In an ideal world we would have years of training and experience in hard skills and tactics, soft skills and tactics, and survival skills across a wide range of climate zones. We would be thoroughly familiar with our various areas of operation and the groups present...

Some goals can be achieved on one’s own. With strength, determination, and hard work it’s amazing what an individual can accomplish. More complex objectives, however, generally involve a team. To a large degree, the chances that a team will achieve its objective...

Reports of detainment and aggressive interrogation carried out by authoritarian governments overseas are increasing. In the last two years we’ve been directly involved in crisis management efforts involving more than two dozen cases. In just the last few months we’ve...

How would you call in your position without a secure communications option? We shared in topic 02.03.01 of the Soft Skills and Tactics course the account of how a friend was killed in an ambush by Islamic militants. The attack was possible due to an infraction...