‘Paddy’ Mayne: An Irish Lion Lieutenant-Colonel ‘Paddy’ Mayne is a legendary figure in the history of the Special Forces. A celebrated sportsman with a turbulent character, he played a vital role in the early successes of the Special Air Service (SAS), becoming one of its most important commanders. One of seven siblings, Robert Blair…
Category: Warfare
Vehicle Run Down Attacks
Vehicle Run Down Attacks Great Collection of articles on how the Armed Citizen tackles Vehicle Borne Terror Attacks. I suggest downloading all of these to a flash drive as a Training Resource. Prepare Accordingly.
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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…
Know Your Real WW2 History: The War in the Pacific
Via: War Views Military History Blog Pacific War 1 – Preliminary Moves Road to the Pacific War Beginning of the war in the Pacific came unexpectedly, at least for some people. Attention was on Europe, where war had been raging for two years. Poland had been invaded by Germany and USSR in September…
Asymmetrical Warfare and 4GW: How Militia Groups Are America’s Domestic Viet Cong
*From the Archives Asymmetrical Warfare and 4GW: How Militia Groups are America’s Domestic Viet Cong Civil War 2 appears to be the new buzzword among both sides of the brewing conflict in the US, no longer considered some fringe notion. The Right and the Left find themselves at an impasse, and its rapidly…
Essential Reading Trifecta
https://archive.org/details/total-resistance-swiss-army-guide-to-guerrilla-warfare-paladin-press_202303 https://archive.org/details/war-of-the-flea-the-classic-study-of-guerrilla-warfare-robert-taber https://archive.org/details/FryTheBrainTheArtOfUrbanSniping **Before you shell out your precious hard earned shekels for ANY book, ALWAYS check the Internet Archive for possible FREE Download options.**
Know Your Guerilla Warfare History: The Boer War
Boer War Origins The origins of the Boer War lay in Britain’s desire to unite, or confederate, the British South African territories of the Cape Colony and Natal with the Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (also known as the Transvaal). The Boers, Afrikaans-speaking farmers, wanted to maintain their…
Small-Unit Tactics: The Flying Column
Ireland’s Wars: Flying Columns The popular memory of the Irish War of Independence, at least if you happen to be Irish, often revolves around the image of the IRA “flying column”. For a large number of people, those two words indicates a very particular type of unit: A sort of mobile platoon that lived and…
Guerilla Warfare History: Say Nothing
Say Nothing This 9 Episode TV series about the IRA and the Troubles which is based on the Book by the same name is definitely worth a watch. The writing in both the book and TV series is bare bones without a lot of fluff and cuts to the chase about what 20th century…