by Mike | Oct 1, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN GET YOUR AFFAIRS IN ORDER I don’t know whether you will get in a gunfight. I do know, for a fact, that you will die someday. If you have a risky career or even risky hobbies—you owe it to yourself and your family to have...
by Mike | Sep 24, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN WANNA SHOOT BETTER? There is no magic to becoming a great shooter—like most skills, it is mostly just a matter of deliberate and continuous practice, with good coaching. The problem is that there are barriers to...
by Mike | Sep 17, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN WHAT’S CHANGED SINCE SEPTEMBER 11 2001? Prior to September 11th, 2001, the face of America’s enemies had a different look. It’s not that Islamic extremism was new, or that terrorism wasn’t on the radar—of course it...
by Mike | Sep 9, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN People, Ideas, Hardware. Right? Back in the day, a fighter pilot named John Boyd investigated why American pilots fared so well against Korean pilots during the Korean War. The Korean’s were flying a MiG that had a higher...
by Mike | Sep 1, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN TRAUMA CENTERS: LOAD AND GO! Several times in my career, I’ve had interactions with other police officers that involved a discussion about where they would take a downed officer in an emergency. Before you ask why we...
by Mike | Aug 27, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN STRANGER DANGER! WHY “NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS” IS WRONG At Tactical Tangents, one of our goals is to take long-held ideas or beliefs that drive our decision making, and apply a layer of scrutiny to them in the...
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