March 2, 2026 • 7 mins
Former Military Green Baret and law enforcement officer Trevor Thrasher provides an experienced opinion
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're looking at this Cyrenian attack insanity, and as I
said before, I'm not real comfortable with it because I
don't know who to trust or believe. But when I
do look to people who to trust and believe, this
next guest is spot on right there, joining us, Trevor
Thrasher with eighty eight Tactical with threat Proof Network with
(00:23):
former US Army Green Beret police officer and the protector
of People and other other government agencies, The Man at Arms.
Trevor Thrasher, How you doing man?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Really good, Chris. It's good to hear your back on
the air, even if you don't know where the buttons are.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Well, I'm not even going to make wife jokes right now,
So Trevor. Over the weekend in Austin, Texas, what I
believe was a terror attack a guy and a property
of Islam hoodie. I didn't even know they made those,
and now would that hoodie should have a face cover?
That's probably the women.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But they just wear it backwards.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, all, there you go. That's good. So some people
are concerned about what we've been told are sleeper cells
in America. Just first of all, what's your take on
that and what should people do.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, I'll give you my down and durty. I had
multiple calls on this this weekend, parents concerned that their
kids are running around or taking a trip to a
foreign country, or just trying to understand what they should
do in the next couple of days. As I assess
the risk, I'd say the number one risk has already
happened and will probably continue to happen. And that's the
ideologically motivated you know, moon back or useful idiot. So
(01:42):
those types of people like you, sad and often will
use whatever weapon they have available. They're already crazy, They're
primed for an event. They just need a trigger. And
don't think that this only can evolve guns. That can
involve knives, molths of cocktails. We've already seen an ideological
molt of cocktail attack. And then of course vehicles, which
a lot of people discount, that are the most heavily heavy,
(02:03):
casually producing type of attack that you can face. Number
two is probably some type of fiber threat and I
ran as significant cyber capabilities, and the reason why you
need to worry about that as an everyday person is
it can disrupt a lot of things, including like phone service, internet, service,
Wi Fi, GPS tracking, and things of that nature. So
(02:26):
if you're separated from your family in another state, and
I know this has happened to me and my wife
and my wireless network goes completely down, it kind of
sends my wife into a state of panic. So have
an alternate means to communicate with your family if you're
going to split apart from them for a while, because
that could be disrupted. Number three might be some type
of targeted attack, maybe an assassination or an attack on
a military facility, and there's some likelihood of that. And
(02:50):
then lastly I would say, is the terror cell. The
terror cell is very low on my list, although obviously
the risk of that is catastrophic. The reason I think
it's low is because right now is really the wrong
time for it. The best time for that type of
teros cell attack would be when the US is distracted
with somebody else, perhaps China, Ukraine, something of that nature,
(03:10):
distracted with something domestically, and we'd be better if they
made it like something like a false flag to get
us to turn against each other. They certainly wouldn't want
to do it now because they would be the obvious
person who committed this crime, and that would probably blow
it very poorly for them. So I think my assessment
on the Terostelle right now is though, I just think
it's the wrong time. Now. Could it happened? Of course?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You know, I wonder because you know, I see these people.
I mean, over the years, I mean, my goodness, gracious,
for decades we've watched Iran threaten the world and then
they kind of quiet down. Then they threaten the world again,
and they talk about the Mahdi popping up out of
a well, and that seems to be their ultimate dream.
