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Cold War Files: After-Action-Report (AAR) of a Rhodesian Ambush

Posted on 2 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Imagine initiating an ambush with a 40 mike-mike training round. That would be a Bad Thing. This ambush, as remembered by our friend and former Rhodie troopie Nick Bliksem, is just about as bad (but not quite). This was during the “Second Chimurenga” period of the Rhodesian Bush War, back when Jimmy Carter was POTUS,…

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Military Defense News: After Benghazi, USMC Marks New Approach to Embassy Security in Africa

Posted on 31 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Close to the third anniversary of the infamous Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a small detachment of Marines descended on the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, Mali, on the other side of the African continent. The little-publicized 48-hour operation took about 200 Marines attached to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground…

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World War Two History: U.S. Tank Destroyer Tactics in WW2

Posted on 30 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Rules Of Innovation (10): Don’t Build Your Doctrine On Incorrect Lessons Drawn From Poorly Researched And Designed Exercises That’s the cautionary lesson of the tank destroyer, which was meant to be a relatively inexpensive, light, mobile weapon to counter German tanks. It became one of the most famous failed innovations in U.S. military history. In exercises the…

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Cold War Files: JFK’s Plan to Invade Cuba with Airborne and Marines

Posted on 30 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Over the weekend I was looking through some handwritten notes in the papers of Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, placed on-line by the National Defense University. The document is undated and unsigned. The NDU catalog lists it as created by Lemnitzer, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff early in the JFK era, until Kennedy…

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The Mandalorian Ballistic Armor – From Heckler & Koch And AR500

Posted on 30 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Yes, it’s real. Yes, it’s made of real ballistic material. It’s officially called the Galtac Project. Starwars and Bobba Fett fanboys just got intergalactic wood. An Artist by the… Source: The Mandalorian Ballistic Armor – From Heckler & Koch And AR500

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Crusader Corner: Syria’s Next Generation of Fighters

Posted on 29 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

This is a Vice News Documentary that shows how Families are fighting BOTH the Assad Regime and ISIS.

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Military Defense News: “Train and Equip” Program in Syria = Full Metal Retard, Part Deux

Posted on 29 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

When you start reading this, you will begin shaking your head in disbelief. When you have finished reading this, you will be looking for a bottle of advil because your head will be pounding.-SF It would be difficult to find a program that better exemplifies the word “failure” than the Pentagon’s “train and equip” effort…

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Military Defense News: Russian T-90 Tank vs American TOW Missile…T-90 Can Take A Lickin’ But Keep on Tickin’

Posted on 28 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

For all the videos coming out of the Syrian civil war, a one minute, 31-second clip of a U.S.-made TOW missile slamming into a T-90 tank got more attention than most. In the video uploaded in February, Russia’s most advanced operational battle tank met one of the United States’ main tank killers on the battlefield….

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Military Defense News: South Korea’s Liquid Body Armor Scandal

Posted on 27 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Had the military not stopped this shady deal, 300,000 troops would have received faulty vests In 2007, the South Korean military became seduced by liquid armor, a new technology which promised to save soldiers from North Korean bullets. In theory, the experimental armor could even block armor-penetrating rounds from the AK-47. But in 2011, South…

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The Warrior Poet: Snap, Snap! (and You’re Thankful)

Posted on 27 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

By Rob Sanders When you’re cold and alone On the dark side of night, Your lying on rocks Shivering – cold or fright? The mortars are booming across the valley below, And you’re thankful.   Snap Snap as rounds whizz past. Snap snap as rounds pass close. Crack crack the rounds start on rock. You…

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