I wanted to draw attention to the HEAT shootout scene because it is excellent, and demonstrates, in a Hollywood way, some break contact drills, initially from a vehicle, then dismounted. HEAT Shootout Scene (This is not the best quality YouTube example, but the good one appears to have been taken down) It a great scene, there is […]

I am posting this video because it illustrates a lot of points. I remember this happening back when I was working in Baghdad, and I saw the after action review at the time. My intent is not to criticize the actions of the team, but to make constructive comments. Ambush Video Now, I will state […]

Combat Studies Group: The Three Man Team: Combat effectiveness – a view from the outside in Years ago while still in uniform, I was selected to take part in a large training…

It seems like a good interest/history topic to cover some first hand experiences of caches and search procedures in counter terrorist operations. It s a little at variance to what we have mainly been used to since 9/11 in terms of the ‘GWOT’. During my time in the British Army I spent a deal of […]

In the interest of fairness I want to put it out there that I don’t recommend that you buy both Contact and Rapid Fire (unless you really want to…..)  The reason is that they are not designed as sequels, but are simply aimed at different audiences. Thus, there is an amount of material, the main […]

The Arctic Patriot: Further Thoughts: I wanted to say something I left out of this post from yesterday. I talked about an op in that post, and used it as an example of using th… I Like it. To add: however doctrinal and clever you get at your strategic/operational level, when it comes down to […]

I have been a soldier in some form all my adult life.  It doesn’t make me the baddest SOB in the valley, far from it and I make no claim to it, but I have some knowledge that I have a desire to pass on to others. More recently, I have got into prepping for the […]

This is an extract of some comments I made on a forum and the follow up. The background is that the envisaged scenario is more family survival in a WROL SHTF situation, rather than resistance operations against enemies ‘foreign or domestic’. See my earlier post on ‘tactical overnighting in the woods’ for a more operational […]

I was just reading the article by Mosby “Bayonets, Bloodshed, and that Bastard, Reality…..”:Mosby on Bayonet Fighting HereI really enjoyed it, good article. A link to the story of the recent British Army bayonet charge in Helmand Province is here:Telegraph Article on the Recent British Bayonet ChargeMosby mentions: “If bayonet training was taught that way, and […]

Many of you will have heard of the phrase ‘crawl, walk, run’ where it concerns training. It is very true, and it is important to get the solid building blocks of your training in place, whether as an individual and then as a team, before you try and move on to more complex drills. I […]