The Prepper Broadcasting Network - TACTICAL TUESDAY: WW2 Resistance Cells, Choosing Targets, Conditions

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

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Self-reline is an independent. The Pepper Broadcasting Network. We have to hit the reset button and create a true culture of preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. So, let's talk about setting up targets for an attack when it comes to, basically when it comes to resistance movements and how the resistance cells. fought the Germans during World War II. Now, there is a lot of stuff here to learn and to look at, okay? But when it comes to planning an attack on your enemy, on the Germans, whoever you want to look at there, there are some essential things that you're going to need to know.

Now, last time we talked about some of these things, okay? We talked about, you know, various things like, you know, how much, how, how risky is it to your organization or to that resistance movement? How risky is it to them? You know, can you make it look like an accident? Is there a place for your guys to fall back to if you need to? One thing that the leader of that movement needs to do is they need to basically look at what are the worst possible? consequences of them getting caught. Okay. We talked about the guards. We talked about walls, fences, you know, ditches, moats, all these things that could potentially be barriers to your team

completing their mission. Okay. We talked about entrances surrounding ground, you know, like is there cover, you know, can you bound rock to rock, are there trees? Um, We also talked about fighting during the day or during the night, you know, attacking during the day and during the night. Right. So back then, they didn't have the night vision technology that we have now. They also didn't have thermal, which is something that we have now. So these are all things that you should probably keep in mind if you're a soldier. Right.

Now, back then, they probably didn't think about these things, you know, so much. but, you know, if I was maybe, oh, I don't know, putting together a video game on this stuff, you know, I'd be thinking about all that stuff, you know. What are the, you know, when is the night going to be the darkest? In other words, when is the moon not going to show a whole hell of a lot of light, right? Because I'm sure all of you guys have been outside before and the moon has literally lit up the area that you're at. I mean, it's not as bright as the sun, obviously.

Duh, right? But the moon can be bright enough to make it to where you can visibly see someone moving. Okay? There's other things to consider, too. For instance, if you were in a modern situation, you would want to consider the phases of the moon anyway. Okay? Especially if you're using night vision devices. Or even if you're not, okay?

even if you're not using nods it doesn't matter because you need to use that cover of darkness right most special forces units go out and fight at night for a reason okay so keep that in mind that that is something important if you were in a modern setting not saying that anyone would ever use this information for that but if you were in a modern setting and i was going to use nods i would definitely be paying attention to the phases of the moon. Because knowing what phase the moon is in and exactly how much light it's going to be given off in the area that I'm going to be operating in, well, shit, man, I need to know what that is. Is it going to be a lot of light, a little bit of light?

Is it going to be just enough light? Am I going to need an IR illuminator on my helmet? Am I going to need an IRUlluminator on my gun? I'm definitely going to need a laser, but the rest, I don't know. So all of these things matter. Okay. We talked about weather. This is a big one, guys.

What kind of weather are you going to encounter during the time when you're going to be operating? What kind of weather are you going to run into? Because there are times where crappy weather can be, you know, useful to your advantage. Okay. I hate to go back to, you know, feudal Japan, you know, and, you know, talk about Shinobi, you know, not Ninja, because that's a freaking Hollywood term. But, you know, there is some truth to those legends, okay? I, you know, I don't know a whole lot about it. I don't really care much about it.

But, you know, everybody knows. And it has been reported that those guys would operate when it was raining outside, you know, because it would kind of. cover the sound of their footsteps or it would cover the sound of their movement. It would cover the sound of them opening a gate or whatever. The same thing even applied to the Spartans. It applies to, you know, the special forces, modern special forces. I'm sure a lot of those guys prefer to operate when weather is bad but not too bad, right? So if you have something out there that is obscuring the vision of your opponent or it makes it difficult for people.

