I’ve had a lot of questions concerning the AK platform since the last several articles I’ve written about it, and a lot of them revolve around modernizing the weapon. None of this is really anything new or revolutionary. in fact, the couple of mods I’m going to discuss here have been around for a looong …
This originally appeared on American Partisan just after the election. And while the Senatorial race in NC has been called in favor of Tillis since this was written, the balance of the Senate still lay in the hands of the State of Georgia and thus the Dominion voting machines which are ostensibly corrupt by anyone's …
Find it on Podbean! I discuss the Revolver article posted on American Partisan from October detailing the social media mapping programs that are up and running now, originally designed to map insurgencies and managed by retired General and Biden supporter, Stanley McChrystal. Brushbeater Training Calendar Brushbeater Amazon Affiliate Page American Partisan Whitey Morgan and the …
Continue reading Radio Contra Episode 35: Google, Jigsaw and DARPA Social Network Mapping
I was sorting through some old stuff cleaning out a building- an odd collection of crap, mostly junk, from a stack of toughboxes holding my old gear from sometime in between deployments to the middle east. Its crazy just how much junk one bubba can collect, how you instantly are reminded of certain thoughts and …
Amazon's Cyber Monday deals are pretty decent from what little bit I've seen, but the Baofeng DM-1701 is currently on a lightning deal for 24% off- get it while they're there. This is one of the best options I've found for small team communications and one of the radios I suggest having in the RTO …
(Link to Podbean) I discuss the General Flynn and McInerney interview with WVW, discuss questions from a reader regarding social media, photo and phone digital media, and cover how phones are tracked. Brushbeater Training Schedule Brushbeater Amazon Affiliate Page Mission Darkness EMP Bag American Partisan The Marlboro Men Bandcamp page
Since I got started in all of this, WAY back when (over a decade ago), a perennial need I looked for was electronic encrypted units for a small team- not unlike what we had in the MBITR at the time- and the search by and large turned up either way more expensive than it was …
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, …
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 …
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