Posted on 06/30/2013 9:58:12 AM PDT by DTogo
USA --(Ammoland.com)- Special operations troops are often lauded for their ability to move behind enemy lines undetected, gather detailed reconnaissance, conduct daring raids and rescues, and then disappear just as quickly as they’ve arrived.
At least, that’s the sort of thing that makes a good Hollywood film.
One of the greatest and most important capabilities of such highly-trained troops, however, is their ability to train local forces into a formidable defensive units, and that is the premise of Mike Garand and Jack Lawson’s “A Failure of Civility,” one of the more unique survival books on the market....
Former Navy SEAL and Enemies Foreign and Domestic author Matt Bracken said of the book:
“I believe that every American prepper needs a copy of “A Failure of Civility” as a reference manual for survival during the most trying times ahead. Along with the Bible, I consider it the most important book that I am personally aware of for getting through the dark days that we may be about to experience.”
Nice job, Matt!
WRSA:
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/bracken-a-review-of-a-failure-of-civility/
"A Failure of Civility" is an excellent SHTF field manual!
www.downs.net
http://www.downws.net/ebooks/252541-a-failure-of-civility.html
(Never seen this site before...)
I see the value of such a book for city dwellers, as that’s what it’s apparently written for.
Forgive my skepticism, but it’s my belief the bigger the city, the less apt residents are likely to believe in a melt down and the more likely they’d be to either laugh at or worse yet, turn in anyone trying to organize preppers. I also believe that the organizers would be identifying themselves to those that want to loot their stashes when the meltdown happens.
There may not be laws restricting individual preppers, but do such laws exist that could be interpreted as making those that organize preppers as criminals?
Ping for later.
And, conveniently available on the Kindle. Just got my copy, thanks for the tip!
Thank you for posting this.
Just ordered it from Amazon.
There are plenty of laws out there, and if there are not enough, the authorities can always make more.
I do not see this book as only for city dwellers. If order is lost over a large area, (which has happened historically with some regularity, but which seems unlikely in today’s America), then single rural households will not be a viable place to survive, just as single homesteads were not viable on the frontier. A singe family is simply too vulnerable to a small group of raiders.
This book gives some pretty good hints on how to organize a defense within a community.
With regards to the range of opinions in political speech and on defensive tactics today, I’ll enjoy living far from the cities and avoiding any proximity to the “leaders.” Drive on, Homer Simpson. Have fun. Enjoy the slide.
I think it is a good idea to have really important books as hard copy.
Only one in thousands of Americans is really trained in our U.S. Armed Forces to be an effective killer. Pretenders, far outnumbering current and former light combat personnel, imitate civilian police and movie characters (as seen exposing themselves on YouTube).
The many corporate/government executive slobs who have talked about murdering rural families don’t know what they’re talking about, have no related training experience and have shown that they are incapable of realistic tactical planning. Having little hands-on low-tech experience, they’re out of touch with the world around them.
But, I am actually a failure in the minds of my son and two close relatives as they discount anything I say about prepping so I don't discuss it with them anymore - I would if they ask. I wonder if the “experts” who wrote this book are the same kind of failures in the minds of some close to them? I wonder if Kartographer is a failure with some of his family and close friends?
Our failure to be experts among family and close friends is as Mark Twain and Will Rogers explained experts:
Mark Twain defined an expert as “an ordinary fellow from another town”.
Will Rogers described an expert as “A man fifty miles from home with a briefcase.”
What Twain and Rogers stated is true and that's a sad fact. There are many people across this country who have printed every article I've written and put them in their emergency preparedness documents. My family members haven't read one thing I have written about prepping. I have not helped them one bit. I am too close to them for their consideration. If I had a different name and was from another location, they wouldn't have turned me completely off before reading at least one article. These family members know I'm really smart, smarter than they are, they will easily admit that, it's no big deal, but they stop right there, not wanting to know anything I know.
If you really know a subject, know more than most people about it, you could be considered an expert away from where you live but it's much more difficult to be considered an expert to the people who live around you and know you.
What about you? Have you encountered this problem in a field where you are an expert?
As for my family, I have stored extra for them but they don't know that. They see items stored in my house and have no idea what they are for and they never ask - they evidently don't want to know. My sister-in-law did ask one time, (only this time did she ask about anything), what a certain smallish box was for and I told her it was 100 gallons of good water. She ended up wanting one and I got it for her for Christmas.
Are you an expert about anything? Are you like Rodney Daingerfield (and me) - “I get no respect.” :o)
I’m well-prepped, thanks to you, Kart and dozens of others. Don’t worry about family; when TSHTF, they’ll realize what you’ve done and how brilliant you are, that you’re keeping them alive in the chaos and mayhem.
http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s607/Family_Farm/DCP_1285_zps16014aa0.jpg
Firearms and ammo, too.
http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s607/Family_Farm/DCP_0907a_zpse01f80b0.jpg
http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s607/Family_Farm/DCP_1406_zps031de4db.jpg
But my specialty is agriculture & horticulture, and widely-known & acknowledged. Sometimes, it’s a curse. Our Family Farm’s website, since ‘95, had 700 million hits before I took it offline on 11/11/11, when I closed, due to the economy and gov’t (EPA, DNR, DEP, Dept Int, Dept Ag, ACoE) unending rules, permits, fees, hearings, regs etc etc etc interference. They’ve devastated the ag & hort industries in America. I made it 22yrs, and lost an $8.5mm business, and quit.
You’re still doing good; don’t get discouraged or quit! I’m on the SP mail list and read it every week.
I bought it. I agree. Well worthwhile, and considers different levels of ‘troubles’.
PS - These are old pics from the Farm in Western PA; I’ve now moved to East York, and haven’t yet taken pics of the new arrangement in my Condo.
Rural families know their terrain. Every dip, where the ground is soft, which way the ditches run. Things that can't be quickly assessed from an aerial image.
That may well impart an advantage to the defenders.
IF you don't know your neighborhood, rural, suburban, small town, or big city, you should.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
