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The Armed Citizen Corner: Criminal Mindset – Make Yourself Harder to Kill

Posted on 4 October 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

Criminal Mindset – Make Yourself Harder to Kill   It might be cheesy to open an article up with a quote from Sun Tzu’s Art of War, but it applies so well; if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Today we are going to talk about…

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Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: Close with the Enemy

Posted on 26 September 202526 September 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off

Posted on 25 September 202525 September 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Resource Library: Seven Pillars of Small War Power

Posted on 17 September 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Young Men, Political Violence is Your Obligation

Posted on 15 September 202515 September 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Shoot & Scoot

Posted on 3 September 20253 September 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

  Lessons: Windows and Doors “Frame” you as a target, AVOID standing in them. If you must shoot out of a window or door, lower your profile. OODA Loop 101: Never Stay in one place too long in a gunfight; ‘Shoot and Scoot’ or ‘Get off the X’ and force your enemy to re-calibrate. Success…

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Verifying People and Identifying Psychopaths

Posted on 23 August 202523 August 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

Verifying People and Identifying Psychopaths   WARNING, THESE PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS! Secrets Revealed – A long time overdue. I have lived in the world of Law Enforcement and Special Military Operations for decades. I am astounded at the number of frauds around that pose as everything from Secret Service Agents to Navy SEALs. PHONIES! In any…

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Armed Citizen Corner: Shotguns vs. Drones – A Clay Shooter’s Guide to Defeating Enemy Swarms

Posted on 2 August 20252 August 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

Shotguns vs. Drones: A Clay Shooter’s Guide to Defeating Enemy Swarms   In the escalating drone wars, where fiber optic and First-Person View (FPV) drones threaten soldiers and civilians alike, one man is turning the art of clay shooting into a battlefield advantage. Lieutenant Marco Angelelli, an Italian Air Force reserve officer and Italian Clay…

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Welcome to 5GW & Surveillance Capitalism

Posted on 20 July 202520 July 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

    I would also recommend watching the full length podcast of Eric Prince on Tucker Carlson,  Ryan Montgomery on The Shawn Ryan Show  and Bryce Case Jr. on The Shawn Ryan Show.    

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Armed Citizen Corner: Battle Belt Construction

Posted on 16 July 202516 July 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

Complete Guide on Setting Up Your Battle Belt   Today we’re focusing on the battle belt, a concept that’s evolved a bit over the years. Up front, the “ideal” battle belt setup varies from person to person. There is no single best way to configure your belt. That’s both a blessing and a curse, because it…

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