Mat! The BBC Guide to Russian Swearing
Mat! The BBC Guide to Russian Swearing Tolstoy. Dostoyevsky. Pushkin. Chekhov. Gogol. Solzhenitsyn. When somebody talks about Russian...
Review: The Kraken Roll
Review: The Kraken Roll Brian Montgomery Part of life on the road - and just life in general now - is owning, and charging, eleventy-five different...
B.E. Meyers & CO: Our Doubts Are Traitors – Brad Meyers and the Optics of Optimism
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure Trust us....
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Just what is a "Pew Professional"?
So we're pow-wowing with our friend Mat the other day and he's in a Pew Professional shirt from Article 15 Clothing. (Mat's the guy behind the "How to be an Operator" and "How to Work Out Like an Operator" videos you've probably seen.) The conversation goes quickly...
Service, Trust, and the Black Rifle
Service, Trust, and the black rifle...a few words from Slim. The great thing about the military is that at the age of 18, they trust you with machine guns, rocket launchers, grenades, hell - even a fucking tank. By the time you leave the service, regardless if if it...
The Needs Of Warriors: One Marine’s Take on a Broken System
The Needs of Warriors: Mental Stability in the U.S. Marines. We're going to give one of our friends a soapbox this morning. We are publishing a paper he wrote while pursuing is degree. Take a look. Note: for those of you who might object to the moto parts, please look...
Sochi SITREP 6: Lessons Learned
The Olympics have ended - thankfully nothing untoward happened (that we're aware of). Whether that was because Russian CT and security efforts were effective, because the Jihadis are busy elsewhere or a combination of those two things. We may never know. ...
Victory First – we don’t say "Expert" lightly
Today we bring you a few words from Mad Duo Nate about a class on gunfighting - gunfighting strictly from positions of concealment, courtesy of Victory First. Perhaps this will help you undersand why we believe Matt to be one of the finest, most approachable (and...
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Monday Morning Edge – The Artificum Solis “Clever Girl”
You know what's on the short list of things that will grab my attention? A veritable orgre of a man carrying a sword around in a crowd. (Knuckledraggers: veritable) Now, if you're into that kind of stuff you can typically find a host of dudes like that at a local...
Leadership in the Shadows (with Kyle Lamb)
Leadership in the Shadows is the name of Kyle Lamb's forthcoming new book. If you've been following us at all over the last couple of years, you know the Mad Duo are big admirers of Lamb. We've trained with him (not just our minions, but us), drunk lemonade with him...
Your Weekend Read – Lest We Forget
Lest We Forget is a book by Leo Jenkins, an Army Ranger medic from 3/75. It shows not just what it takes to become a medic for SOF forces during a time of war, but what happens once you do – including pictures and first-person accounts from the search and rescue operation after Operation Redwings.
PTSD, Reading Comprehension and the Great American Love of Victimhood
Remember how Mad Duo Chris stirred everyone up with his post about PTSD, and how the fakers and bullshitters make it harder on those who really have it? Some people agreed, some disagreed, some engaged in intelligent discussion (a Good Thing), some acted like he'd...
Pushing Outside Your Comfort Zone
When you train, do you do it on your own, or do you bring some friendly rivalry into it? Do you train outside your comfort zone? Are you willing to set ego aside and ask for help where you need it? COWAN! thinks that's just the thing to do, as long as the shooters...
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