The world is pretty tense right now. Every day, it seems, the tension gets ratcheted up a little more. With that in mind, I want to talk about the concept of immediate action plans. In small unit tactics, we would refer to these as immediate action drills or battle drills, but our scope is aContinue reading “Immediate Action Plans”
Monthly Archives: March 2026
Preparedness & Tradecraft
We all like to be acknowledged for our cleverness, but it can lead to problems down the road. There are dozens of preparedness groups on social media, where people show everyone their great ideas, thinking it’s all like-minded and safe people. They may all very well be. But what do you think will happen afterContinue reading “Preparedness & Tradecraft”
Vehicle Readiness
Ok, so maybe we can’t all own an up-armored Land Rover. Well, I’ve got one friend who has one but he’s the exception. My other friend, Ron Moeller (Deputy Assistant Secretary of War) has a pretty sweet bug-out truck, but that’s mostly classified. Since we can’t all match their style, let’s talk about some thingsContinue reading “Vehicle Readiness”
You Are Here
One of the biggest problems we have to overcome in preparedness is normalcy bias or the “nothing ever happens” syndrome. Things are happening and global risk is going up. We have to see the world as it is, not as it should be or as something happening “over there”. We just had a terror attackContinue reading “You Are Here”
Tactical Wisdom 