According to X user Birth Gauge, 2025 was not the best year for American blacks and Hispanics when it came to birth rates. By the end of the third quarter 2025, the total fertility rate (that is, the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) decreased for both groups, while it actually…
Category: Urban Skill Sets
Preparing for Unrest – Vehicles
Preparing for Unrest – Vehicles It’s Riot Season again. I’m so behind the times, I still have my Venezuelan War decorations up. In all seriousness, things are heating up and people are being attacked in their just for appearing “conservative” or “looking like ICE”, whatever that means. We should up our game and prepare to…
Somalia’s Average IQ Score Meets the U.S. Standard for Intellectual Disability
Somalia’s Average IQ Score Meets the U.S. Standard for Intellectual Disability Minnesota’s Somali community has been treated for years as a political talking point rather than a population that deserves honest evaluation. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz insists the community poses no financial or public-safety burden. Democrats frame all criticism as racism. But the numbers…
Cartel Corner: Cartels Use Car Bomb, Suicide Bomber to Attack Police in Western Mexico
Cartels Use Car Bomb, Suicide Bomber to Attack Police in Western Mexico I have used the term “Criminal Insurgency” several times on this blog in the past few years and the reason for that is made perfectly clear in this article. Cartels and Cartel-Affiliated Gangs have been using the same insurgent tactics we witnessed…
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…
The Armed Citizen Corner: Criminal Mindset – Make Yourself Harder to Kill
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…
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…
Shoot & Scoot
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…
DIY Infiltration Tools: Press Pass
Via Big Country I’m planning on doing some intel-gathering possibly on Saturday. For this, as mentioned before, those who might be interested in doing the same, I suggest checking out THIS website. It’s pretty damned cool. It has a interactive GUI (graphic user interface) that allows you to modify the pass so that you can buy it as…