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

The Israeli Defense Forces are one of the very few modern and technologically advanced organizati...

After a long day of rumors and anticipation in Israel, at 2000 hours local time Prime Minister Ne...

A compressed environment is perhaps one of the most dangerous and relentless setting you can deal...

“Why do you keep these tactics so simple?” That’s a question I get sometimes by thought...

With the recent horrible school shooting in Parkland, Fla. that has left 17 people dead, the ne...

The Israeli Airstrike on Saturday, Jan. 13, managed to successfully compromise what we in the IDF...

October the 17th, 1977,  It is five minutes past midnight, Ulrich Wegener, known amongst the Ger...

Speed has always been a crucial and quite rewarding aspect of our culture, society and the very s...

The Israel Security Agency, otherwise known as Shin Bet have announced Wednesday, that last month...

This article is neither about a specific rule nor specific ways of doing specific things. Like an...

In the tactical world, the word instructor is widely overused and has become an over-saturated de...

They say there are things you need to see in order to believe. This Friday morning in Hamburg is ...

Welcome back to the second part of the Top 10 unwritten rules of CQB series. In the previous part...

This series of articles isn’t meant to offer concrete, hard-and-fast rules about close-qua...

Tel al-Hawa, Gaza (3:35 A.M.) – Hamas has disclosed that one of its senior members, Mazen Pokha...

Yes you read it right. The Israeli Defense Forces have recently announced that they finished deve...

Awareness is there to ensure that the individual remains proactive rather than reactive; from the...

Immediate threats are actively happening in real time. They are a present danger that is next in ...

Camouflage is one of those old skills that has remained relevant in the modern battle space. ...

The Israeli roof-knock procedure has been used extensively in the recent conflict in Gaza.

This versatile aircraft’s low acoustic footprint makes the Airbus H145 the quietest helicop...

In places like Afghanistan there are a lot of short rooms—both in size and height. Height is a ...

Close-quarters combat (CQC) is a type of fighting in which small units engage the opponent with p...

The Israeli military is known for having unique solutions for the concealment of either humans or...