Those of you who participate in combat sports, or who simply appreciate the skills of those who do, will understand the importance of studying an opponent’s technique. Whether doing so during a fight, or even better having the opportunity to study film of previous...
Training in the use of firearms and related tactics are an important part of helping to ensure that you can protect yourself, your family, and others. These hard skills are deployed when facing immediate deadly threats. We recommend that every head-of-household who...
Historians suggest that complex societies developed with the dawn of large-scale agriculture. With the production of enough food to feed more than one’s own family, clan, tribe or village, more complex forms of government started to develop. By about 4,000 years ago,...
Thanks to outstanding courses based on the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) protocol and its civilian counterpart known as Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC), countless thousands are being trained in prehospital trauma care. There’s no way of knowing how many...
The natural right to defend oneself, one’s family, and one’s property is foundational to human civilization. From anthropological accounts, it seems evident that even the most ancient forms of tribal society had rules about when harming another human being was...
The image above shows the balcony from a second-story room in a locally-owned guesthouse in Yemen. Several years ago I checked into this room. I was in the country to advise various individuals on security issues. A day or so before this image was taken a bombing took...
History and literature are replete with accounts of valiant acts. Men and women who stood firm in the face of intense trials are renowned for their bravery and boldness. Fictional films and novels vividly portray the tension between meeting a challenge and folding in...
The Panoplia.org Soft Skills and Tactics (SST) course is intended for individuals and small teams who serve in challenging international locations, or for those in the United States and Europe who sense that the current political climate may at some point lead to...
