The South Did Rise Again
Reconstruction as America’s First Failure in Counterinsurgency Wikicommons:Freedmen’s Schoolhouse Burns in 1866 Memphis Riot Warfare is often cited as the continuation of politics by other means, but the difference can be quite blurry. This is particularly the case in the tense period after the settlement of conventional hostilities, or in the insurgency that sometimes follows…
De-Constructing Hybrid Warfare
Hybrid war- does it even exist? (Original Article in NATO Review) The recent Russian intervention in Ukraine has generated much debate about the use and effectiveness of hybrid warfare, a type of warfare widely understood to blend conventional/unconventional, regular/irregular, and information and cyber warfare. An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a…
7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Civil War
Dear Readers, As a Lover of History, I felt it was TIME TO DISPENSE WITH THE HISTORICAL INACCURACIES. Please seek out the truth for yourselves. And just so you know, the lame-stream media and the Government are bad places to start. -HCS Staff Article By Daniel Amduri With all of the controversy surrounding the Confederate…
Military History Parallels: You Can Never Dominate from the Air Alone
Doomed: Saudi Arabia Will Fail in Yemen By Asher Orkaby As the warring Yemeni parties gather for preliminary peace talks in Geneva, Saudi Arabia continues its unrelenting bombing campaign against the tribes of the Houthi movement. For two and a half months, the air forces of the Saudi coalition have targeted military sites, homes and…
Netflix Pix: Point and Shoot
For those of you out there that don’t mind homemade movies, you might like this quirky, offbeat documentary of Matthew Van Dyke, an American College Graduate who suffers with OCD who sets out to see the world and really experience life first hand. (WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!) He buys a Video Camera, a Motorcycle and a…
How the US Army Rangers the Became Bad-Asses They are Today
By Christian Beekman During World War II, Darby’s Rangers embodied the spirit of today’s forces: Rangers lead the way. June 19, 1942, is not a familiar date to most. But members of the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment know it well; it’s the date of activation of the 1st Ranger Battalion, under the command of…
Intel Overwatch News Synopsis: 06/23/15
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3135242/Army-reveals-armoured-trucks-fitted-LASERS-blast-mines-ground-explode-stray-bombs.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Army reveals armoured trucks fitted with LASERS to blast mines out of the ground and explode stray bombs. Uses a laser to detonate bombs up to 300 meters away. Interrogator arm and manipulator claw can move 50 pounds of debris. Could be used instead of bomb disposal experts in body armour. Please do…
Putin’s Plot to Get Texas to Secede
For Moscow’s right-wingers, payback means teaming up with a band of Texas secessionists. By CASEY MICHEL Nathan Smith, who styles himself the “foreign minister” for the Texas Nationalist Movement, appeared last Spring at a far-right confab in St. Petersburg, Russia. Despite roaming around in his cowboy hat, Smith managed to keep a low-key presence at…
Studying Intelligence Tradecraft: The One Time Pad
Along with the Study of Insurgent Tactics series, I will be adding this series, which will focus on field Intelligence Skill-Sets/Tradecraft that would be practical for the Modern Guerilla to know. Since my knowledge of this is limited, I will be depending on certain friends to help me along. Thanks to Mr. A for this…