Combat Studies Group

WRSA provided a link to an excellent whitepaper on encryption and privacy setups. encryption-works I strongly encourage all to read it. This is some of the material that we cover in our "Groundrod" course. Looking at an early September class date - possibly in Idaho. More to follow..... (Sorry for the light posting, been busy...)

FYI.... JWR's Survivalblog site has been down for a few days......his backup server can be reached here..... http://64.92.111.122

(New site can be found here  http://combatstudiesgroup.weebly.com/index.html ) With the recent revelations pertaining to government spying on it's own citizens (does this really surprise anyone?), I wanted to offer a quick primer on regaining some of your electronic security. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but a number of things you can start doing right now. (I also offer a course on this subject that covers it in great detail.) One caveat I need to point out before we go further is this - While any and all of the following tips will offer a high level of privacy, most of them are rendered potentially useless if they are employed on the Windows or Mac operating systems. Why? Because Microsoft and Apple have entered into complicit agreements with government bodies in the form of secret backdoor access to your system and no anti-virus or malware  program will save you from it as it is a "legitimate" part of the operating system's code. Where does tha...

  (Note: I am testing out a new website at  CombatStudiesGroup.weebly  as i am hoping to abandon all things Google in the near future - feel free to check it out.) *** This is a much belated AAR for the May Gunfight Carbine and Secure Comms courses. Once again I would like to thank Matt from Liberty Handgun Training for facilitating the courses. He put in a lot of legwork to make these classes happen. We had a full class for the carbine course and everyone pushed themselves hard for 11 hours of rain drenched training. Some of the participants were former students of Mosby (http://mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com/) and had only good things to say about him. It also served to demonstrate the point that, while tactics and techniques may vary between instructors/operators, they will (or should) share the same core fundamental principals. The students were kind enough to send in some reviews, one of which is below (you can find the rest on the Reviews page).... ...

We will be having a Combat Carbine course on May 18 and a Secure Communications course on the 19th. Both courses will be sponsored by Liberty Handgun Training  and will be held in Eugene Oregon. The carbine course is almost full, but we still have open seats for the communications class. Details as follows........... Gunfight Concepts Carbine - May 18th, 8am-5pm The purpose of this course is to push the carbine shooter to the next level and help ensure that they prevail in a lethal encounter. I follow a template of enhancing the students ability to master - - Marksmanship - Manipulation - Maintenance We will examine the pros/cons of the different battle zeros and which one may suit your situation best. We will perform several drills designed to enhance your accuracy at various ranges and examine the application of the speed/accuracy paradigm. We will cover reload techniques designed to get you back in the fight faster. We will also study ...

In light of current events, I believe a little history on the Hegelian Dialectic is in order... ........................................................... "...the State 'has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State... for the right of the world spirit is above all special privileges.' " Author/historian William Shirer, quoting Georg Hegel in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959, page 144) In 1847 the London Communist League (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) used Hegel's theory of the dialectic to back up their economic theory of communism. Now, in the 21st century, Hegelian-Marxist thinking affects our entire social and political structure. The Hegelian dialectic is the framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution. If we do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are h...

"These monsters go into schools, theaters and shopping malls precisely because we emblazon them with signs telling these murderous bastards that nobody inside is capable of defending themselves.  We state in bright lights and bold text that we the "law-abiding citizens" have intentionally forfeited the ability to put down the murderous thug that seeks to take our life and those in our charge." Read all of Denninger's excellent and strongly worded article  HERE