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While serving with the Israeli Defense Forces, I learned some hard lessons about close-quarters combat.

The Israeli Defense Forces are one of the very few modern and technologically advanced organizations out there who have been behind when it comes to combat clothing and camouflage patterns. The primary reason is likely the cost associated with the changes but also with how camouflage or anything concealment is perceived. For starters, we used […]

After a long day of rumors and anticipation in Israel, at 2000 hours local time Prime Minister Netanyahu made appearance at the Kirya, a governmental district in Tel Aviv. At first the speech was carried out in Hebrew, and shortly afterwards in English. According to Netanyahu, in recent weeks Israel has achieved its greatest intelligence […]

A compressed environment is perhaps one of the most dangerous and relentless setting you can deal with in CQB. It can be inside of a car, suburban terrain, a corridor or a room – the principle is simple, a tight environment without many possibilities and a quick cause-effect relationship. The main issue with compressed environments […]

“Why do you keep these tactics so simple?” That’s a question I get sometimes by thoughtful students in my classes. There is a moment in life where you realize that all those paths you created in that dense forest of problems in your head might not be accessible when you venture into the dark. Whether […]

With the recent horrible school shooting in Parkland, Fla. that has left 17 people dead, the never-ending debate of gun control has once again surfaced. What particularly caught my attention was the comparisons to the Israeli gun mentality, and how schools handle security. With that said, many of these comparisons are simply unsound. Since I grew up […]

The Israeli Airstrike on Saturday, Jan. 13, managed to successfully compromise what we in the IDF describe as an “offensive” or “terror” tunnel, since it is often being used to deploy small units behind enemy lines, or to pack the tunnel with explosives and blow it up below FOBs. This happened in 2004 when a […]

October the 17th, 1977,  It is five minutes past midnight, Ulrich Wegener, known amongst the Germans as the “hero of Mogadishu”  blew open the front door of the aircraft and launched a well-planned tubular assault of the hijacked Lufthansa flight 181 (Boeing 737–230 Adv) also known as “Landshut” which was on the Somalian tarmac, in […]

Speed has always been a crucial and quite rewarding aspect of our culture, society and the very simple process of determining what is good or bad. In the age of internet and fast food, all we need is here. Right here, right now, fast as a rocket, simple as walking. Today a shooter’s tactical legitimacy […]

The Israel Security Agency, otherwise known as Shin Bet have announced Wednesday, that last month the organization successfully foiled the plans of an active terror cell in Samaria. The mountainous central region of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean is located north of the West Bank, Israel. According to ISA, the terror cell was composed of three […]

This article is neither about a specific rule nor specific ways of doing specific things. Like anything in life there are dozens of paths to one destination, it´s all about efficiency and safety that sets the difference. These ‘rules’ are more of a reminder of things that many forget or they are not aware of. […]

In the tactical world, the word instructor is widely overused and has become an over-saturated description for many people. The meaning has become null in the sense that instructing and teaching are two very different approaches to the problem and the solution. For real world applications (high threat) instructing the solution isn’t enough as to […]