By Hammerhead I am a big believer in having your firearms and self-defense training reflect the real-world threats that wait outside your comfort zone. When you look at the events in Paris, (Charlie Hebdo in January and the most recent attack in November) combined with the attack on the Police Officer in Philadelphia last week…
Texas News: The Agenda to “Re-Brand” and/or Do Away With Confederate History Continues
Once again we see History being stamped out in the name of “Political Correctness”. It amazes me how politicians up and down the chain on the Houston School board and in The City of Houston are more concerned with a School Name rather than a School’s performance record and if their students are actually LITERATE….
Military History: What the 173rd Airborne Looked Like Two Centuries Ago
Historic reoccurrence is a controversial concept. However, events, especially in military history, often take place in similar sites. The reason for this phenomenon is simple. Throughout centuries logistics, weaponry and technology change, but terrain and strategic points continue to shape military campaigns. Consequently, soldiers’ accounts share similarities in impressions, discomforts and adventures, even if they happen…
Wingate’s Way: Leadership Lessons from Britain’s Maverick General
I highly recommend Anglin’s book Orde Wingate: Unconventional Warrior for those of you who have an interest in learning about Counter-Insurgency Warfare and it’s timeless principles.-SF “Orde Wingate’s experiences from World War Two offer lessons for 21st Century military planners, particularly in the areas of counter-insurgency, covert and special operations and proxy wars.” By Dr. Simon Anglin MAJOR GENERAL Orde…
Killing Anwar: Targeting Jihadi Propagandist is Only Part of the Solution
Like dozens of others, the husband and wife team who shot up a San Bernardino community center were inspired by U.S. born al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in Yemen by a drone strike in September 2011. The San Bernardino shooting should serve as a reminder that killing propagandists can be an important tactical…
Texas News: Refugee Indicted on plot to bomb Houston Malls
This article speaks VOLUMES about the current immigration policies of this administration; I mean the PROOF is in the Pudding as they say, or in this case, in a homemade bomb.-SF A Muslim refugee was denied bail Wednesday in a Houston federal courtroom for plotting to bomb two local malls and pledging allegiance to ISIS….
Attkisson: ‘Overwhelming Body of Evidence’ Benghazi Rescue Teams Turned Back
I have followed this Miscarriage of Justice since it happened..this is sickening. I said it once and I will keep saying it: The people responsible for this should be tried for TREASON and Shot. What has America become that your own people..soldiers, diplomats, are discarded like trash?? I hope this leads to some indictments but…
Netflix Pix: Foreign World War Two Dramas
As you all know, I am a amateur World War Two Historian and am always on the lookout for new movies or documentaries. Here are three movies I came across recently; they are all foreign films with subtitles, but again I ask you: DO NOT let that run you off, they are really well…
WWII History: Uncovering Holocaust Perpetrators Where Few Have Looked
Muslim Nazis, women in the SS, and Dutch ‘bounty hunters’ are coming out of the archival closet, even as fewer Shoah eyewitnesses remain alive to testify BOSTON — With new access to archives and other primary sources, historians are supplanting archetypal images of Aryan Nazi men as the Holocaust’s sole perpetrators. Previously obscured perpetrator “sub-groups”…
Cartel Corner #49: El Chapo in the Same Prison!? Same Song, Same Dance….
El Chapo Could Soon Be Back in the Same Cell He Escaped From Last Time Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán woke up this morning for the fifth time since his recapture last Friday in the maximum-security Altiplano prison — the same prison the drug lord escaped from in July 2015. Mexico’s interior minister has said he…