Insurgency Lessons Learned from the “Big Fella”

May 11, 2022 by The Tactical Hermit in Another Reason to Be Armed, Armed Citizen Corner, Asymmetrical Warfare, Citizen Action Groups, Civilian Operator 101, Guerilla Warfare, Guerilla Warfare History, Information Warfare, Intelligence Tradecraft, IRA, Know your History, Learning from Terrorist Tactics, Military Intelligence History, Urban Skill Sets, Urban Warfare, WRSA and tagged Asymmetrical Warfare, Future Warfare, Guerilla Warfare History, Insurgent Warfare, IRA, Irish Republican Army, Michael Collins

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De Oppresso Terminare (To Terminate the Oppressed)?

May 10, 2022 by The Tactical Hermit in American History, American History 101, American Partisan, Another Reason to Be Armed, Armed Citizen Corner, Armed Citizen Corner Video, Government Gangsters, Guerilla Warfare, Guerilla Warfare History, Military History, Practical Skill Sets, Practical Solutions to Serious Problems, Prepping, Prepping 101, Real World Threats, Reality Check, Small unit Tactics, Social Ills, Social Justice Warriors, Socialism Sucks, Soviet History, Soviet Military history, Studies in Warfare, Survival, Tradecraft, Training, Training Tips, Violent Left, When Men Were Men, WOKE Zombies, WRSA and tagged American Partisan, Asymmetrical Warfare, Domestic Insurgency, Government Gangsters, Guerilla Warfare History, Jerry Shriver, MAC-V-SOG, Military History, Prepping, Prepping 101

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De Oppresso Terminare (To Terminate the Oppressed)?

He could have used examples like “Antifa”, “BLM” (“Burn, Loot, Murder” cuz they earned that moniker), “Crips”, “Bloods”, “Murder Inc.”, or even the Damned Al-Qaeda turd-burglers (And yes, the goats in that part of the world are always scared). But no, who did he disrespect? The two groups that probably have the highest percentage of “Pro God”, “Pro Morality”, “Pro-Law”, “Pro-Constitution”, “Law Abiding”, “Tax Payin’”, and “Rule Followin’” (to the point of mask wearin’ ridiculousness) People in the Nation, as demographics go. So no, this Imbecile doesn’t get a pass. As I said, from all the indicators I’ve seen, this is more of a norm in the SOF Community, than not, and that is tragic and sad.

Preppers were the original Americans, till people felt safe and comfortable, then they got fat, happy and stopped planning ahead and preparing for bad times. It has had to be relearned through the last couple centuries, but for the most part, that’s as “American” a trait as you can get, from a practical living standpoint.

Time is getting short.

Harden your hearts, toughen your bodies, and steel your minds.

Remember Jerry Shriver

Video of Booby Traps Used by Viet Cong in Vietnam War Horrifies Internet

January 11, 2022 by The Tactical Hermit in American History, American History 101, Asymmetrical Warfare, Guerilla Warfare, Guerilla Warfare History, Historical Study, History Corrected, Military History, Vietnam War, Warfare, Warrior Tech and tagged Booby-Traps, Guerilla Warfare History, Military History, Vietnam War

Video of Booby Traps Used by Viet Cong in Vietnam War Horrifies Internet

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The Malayan Emergency, and what it can teach us about today’s American Emergency

December 5, 2021 by The Tactical Hermit in Another Reason to Be Armed, Anti-Socialist, Armed Citizen Corner, Asymmetrical Warfare, Brush-Up On Your History, Civilian Operator 101, Cold War Files, Cold War History, Communism, Communism Sucks, Counter-Insurgency, Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism 101, Counterintelligence, Examining GW Tactics, Examining Terrorist Tactics, Fourth Gen Warfare, Future Warfare, Guerilla Warfare, Guerilla Warfare History, Historical Study, History Corrected, History Myths, History of Terrorism, History Remembered, History Roundup, Hybrid Warfare, Know your History, Learning from Terrorist Tactics, Marxism, Military History, Military Intelligence History, Political Warfare, Politics, Reference Materials, Studies in Warfare, Tales from the Battlefield, Urban Skill Sets, Urban Warfare, Warfare and tagged 4GW, COIN Doctrine, Cold War Files, Counter-Insurgency warfare, Defeating Communism, Guerilla Warfare History, Hybrid Warfare, The Savage Wars of Peace, War of the Running Dogs

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The Malayan Emergency, and what it can Teach us about today’s American Emergency

A large part of current U.S. COIN doctrine (Counter-Insurgency) that was re-vamped and rolled out around 2006 to ground pounders in Iraq and A-Stan is based upon the lessons learned by the British during the Malayan Emergency. Think Tankers like David Kilcullen wrote extensively on it in books like The Accidental Guerilla and Out of the Mountains. It would do the Armed Citizen justice to study up on these TTP going forward for obvious reasons!

Additonal Worth While Reading:

The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot
Invisible Armies by Max Boot

(Please Note these books were written by the author before he became a spineless liberal).

Because Now It’s Personal: Causes That Produce The Guerrilla

November 12, 2021 by The Tactical Hermit in Another Reason to Be Armed, Armed Citizen Corner, Asymmetrical Warfare, Guerilla Warfare, Guerilla Warfare History, Historical Study, History of the Civil War, History Remembered, History Roundup, WRSA and tagged Armed Citizen Corner, Guerilla Warfare History, History of the Civil War, Know your History, WRSA

Because Now It’s Personal: Causes That Produce The Guerrilla

Most of the men who fought with William Quantrill didn’t own slaves. They were just Missouri farm boys who wanted to be left alone, raise families and run farms of their own. What caused them to turn into the so called “bloodthirsty savages” they later became? Join with the fictional Lydia Warner Rowe as she determines to answer that very same question two years after the end of the War Between the States.

(From the journal of Lydia Warner Rowe)