats on the Western Front. First developed in 1942, as Germany’s fortunes…

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