From time to time even highly qualified military combative instructors with long service records are victims of detractor’s online character assassination rants.

You would wonder why anyone with a gripe would not have the courage of conviction to take issues up directly with anyone that upsets their fragile disposition.

You would think anyone that wants to find the facts of matters would have the intestinal fortitude to contact the source of their dissatisfaction directly.

Those that suffer from cowardly keyboard warrior syndrome show their intent and intentions by not seeking clarification from the source.

Interestingly often those that go public without hard facts research have never proven themselves and achieved rank in the tradecraft of the target subject of their rants and as such can hardly be considered a subject matter expert.

Those that hide behind codenames, fake names, and false contact details just show how weak and devious they are.

What they do not understand is that trying to protect their identity by using pseudonyms and fake names is only an immediate temporary means of deception and protection, but will not provide indefinite anonymity in these times of highly capable computer specialists.

The general modus operandi of keyboard warriors may well be to discredit, defame and generally character assassinate anyone that has achieved or is achieving more than them in a trade craft that requires commitment and inner resolve.

The first consideration for those of intelligence is if the detractor is in fact military trained, tested and qualified in the tradecraft of military close combat that they are claiming to know about.

If there is no official proof of qualification and military close combat rank and instructing service where is the substance and facts and what is their motive and motivation.

Some may well be green with envy because they are not, or their instructor is not, a military qualified respected trade craft instructor delivering military close combat to the military and as such they are on the outside and this affects their egos.

Really the only way they can get any attention is by means of online campaigns without credibility rank and trade craft instructing service.

They may well be seeking the support of those like themselves or those that know no better.

Making loud noises without factual substance like an empty drum being beaten from afar over the internet does not require intestinal fortitude as it does not require courage to insult or character assassinate anyone over the world wide web.

A military master instructor colleague of mine described such cowardly keyboard warriors as the types that do not have the intestinal fortitude to volunteer for training, volunteer as a candidate for testing and achieve qualifications moving up through the ranks. These key board warriors from the safety of their home opt for malicious smear campaigns undertaken from their weapon of choice a keyboard.

A late elite forces friend of mine who was also a long-term newspaper writer and former editor described such attacks on the pieces he wrote as “like being spanked with a feather duster”. I have heard descriptions of devious weak detractors such as internet trolls hiding away in their attics and basements behind a keyboard sucking on cocoa with their mummy’s or wifey’s massaging their shoulders or patting them on the back.

Such deceitful actions as malicious smear campaigns against those that are trade craft leaders provides an insight into the bad character, low integrity hidden motives and agendas of the instigators of such character assassinations.

The reality is such malicious undertakings make decent respectful responsible combative proponents and enthusiasts of intelligence look at both the credibility and motives of the author of the post and the rank status and service of subject of such malicious posts.

So, checking out both the source and subject is equally as important to establish credibility and identify motive.

Those that can make no difference often look to using the bandwagon means to get others to support their hidden agenda cause.

I have heard from individuals that have discovered they have been used to gain credibility from such unscrupulous types and when they found out the information they had been given and posted was untrue they did the right thing by making a public apology, only to become the victim of ranting and raving themselves.

So, jumping on the bandwagon for the sake of it can bring negative outcomes and possibly civil litigation.

Qualification and records of service are proof of knowledge, expertise and capability and those without them are proof of nothing more than an outside interest.

The usual search can find no proof of military instructor rank and military instructing service records and you would think if these self-proclaimed experts had proof they would let the world know.

There is always civil litigation for those that can afford it and it’s only a matter of time before lawyers will take such cases on a contingent/conditional fee basis, so keep all records of such deformation and seek civil litigation advice as such cowardly keyboard warriors actions may well lead to their down fall.

Don’t believe everything you hear or read and do your research on the source and the subject.