people to hear you, then that's awesome, right? Don't let it be so bad, though, that you can't hear your own guys and you can't, you don't know what's going on. However, in a modern day sense, there are probably some scenarios where specops don't operate during bad weather because their overhead satellites and their, you know, drones and things like that can't see what they're doing and can't help them, or an AC130 can't help them if the clouds you know if there's clouds everywhere and it's raining and stuff they don't know where they are you know it could make things very very bad so you know i'm sure there are certain

situations where they don't operate but anyways that is a whole discussion for another time tactical weather rha anyways um the uh there are some other considerations that we need to go over when it comes to picking a target, like the method of attack, let's think about the various ways that you could attack a target, okay? The first thing that you need to do when you're reconning that target is you need to decide, well, first of all, you need to decide what the target is, okay? But let's just say, I don't know, let's say it's a rail yard or something, okay? Let's say it's just a rail yard, okay? We need to know as much information about that rail yard as possible, okay?

We need to know what, excuse me, we need to know what the surrounding area looks like. We need to know if it's down in a valley or up on a hill or, you know, how it is placed in nature. we need to know what the upcoming weather is going to be, right? We just talked about weather. We need to know the train schedule, if at all possible. We need to know what is moving through there and when. We need to know how many guards are on duty there. And not just how many guards are on duty there, but how good are these guards?

You know, are they doing checks every hour? Are they doing checks every minute, two minutes, three minutes, whatever? Are they constantly up looking around, head on a swivel? Or are these guys just sitting in the guard shack watching Ren and Snippy or something? You know? How long as it beens you heard of Ren and Stimpy, right? Anywho, how good are these guards? Are they super alert?

You know, what are their orders, right? Do they have shoot to kill orders? Or are they just, you know, somebody who sits and does nothing, right? The other thing to think about too when it comes to this, you know, and it's just a branch off of that tree, is those guards, you know, can you bribe them? Can you knock them out? Can you bluff them? Can, you know, what are my options there? Okay. But anyways, moving back to the target, the guards are part of that target. Okay. So what is our target objective? Okay. Our target objective, depending on. on what the target is is generally going to be to knock that target out of action, to

make sure that that target does not keep going. To put it out of action, put it out of commission, okay? If it's a railway, you don't want the Germans bringing any more troops or supplies or tanks

or whatever, whatever, whatever. You don't want them bringing any more of that crap into Europe. You want to stop it before it can ever get there. So you'll need to look at multiple factors once you figure out, you know, what your objective is on that specific target. You see, all this stuff branches off and keeps trickling down. Okay.

So you've got the leader of the resistance movement. Then you've got the entire movement itself. Then you've got the. there are specific sections within the movement and agents that operate within that movement. And then you've got the leader who's going to plan missions, okay? And then those missions, you know, you've got multiple things that need to be figured out through reconnaissance, through all sorts of different means to figure those things out. So there are a lot of things.

that need to be considered when you're getting ready to go into a target. Again, like I said before, what do we want to accomplish? What is on our list to have happened to this place? Well, like we just said, we want it out of commission. We don't want it to be there anymore. So we want to blow the rail lines, I'm guessing, right? We want to knock out the rail lines. Okay?

We want to knock out the rail cars. but if we knock out their tracks themselves, it's going to be a hell of a lot harder for them to do much without tracks on that rail yard, right? So we need to look at the various different factors involved in taking out those railroad tracks, okay? So what about the level of security at that rail yard? Okay.

Does it have guard tower? does it have a fence, does it have a gate, does it have a, you know, coated entry? Are there guard dogs? You know, what about, what about like a normal chain link fence or a wooden fence or anything like that? What about a brick wall? You know, all of this stuff is important. Another thing, especially back in the day, would have been something like searchlights, you know? searchlights and dogs. Those are big, big, big ones. You get caught in a search light or you got them German shepherds running around.

You know, that's not good. You definitely don't want to have that happen. So you need to be looking at what are your options in that area for cover and concealment. Keep in mind, cover is something that stops people. It's concealment is something that stops people from seeing you for the most part. Okay? Keep those two things in mind. All right.

