Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

"Caliber is irrelevant if you get your shot in the correct location." It's a mantra mindlessly repeated at gun stores and online. But in actual lifesaving interactions, the cartridge can decide success almost as much as firearms skill. Contemporary ballistics research, decades-long law enforcement careers, and street-tested defensive interactions...

No matter whether this was deliberate or not, it is downright reckless, it is downright dangerous, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stated recently, characterizing Russia's increasingly aggressive readiness to probe the boundaries of escalation. That admonishment set the context for one of the most technologically and complicated aerial attacks...

What is patience in combat repurposed as a coup de grâce? In May 2025, Ukrainian forces showed us exactly that capturing one pixel of a Russian tank and turning it into the destruction of an entire vehicle hub. The assault, mounted by the 225th Assault Regiment, was a greater...