In this day and age, cars figure prominently in all aspects of life in America and that includes criminal activities. Whether in use by the criminal, the intended victim or just parked on the street, cars will be around most shooting incidents outside and the prudent practitioner of armed self-defense would do well to recognize this fact and take s...
August 16th was Primary Election Day in Wyoming. From our perspective, of the imminent crises facing the state, the nation, and the world, we draw several conclusions. For readers who are not residents of Wyoming, the political reality here, broadly drawn, is this. The state is overwhelmingly Republican. Most elective state and local offices are de...
Many people, when they first dip their toe into the world of prepping, find themselves particularly attracted to one or two subjects and run with those for a good while before branching out. It is all too easy to find food preservation and storage fascinating and all engrossing. The same with planting a garden or getting your first chickens. Ditto ...
Sitting in one of my undergraduate classes at a much later stage in life than my fellow students, I was confused when the professor explained the tests we would take during this semester. What was an open book test? A young lady sitting next to me explained "It's a test you can use your text book for…" I was still confused, "What do you use the tex...
A Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is the final step in a Security Analysis, based on information developed in all the earlier stages (Site Survey, Area Study, Threat Assessment, and External Assets Evaluation). It requires honest qualitative evaluation of strengths and weaknesses against various threats, from which we identify upgrades worth pursuing...
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." - Winston Churchill With the tearing down of statues and the "cancelling" of books, tv shows, monuments and music, the unhinged Left has fully begun to rewrite history and create a disingenuous record of the past. They are emboldened by our continued silence and willingnes...
This is difficult to write, as it may be overcome by events before it is ever read. Si vis pacem, para bellum. The increasing pain and downside potential of what started as a limited, regional war in Ukraine between a second and a third-rate power include, as we've previously discussed: The backfiring Western economic sanctions against Russia;Massi...
There is a scene in the movie The Bourne Identity where actor Matt Damon reels off a bunch of detailed facts about people sitting in a restaurant to the female lead actress ("our waitress is left handed", "the guy at the bar weighs 215 pounds and knows how to handle himself etc). In another restaurant movie scene, actor Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock...
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there ar...
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." ~Bertrand Russell We are a nation divided. One side recognizes the individual's rights and wants to be left alone adopting a live and let live attitude, the other side recognizes only the group and demands you become part ...
When we started writing on the theme of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, we intended to address only the first three: War, Pestilence, and Famine. What is to be said concerning the fourth: Death? But we've reconsidered, because there is a lot to be said about a perverse ideology that seems more widespread than any of us imagined when it first a...
A Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is the final step in a Security Analysis, based on information developed in all the earlier stages (Site Survey, Area Study, Threat Assessment, and External Assets Evaluation). It requires honest qualitative evaluation of strengths and weaknesses against various threats, from which we identify upgrades worth pursuing...
In many ways the current situation is deteriorating quickly. We can sense the whiffs of chaos on the horizon and each new day seems to bring a yet another data point. It can be difficult, if not impossible, to keep up with everything that is happening. And it is all too easy to be overwhelmed or, equally, distracted by one crazy story after another...
Much like the Rules for Gunfighting, here is a tongue in cheek list applying to the wider discipline of combat. It contains plenty of food for thought and some piercing insights for the battlefield. Talk to some outside the wire combat vets and see what they think. Ask them to teach you more, become their student. Not because you are going to march...
A Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is the final step in a Security Analysis, based on information developed in all the earlier stages (Site Survey, Area Study, Threat Assessment, and External Assets Evaluation). It requires honest qualitative evaluation of strengths and weaknesses against various threats, from which we identify upgrades worth pursuing...
Our main thrust is to teach you to be surveillance Aware such that you have the ability to spot untoward interest targeting you in many circumstances. In coming articles we will have much to say about creating Surveillance Detection Routes (SDR) as part of your Anti-Surveillance drills and even Counter Surveillance possibilities. We will talk about...
Recent SCOTUS decisions have boosted morale among liberty-conscious conservatives, but the Empire aways strikes back. Let's consider what these events mean, and what must be done to solidify resistance and exploit success. Donald Trump, in the most lasting achievement of his presidency, left us with a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme...
Hunger is common in the less-developed world, and famine is never more than a crisis or two away. For a century and a half, it has seemed remote and unlikely to most people in the developed world, but it demands our attention now. We've previously spoken of famine as an eventual consequence of demographic and technological trends. Now we rep...
The idea that there are rules when you are fighting for your life, the lives of others or your way of life is as silly as wanting such a fight to be fair. The Olympic games, the boxing ring and the football pitch may be modern day surrogates for conflict, dressed up in civilized rules, traditions and pomp. But you will have failed miserably and are...
There is an old line about somebody who has nothing left has nothing left to lose. The idea being that someone who is pushed and pushed, punished and penalized, stripped of everything they care about and loses it all finally becomes extremely dangerous and willing to do whatever it takes to fight back and take on their oppressor. While there is som...
