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You’re twenty-three years old. You’re a lowly Private First Class with less than two years in the Army. You’ve been in Iraq eight months. Your platoon is overextended, barely able to cover all the patrols and static posts you’ve been assigned. Extra missions take what...
This is a troubling, miserable, depressing, superb book. Arkady Babchenko gives one of the few first-person accounts of the Chechen Wars: One Soldier’s War.
Full Auto Philosophers: Texas Machine Gun & Ordnance Chris Hernandez “You know this is completely pointless, right? There’s no practical reason to build a pipe bomb. We just do it because it’s fun.” I was standing beside Sean Lindley, CEO of Texas Machine Gun...
Today’s Your Weekend Read is a graphic novel about Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone between the years of 1995-96. It’s based on a true story.
Your Weekend Read: Line in the Valley, the second novel by “Mad Duo Chris” Hernandez is now available in hard copy. That’s how we spent last weekend. We can, in good conscience, recommend you do the same this weekend. It’s a gritty read.
The "Fall of Kabul" colloquially refers to the capture of the city of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on 15 August 2021 and, only slightly tangentially, the ensuing debacle at Kabul Intl Airport. While capture might be something of a misnomer to purists, there can be...
For those who believe going to prison is better than being dead, let me introduce you to the prison system. For nearly 29 years, I worked in a state correctional system. But I’ll tell you what… If you can get away without using any physical force, do that. In no way, shape, or form do you want to go to prison. It’s worse than you can possibly imagine.
I’ve spent a lot of time sitting in unmarked cars watching people and places. With the long hours in Surveillance Vehicles (SVs), I’ve learned there are some unwritten rules…well unwritten until now. So here you go…my Ten, make that ELEVEN Commandments for Surveillance from a Vehicle.
It sounds counter-intuitive, we know, but Jussie Smollet actually did us a solid with his recent, bogus claims of a horrific racial attack. Here’s how.
Aprill Risk Consulting. Look 'em up. Follow 'em. Read what they have to say. We're often asked what other places, sites, bloggers, trainers, and the like we follow. Aprill Risk is one of them. Read on and we'll explain why. William Aprill of...
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