General Marcel Bigeard (1916-2010)
THINK, CREATE, TRAIN AND IMPLEMENT A COMBAT GROUP
Here we talk about risk management. The risk of a sufficiently large collapse of the social structure and its components for you to defend your life, that of your family, an area, and, by extension, a (your) territory. Yes. Your territory, your resources, your family. Whatever name you give to your reaction to this risk, gregarious instinct, survivalism, patriotism ... the result is the same: you will fight in all possible ways, in all the dimensions imposed by your environment, and with constraints generally non-existent in a modern, long-established army. Or you will die.
Once this observation is made, or, for some, this realization made, a brutal truth is essential: you are deprived of the skills and know-how of the fighter. Of course some are hunters, other sports shooters, and still others enjoy exceptional fitness, but nothing, absolutely nothing, has prepared you for military action, let alone counter-insurgency. Worse, you have no logistical means to level, even minima, your lack of competence.
STRESS
In addition to a decisive "field" practice, the training of a warrior requires a perspective as deep as possible, adjusted to the limits inherent in the condition of the civilian combatant - the militiaman (miles / soldier) - (material means limited and lack of logistics base - family or clan structure unaccustomed to living according to a defined hierarchical structure - no employment doctrine or strategy thought upstream).
Nothing will replace an empirical approach. Absolutely nothing. However, we will try, through a series of articles, and a documentary base as much as possible - free of download and use - to bring the theoretical base allowing, according to a defined protocol, to think and put an operational combat group, flexible and adapted to the forms of combat observed during a civil war.
Some essential prerequisites before starting:
Kinetic energy, bulletproof, knife guard or syringe guard ...
How to organize and implement the different missions of a group of combatants?
What is the Night Vision? How does it work and how to choose your telescope!
BEAT THEIR TERRITORY - BASIC MILITARY TRAINING / 3 - PART1
The reflections of three French military doctors on the general organization of field medicine ...
Fighter Psychology or Preparation for Confrontation