Book Reading List from Spotterup Alphabet B
Our recommended Book Reading List will continue to expand for each letter of the alphabet. We’ve only selected books that our contributors have actually read. If you have any book…
Spotter Up Review: ALPS OutdoorZ Commander and ALPS Mountaineering Mystique
A Spotter Up Review and Adventure! Months previous, we started planning. We gathered our gear, planned our route and as the weeks crawled by, we drew closer. My favorite time…
Escape and Evasion Fitness Movements Martial Arts Mission Critical Opinion POLICE Prepping & Survival
Fire in the Combatives Community
In 1919 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in a United States Supreme Court decision, “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in…
Home Security Martial Arts Mission Security Opinion POLICE Prepping & Survival PSYCHE Tactics Weaponizing the Behavioral Sciences
Are Our Active Shooting Response Models Viable?
With active shootings seemingly reoccurring on a weekly basis, we need an analytical approach that removes certain emotional factors from the encounter to determine the effectiveness of the training that…
Awareness Escape and Evasion Home Security Intelligence/Spies Mission Security Opinion Prepping & Survival PSYCHE Tactics Weaponizing the Behavioral Sciences Wisdom
How To Increase Your Situational Awareness: 6 Tips To Be Safer from Arminius Tribe
So you know how to fight? That’s just great! But as Sun Tzu said: ‘The Supreme Art of War is to subdue the Enemy without Fighting’. Only fight if you…
Have we Pedestalized the PTSD diagnosis?
When it comes to Veterans and mental health, I’m usually the first, and loudest, to argue that it’s rarely PTSD. Methodologically rigorous studies consistently document PTSD rates under 10%. That’s…
Say Hick’s Law One More Time:
Say Hick’s Law One More Time: The shooting community is riddled with emotionally charged terms and catch phrases like; tactical, dynamic, operator, tier 1, and the like. But the shooting…
DOK: PTSD the New Badge of Honor
PTSD the New Badge of Honor (DOK) Diatribes of a Knucklehead 180501 This weekend we lost another Marine to PTSD. This was the headline of a Facebook Page post from…
The Terminal List Book Review
Introduction Throughout my time in the Marines and law enforcement, I have found that some of the most successful people have a few things in common. They take their job…
Learn to Put Yourself Out There
I do stuff that I hate until it becomes something I like. I’m a genuine introvert that forces himself to be an extrovert. I work hard to build relationships and…