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,…
Category: Warrior Poet
The Legend of Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Hoare
I remember reading Congo Mercenary while deployed many moons back. This guy was the stuff of legend.
How To Be Calm Under Pressure: 3 Secrets From A Bomb Disposal Expert
How To Be Calm Under Pressure: 3 Secrets From A Bomb Disposal Expert Some practical advice on negotiating high-stress situations. Remember: “Work the situation, don’t let it work you.” Also highly recommend the linked article Stoicism Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Mentally Strong
The Dead
‘Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses…
Why So Many Western Covert Operations Have Failed Since World War II
Shots in the Dark – Why So Many Western Covert Operations Have Failed Since WW2 A Great read both from a historical point of view and practical, Civilian Operator POV on the RELEVANCE of Guerilla Warfare in the 21st Century. You have to Understand the Lessons of History in order not to repeat the…
The Warrior Poet: Why You Should Surround Yourself With More Books Than You Will Ever Read
Why You Should Surround Yourself With More Books Than You Will Ever Read Great read on why you need to exercise that grey matter as much as you trigger finger. I gave this article for my wife to read so she can stop complaining about all my books. 🙂 Stay Alert, Stay Armed and…
Military History: How The Ghost of Tradition Inspired Ancient Military Might
Podcast #231: How the Ghosts of Tradition Inspired Ancient Military Might (click on the link above to be re-directed to source page and podcast) I have this very book in my “To Read” List so when I saw the author on this podcast I jumped. It is just under an hour, but well worth…
The Warrior Ethos
Zachary Mierva July 1, 2016 This essay was written in 2012 en route to my second deployment to Afghanistan with a reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition squadron. A family friend and Vietnam veteran recommended I keep a journal to remember my deployments. I used this journal to create “dispatches” that I sent to my family…
World War II History: When Hemmingway Stashed Bazookas In A Parisian Hotel Room
Troops marched in Rambouillet, kicking up dust just outside of Paris as the war correspondent dotted around town on assignment. Ernest Hemingway was there, ostensibly, as a reporter, not a combatant. But he may have been stretching the boundaries of press freedoms while commanding a group of French Resistance fighters and journalists to help liberate…
The Warrior Poet: Snap, Snap! (and You’re Thankful)
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…