Next thing you need to look at is the main entrances. Okay. What about the main entrances to that rail yard? Okay? The main entrances are probably going to be centered around where the trains come in and go out of that rail yard. But there's also going to be, you know, barracks or, you know, buildings, whatever you want to call them, for the staff, for the train yard personnel, for guards, and so on. You're going to want to figure out where do the guards sleep?

Do they sleep on site? What about the rail yard staff? Is there anybody that lives on site or sleeps there? Or do they all go home after their shift? Okay. All of these things need to be answered before anyone makes a move on any objective. They need to be thought about 100%. Again, what kind of fences are we looking at?

What kind of security is there? If the sabotage you want to do is significant, can you make it look like it was just an accident? You know, the derailing of the train or whatever. Can you make that look like it's just a freaking accident? Is that possible? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not.

Now, sometimes when the resistance would attack a target, they would have simultaneous attacks going on in other places, or they would have multiple attacks happening at the same time in an area. Okay. So if you have, let's say, and keep in mind, we, you know, multiple episodes back, we talked about the different types of fighting back, like different ways that resistance would fight back, okay? We talked about propaganda, passive resistance, sabotage, all kinds of stuff, too. We talked about a lot of it, okay? there is there there's there's a good doctrine to follow that when you know these this initial attack is happening another attack should be happening at the same time so let's say you're going kinetic okay let's say you are going to derail that train car and all the other cars behind it or whatever the locomotive and you're going to you know mess up those tracks okay that is a pretty you know, it's going to draw a lot of attention to you and your team.

Okay. So keep in mind that you, at the same time that that's going on, you can also accomplish other things, right? So let's say you've got a whole group of propaganda experts with your team. Those guys can be working on propaganda while your sabotage team is doing what they do best. Okay. You could have a minor sabotage operation going on at the same time as the major sabotage operations going on as well, one of each. Okay?

You could have, you know, instead of two, you could have three sabotage emissions going on at the same time, right? And not all of these need to be done by your specific resistance cell, okay? They can be done by other people. They can be done by other groups. They could be done a whole plethora of different ways. So that's something to consider, if at all possible. On top of that, it may take your resistance team some time to work out how these attacks are going to work

and what you're going to do and where you're going to hit and so on and so forth. Okay? Now, I'm trying to think of how to word this, okay? There are ways to perform, there are different ways to perform various types of attacks, okay? But the simplest way should usually be the first choice. because when something is simple, right? Keep it simple, stupid. Simplicity generally has the best chance of success, especially when it comes to anything like that. Simplicity has the best chance of success. So keep that in mind when you are looking at planning something like that. Hell, keep that in mind when you're planning to fix up your house or build something or,

you know, work on your car or anything. Simplicity is always going to be the best. That is something that you absolutely cannot let go. Okay? Next, we just talked about multiple ways that you can plan attacks. And the podcast before this one, that was what that was about. We've gone through quite a bit when it comes to planning attacks. Now, there are some other things that need to be considered when planning attacks, too.

We've talked about quite a vitim, okay? But something that you'll want to take a look at that they always took a look at back in the day, too, was how are you going to circumvent any kind of security at the place that you want to target? Okay. So let's think about that rail yard, for instance, okay? That rail yard, well, I don't know, we can go modern or we can go old school. Old school, you're probably going to have some guards. You're going to have walls.

You're probably going to have barbed wire, maybe razor wire. I'm not sure if they had razor wire back in World War II. I think they did. You're going to have guard dogs and searchlights like we talked about earlier. but can anyone else think of anything else out there? Raise your hand if you can. I'm just kidding. Something else that they might have is vehicle patrols, right?

They also might have a minefield, crazy as it may sound back in the day. They might have a minefield around that particular train station because they can't afford to let it get messed up. So they want to create as much havoc, or as much, not havoc, but they want to create as much, not havoc, but they want to create as much, you know, danger area as possible so people won't get anywhere near that train yard. Okay. So can you circumvent those security measures? Another thing to think about, let's take out it from a modern standpoint, but the same exact target. A train yard, let's say modern security is going to center a lot around cameras.

