Originally appeared on American Partisan in January 2019. Got Field Phones? -NCS Field phones are one of items that a lot of folks love to talk about but few ever really use. But the fact is that having a set around can be incredibly useful for setting up closed networks to fixed locations. Where field …
As I tell students in the the RTO and Signals Intelligence Courses, its not necessarily what can be monitored (everything has the capacity to be monitored) but rather, how your adversary can exploit it. This in turn points to the criticality of the ability to plan and act based on that plan. And often enough, …
General Alberto Bayo’s classic should be considered a must-read by anyone interested in small unit warfare and is the first post in a series on perspectives covering the last century into the present. A basic read on guerrilla warfare, “One Hundred and Fifty Questions To A Guerrilla” is a well thought out and realistic plan …
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Originally written on American Partisan back in 2018. Keep in mind, you can only fight using what you actually can keep supplied- so those Gucci calibers, while nice in theory, really fall short when you're talking in terms of supplying a larger guerrilla force. But hey, what would I know, am I right? -NCS Far …
Originally written back in 2018 on American Partisan. Mandatory reading for the RTO Course. -NCS All success begins with a competent plan. Communications is no different and is especially true when it comes to the Small Unit. The first thing to go bad on a patrol is commo; in my experience it’s also more often …
This article originally appeared on American Partisan and is even more relevant today than when I wrote it back in June. -NCS The world is looking pretty rough. And with it, many are waking up to the reality of their situation. There’s gonna be a lot more time spent on the shooting range than the …
From the Archives, 2014 Ambi= (Ambidextrous): The ability to use the right and left hands EQUALLY well. Being a military history buff, I really enjoy studying the progression/evolution of tactics and weaponry in warfare through the years. One of the most applicable of these “progressions” that pertains to the CO specifically has been the development …
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Originally appeared over at The Tactical Hermit. Later re-posted on American Partisan. -NCS I get asked a TON of questions about ammo, with the most popular question being: “What is the best TYPE of ammo to use in an AK for self-defense?” My general response is typically “Whatever you have loaded at the time is …
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Growing up, nearly everyone I knew hunted. Whether it was white tail, rabbits, dove, pheasant, and even hogs back when we had them in central NC. And in all those years, you had three general types of boots- Cowboy boots for dressing up, work boots in the field, and hunting boots in the Fall- and …
So we’re finding ourselves once more with a whole lotta new gun owners. And that evil black rifle-the AR-15- won’t stay on the shelves long enough to pick up any dust. While having one and knowing how to use one are two very different things, knowing how to use one and actually knowing how to …
