New Ordnance is a grizzled veteran of the early decades of the cold war. In his own words, “I was educated and trained to serve the beast which I did for a time and a season in my formative years.”

New Ordnance

Frenchman Flat
Nevada Test Site
May 25, 1953
8:30 AM

The provenance of my nom de plume was an arc that was initiated in the Spring of 1958 when I attended an Army Ordnance School at Aberdeen Proving Ground near Havre de Grace, Maryland on the upper reaches of Chesapeake Bay. In a back lot parked behind a nondescript warehouse I discovered an M65 280 MM gun and promptly fell in love with it. I liked the big stuff.

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Fifty-four years later I penned an essay entitled The Secret Weapon which enjoyed a certain notoriety in online survivalist circles. The rant was about the use of food as an ancient weapon of war to control nations and populations.

Folks, by now you might suspect that I am not writing about some new ordnance to be propelled down range in a novel fashion. Rather, I am going to share with you the details of the revolution in small agriculture...

That arc in time was quite an ellipse but the moniker stuck. I have out-grown my young fascination with the “big stuff” but I hope it will serve to grab your attention and compel you to find out how to live through such events and emerge on other side stronger than before.