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...