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The Rise of Motorcycle Warfare.

Simon Whistler · April 21, 2026 · 19 min video · Global

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What this episode covers

From the Sahel to Myanmar, cheap dirt bikes now give insurgents speed, reach, and surprise that armored convoys cannot match — and conventional militaries have yet to find an answer.

Chapters

  1. Mounted Warfare Returns in the Drone AgeIn the free preview
  2. Motorcycle Warfare Erupts Around the WorldIn the free preview
  3. The Tactical Case for Combat MotorbikesInsiders

From the transcript

When the First World War began, the age of cavalry warfare reached its natural conclusion for any of the mobility, the speed and the sheer power of the mounted horsemen provided an unmatched battlefield advantage, with it by the chariot, by the bow, or by the lance.

But once the Gatling gun and the tank made their way to the front lines, and once those front lines were ashamed by trenches and heavy artillery, cavalry was rendered ill useless.

The world still occasionally saw the use of the mounted soldier, whether in Bashiba in 1917 or in Batan and on the shores of Russia's Don River in 1942, but outside of an incredibly narrow set of circumstances, there is simply no place for cavalry in modern warfare.

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