But for the Islamist my take is that the best
(03:58):
day for them is a day that they die. So
do you think they really care how it makes uh
Iran look?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, no, That's why I say I believe the biggest
threat is the ideological, ideologically motivated attacker, because you know,
essentially the suicide bomber is a poor desperate man's cruise missile,
and so they maybe act on their own. But as
far as being sponsored by the state, I think the
state now has to come to grips with reality and
that people in charge of Iran, who's ever left anyways,
(04:32):
has to know that we have the capability to basically
strike and it will. They're more than willing to send
other people to do it. But right now again not
the right time, because we're going to trace it right
back to them and we will eliminate them very rapidly
with our capabilities. And so there's still bunny of risk
out there. There's no reason the ideologically motivated you know,
terrorist is extreme threat to anybody anytime, in any place,
(04:54):
especially places where feel the most safe, like school, shopping centers,
you know, bars, whatever the place may be.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Trevor, you've served in that region off and on over
the years. How do people in other Arab countries in
your opinions see the Iranians? So they think they're a
bunch of bullies or is everybody looking to be the
top dog bully over there?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, it really is a region of bullies, martyrs and cowards,
is how I described the three groups over there, and
Iran is definitely seen as a bully right now. I
know domestically most Persians or Ouranians are celebrating this move
right now, so that looks very good for us at
this point in time. But I've been involved with dealing
(05:40):
with their various forces interfering with what we were doing
in Iraq. And you know, I've buried people I've worked
with or at least been to their funerals where they
were killed by IDs. My missions in Afghanistan, it wasn't
completely uncommon to spot a rown drome that was flying
overhead of our operation that most likely belonged to Aran
metal in everything all the time. There have a massive
(06:04):
amount of technological capability. I would not underestimate what they
can do on the cyber or electronic work are front
more so than anything traditional. Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
All right, well Trevor, Uh now, where can people get
into the threat proof network and your substack great stuff?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, you can go to threatproof dot substat dot dot com.
You can also find my book which has been released,
The Everyday Defender on Amazon, and you can get some
tips on these things you can do to protect your
family no matter what the crisis is.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Nice, all right, Trevor, listen, Thank you so much. I
appreciate you jumping on with us today, and I'm sure
we'll be talking again soon.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Take care, quest All right, take care. There he is
the great Trevor Thrasher Man at Arms. That guy's whole
career has been about guns and chasing bad guys, whether
it be in a military sense, whether it be in
a police lice officers sence, or whether it be in
a contractor sense protecting other government agencies.
We're looking at this Cyrenian attack insanity, and as I
said before, I'm not real comfortable with it because I
don't know who to trust or believe. But when I
do look to people who to trust and believe, this
next guest is spot on right there, joining us, Trevor
Thrasher with eighty eight Tactical with threat Proof Network with
(00:23):
former US Army Green Beret police officer and the protector
of People and other other government agencies, The Man at Arms.
Trevor Thrasher, How you doing man?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Really good, Chris. It's good to hear your back on
the air, even if you don't know where the buttons are.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Well, I'm not even going to make wife jokes right now,
So Trevor. Over the weekend in Austin, Texas, what I
believe was a terror attack a guy and a property
of Islam hoodie. I didn't even know they made those,
and now would that hoodie should have a face cover?