It's going to center a lot around various different types of sensors. You know, you may even have in the ground sensors, okay? The sensors that they bury in the ground, you know, to capture footsteps, right? Border Patrol uses those all the time. They bury, you know, footsteps sensors all over the border. It is pretty cool what they do. They've got IR cameras. They've got thermal cameras.

They've, you know, night vision, I.R. Whatever, whatever, whatever, you know. They've got all that stuff, right? In a train yard, they may very well have night vision cameras. They might have thermal, who knows? But they are going to have night vision cameras. They're probably going to have guards on duty. They're going to have fences.

I don't know, you know, to what extent they want to, I don't know what the word is. But that's something to look at. Keep in mind also, not this time, but the time before, we talked about how you're going to get to your target and get away from your target. But we also need to think about if you're going to attack that target, are you going to need arms? Are you going to need weapons? And what kind of weapons are you going to need?

How are you going to derail the rails from that rail yard? Okay. How are you going to cause that to happen? You're also going to want to look at the firearms and the weapons that your guys are going to carry and use. How much ammo do you need? What about medical? What about extra mags? What about uniforms?

All of these things, and I mean all of these things, come into play when someone is planning this type of mission. The other thing to think about, too, if you're thinking about it, too, if you're thinking of thinking about, you know, how am I going to get to that target and how am I going to get away from that target? You need to look at multiple contingency egress routes, okay? Multiple possible egress routes. Different ways to get out of there, if you don't know what I'm talking about. Multiple ways to get out of Dodge, okay? So let's say you've hit your target, but it has triggered reinforcements to come to the

area that you're at. Well, you better have three or four emergency exits out of that place. You better know how to take the back door out. And then you better have a way to get out of there after that, after that general egress, right? You know, moving away, the retreat, whatever you want to call it. You know, you need to have those various different paths laid out for everybody that's in your group. probably wouldn't hurt to cash a some gear along your retreat route. It probably wouldn't hurt to cashet some ammo. Because you got always to go back for it later. You don't need it right then if you don't need it right then.

Okay. So anyways, all of that stuff is important. Now, then, then you get into the administrative side of it, okay? you know, the kind of orders that you're going to get from the leaders that may be above the agent that is running the team. So think about that for a minute. Generally, you know, during World War II, you had the agent on the ground and the radio operator, but they were getting orders from Great Britain. They were getting orders from the SOE, MI6, so on and so forth.

So think about that for a second. and think about how these organizations operated back then and you may have your organization. You might be the agent on the ground and you're like, okay, I've got a perfect target. I got all the reconnaissance done that I need. I've got all the gear that I need. You send the information to home base and they say,

negative. We have a different mission for you. I mean, what do you do? You freaking do what you're told, right? There's not really much of a choice there. you do what they want you to do, okay? So keep all of that stuff in mind while you're putting this stuff together, okay? There are a lot of administrative things that need to be done,

especially when it comes to building this type of organization and carrying out attacks. Cover stories are absolutely imperative. It doesn't matter even if your guys aren't. operating. They still need a plausible cover story for why they're there, what they're doing, where they work, what their family is, so on and so forth. Okay. So keep that in mind. And next time, we will get a little bit deeper into what kind of administrative roles we need. And then we will move back into some of the other methods of how you set up an attack, where you set up the attack, and maybe some other areas.

that you would want to attack back then, so we'll have a better idea of how to attack these sorts of sites back in the day. Okay? All right, guys, that's going to do it for me. Don't forget, visit my website, gunmetal LLC.com. Check it out. Let me know what you think. If you have any questions on the classes, go ahead and email me, and we'll see you guys next time as we go deeper inside the World War II Lab of the Gun Metal Armory. Good night, everybody. Thank you for joining us. We'll see you next time on the Gun Metal Armory.