That's probably the women.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But they just wear it backwards.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, all, there you go. That's good. So some people
are concerned about what we've been told are sleeper cells
in America. Just first of all, what's your take on
that and what should people do.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, I'll give you my down and durty. I had
multiple calls on this this weekend, parents concerned that their
kids are running around or taking a trip to a
foreign country, or just trying to understand what they should
do in the next couple of days. As I assess
the risk, I'd say the number one risk has already
happened and will probably continue to happen. And that's the
ideologically motivated you know, moon back or useful idiot. So
(01:42):
those types of people like you, sad and often will
use whatever weapon they have available. They're already crazy, They're
primed for an event. They just need a trigger. And
don't think that this only can evolve guns. That can
involve knives, molths of cocktails. We've already seen an ideological
molt of cocktail attack. And then of course vehicles, which
a lot of people discount, that are the most heavily heavy,
(02:03):
casually producing type of attack that you can face. Number
two is probably some type of fiber threat and I
ran as significant cyber capabilities, and the reason why you
need to worry about that as an everyday person is
it can disrupt a lot of things, including like phone service, internet, service,
Wi Fi, GPS tracking, and things of that nature. So
(02:26):
if you're separated from your family in another state, and
I know this has happened to me and my wife
and my wireless network goes completely down, it kind of
sends my wife into a state of panic. So have
an alternate means to communicate with your family if you're
going to split apart from them for a while, because
that could be disrupted. Number three might be some type
of targeted attack, maybe an assassination or an attack on
a military facility, and there's some likelihood of that. And
(02:50):
then lastly I would say, is the terror cell. The
terror cell is very low on my list, although obviously
the risk of that is catastrophic. The reason I think
it's low is because right now is really the wrong
time for it. The best time for that type of
teros cell attack would be when the US is distracted
with somebody else, perhaps China, Ukraine, something of that nature,
(03:10):
distracted with something domestically, and we'd be better if they
made it like something like a false flag to get
us to turn against each other. They certainly wouldn't want
to do it now because they would be the obvious
person who committed this crime, and that would probably blow
it very poorly for them. So I think my assessment
on the Terostelle right now is though, I just think
it's the wrong time. Now. Could it happened? Of course?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You know, I wonder because you know, I see these people.
I mean, over the years, I mean, my goodness, gracious,
for decades we've watched Iran threaten the world and then
they kind of quiet down. Then they threaten the world again,
and they talk about the Mahdi popping up out of
a well, and that seems to be their ultimate dream.
But for the Islamist my take is that the best
(03:58):
day for them is a day that they die. So
do you think they really care how it makes uh
Iran look?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, no, That's why I say I believe the biggest
threat is the ideological, ideologically motivated attacker, because you know,
essentially the suicide bomber is a poor desperate man's cruise missile,
and so they maybe act on their own. But as
far as being sponsored by the state, I think the
state now has to come to grips with reality and
that people in charge of Iran, who's ever left anyways,
(04:32):
has to know that we have the capability to basically
strike and it will. They're more than willing to send
other people to do it. But right now again not
the right time, because we're going to trace it right
back to them and we will eliminate them very rapidly
with our capabilities. And so there's still bunny of risk
out there. There's no reason the ideologically motivated you know,
terrorist is extreme threat to anybody anytime, in any place,
(04:54):
especially places where feel the most safe, like school, shopping centers,
you know, bars, whatever the place may be.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Trevor, you've served in that region off and on over
the years. How do people in other Arab countries in
your opinions see the Iranians? So they think they're a
bunch of bullies or is everybody looking to be the
top dog bully over there?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, it really is a region of bullies, martyrs and cowards,
is how I described the three groups over there, and
Iran is definitely seen as a bully right now. I
know domestically most Persians or Ouranians are celebrating this move
right now, so that looks very good for us at
this point in time. But I've been involved with dealing
(05:40):
with their various forces interfering with what we were doing
in Iraq. And you know, I've buried people I've worked
with or at least been to their funerals where they
were killed by IDs. My missions in Afghanistan, it wasn't
completely uncommon to spot a rown drome that was flying
overhead of our operation that most likely belonged to Aran
metal in everything all the time. There have a massive
(06:04):
amount of technological capability. I would not underestimate what they
can do on the cyber or electronic work are front
more so than anything traditional. Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
All right, well Trevor, Uh now, where can people get
into the threat proof network and your substack great stuff?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, you can go to threatproof dot substat dot dot com.
You can also find my book which has been released,
The Everyday Defender on Amazon, and you can get some
tips on these things you can do to protect your
family no matter what the crisis is.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Nice, all right, Trevor, listen, Thank you so much. I
appreciate you jumping on with us today, and I'm sure
we'll be talking again soon.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Take care, quest All right, take care. There he is
the great Trevor Thrasher Man at Arms. That guy's whole
career has been about guns and chasing bad guys, whether
it be in a military sense, whether it be in
a police lice officers sence, or whether it be in
a contractor sense protecting other government agencies.
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