DEFENSIVE TACTICS IN A POST APOCALYPSE WORLD

                                                            DEFENSIVE TACTICS 
                                                                          by James the Bruce

   There are seven classes for concealment and personal camouflaging in a combative environment.
*Shape / Outline          *Movement        *Scent
*Color / Texture          *Noise
*Shine / Flash              *Shadow
Shape / Outline - avoid skylining your body silhouette when ever on scouting or patrolling not just during the day, but even at night time. Even in a open field at night time, the outline of your body can be seen for a great distance, by someone who is at ground level watching, which is a normal fixed position for enemy snipers. When travel at night time be sure you travel at crawl level if traveling into unknown territory, so as to avoid becoming a easy target.
Color / Texture - avoid wearing any bright color clothing, this is why SBM wears darker shade of grey, in some cases charcoal grey is actually harder to see at night than solid black color, as the solid black outlines itself against a lighter dark background.
Shine - avoid wearing shiny watches, belt buckles, even knife blades that are shiny can give away position. In Urban combat situations muzzle blasts from guns can pin point location.
Movement - maintain a lower than usual walk, in hostile environments, crawling is safest, at a lower than "Fire Zone" level.
Noise - avoid traveling with keys jingling, metal rattling, loud talking, sneezing, etc.
Scent - avoid smells and scents like cologne, hand sanitizer, fresh shampooed hair, smoking cigarettes, the smoke will give away your close proximity, even food smells, like eating a bacon sandwich, can give away presence.

Anti-Stealth suit and blanket tactic, with laser pointer, must be in a squat position with laser pointer, start from below "Fire Zone" level gradually sweeping upwards up to the top of the "Fire Zone" level which is 6ft. Most incoming approach from someone wearing a Stealth suit will be at least crawl level. Using the reverse"Skylining" method for laser sweeping a field or street, is the best way to detect someone who might be crawling in their approach. Who is wearing a Stealth suit, or behind a Stealth blanket.

 
When defending a home or a building the "Fire Zone" combative tactics are still to be applied and considered into your planning. Getting above or remaining below the Fire zone is a top priority for a greater survival chances, in avoiding enemy fire.
Some of the inside planning should include "Rafter Works" which is creating a quick entrance and quick escape to and from the attic or second floor, through the use of a ladder or ladders. If no ladder is available, the 2X4's in the walls can be stripped out and nailed together to make ladders.
Getting above the Fire zone has many advantages, as well as surprise return fire position.
The use of dummy positions is also a priority, somethings to draw enemy fire away from your true position in the room or building.
The use of "Buffer zones" should also be applied, this would be a additional room between you and the entry way, that you can build a barrier of sandbags behind a wall in another room in the house, but still maintain your visual of the front door / entry way.
The use of "Loopholes" in the attic to fire down through, as not to give away your position as quick in the ceiling. Loopholes can be used as sniper positions in or outside return firing positions.

 Buffer zones that are set up in other rooms and upper rooms should have extra protected and unconventional means of entrance and exit, than doors for example, all doors should always be booby trapped. Holes in the floor are preferred choice for alternative means of entrance / exit.
Firing Loopholes should be made not just for external firing positions but internal inside the buildings as well. Firing upon enemy combatants in the hallway or coming down through the roof top, which will be the enemy's most common entrance point for large buildings.
Firing loopholes can be made for roof top positions to defend from rappelling drops.
As a part of your Post Apocalyptic crew's bag of tools should be pioneering tools for engineering such supportive positions. Like hammers, sledge hammers, drills, axes, saws, pry bars, wire cutters and bolt cutters, nails and wood screws. As barriers and fortified defensive positions will call for barb wire to barricade stairways, elevators, hallways, rooftops. Sandbags can be used for protective shielding from enemy fire. Also the use of water and water buckets should be considered for cooling off gun barrels after prolong use, might mean the difference in a barrel melting or warping it's shape.
Quick response to putting out the unexpected fires, that are common in combative situations, such as Molotov cocktails, flash bangs that can ignite other ammo and combustible materials, etc.
When defending a building or a home, if it is necessary to fire from a window, no other choice, you must avoid silhouetting your body outline in the window. The use of dark colored blankets, curtains, canvas, anything to put behind you as to avoid a lighter shade being behind you will help keep your position camouflaged. Never fire close to the window, this will also reveal your position, stand back at least 4 to 5 ft. from window, so even the muzzle blast from your guns will not be seen.
It is preferred however to use "Firing Loopholes" instead of windows, all the time.
Remember when moving past windows always duck and or crawl as to avoid being seen. When looking around corners if no equipment is available use a mirror, get down as low as you can to avoid "Fire Zone". For the new modern Urban combat tactics the use of Video Snakes are now common, to peek around corners, into other rooms, through windows, to spot enemy combatants and other dangers such as booby traps.

( Video Snake Equipment )

          "The future of urban warfare in the resistance movement, depends on how well the resistance can repel assaults from attack helicopters." - James the Bruce

 For the attack helicopters are the Government's ultimate response to a successful resistance in the urban combat setting. Quick in and out and heavy cover to shield from attack helicopters, 30mm rounds. Being aware of long range Snipers with 50 caliber rifles, must also be taken into consideration.
 ~Six Words~
   - President of SBM - James the Bruce

READINESS PREP DRILLS

                                                     

                                                       READINESS PREP DRILLS

                                                                                              by James the Bruce
( Disclaimer : It is not required or forced upon anyone to do these timed drills, extreme caution should be used while conducting any type of exercise or drill, we do not encourage anyone to conduct these exercises, you are acting alone and except full responsibility for your own actions if you. I James the Bruce nor Southern Brotherhood Militia do not accept any responsibility this article is just for educational purposes only.)

     Form > Follows > Function, you cannot be truly prepared unless you have actually practiced the plans to be set into motion upon a crisis event.

Most crucial part of "Prepping" is to be mentally and physically prepared to face panic situations.

To have multiple backup plans in place for possible set backs at every turn.

Family Day Wednesdays are the ideal time to practice, plan and prepare, with the whole family, extended family and even multiple family households who you know and can trust, to be included as a part of your family, for safety in numbers, but for a larger group(s)  there will be more time delays.
 Plan out and practice different crisis scenarios. Such as Storms : Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, etc. Power outages for long periods of time, EMP attack, nuclear attack, foreign Army invasion, civil unrest such as riots. Determine at your location and distance from the city or where ever you may live if there is anything that could pose as a danger or might be a target for terrorists, enemy foreign nations, such as power plants, nuclear plants of facilities, military bases or production facilities, large population areas. Then determine how much time you would have to respond for each scenario. For the crisis event to reach your home or neighborhood.

For each scenario there must be a set time of expectation for each crisis event to reach your area, such as ground zero for a nuclear attack, how far are you from the large population center or base, how much time would it take for the blast and gamma / beta rays to reach you and your family.
Calculate the speed / rate of travel of the identified threat(s) versus the distance it must travel to reach your area or community.

Timed test drills - figure out how much time it would take for these multiple households to come together at the designated Point of Rendezvous ( PR ). Will a secondary designated safety zone or safe house be need at a PR further out away from the city into the countryside.

Factors to be considered for each scenario are rather or not Underground shelter be needed or not.

In cases where Underground shelter will be needed are :

                                                                                            Tornadoes

                                                                                             Nuclear attack

                                                                                              War ( bombings )

                                                                                                Biological- Chemical attacks

Cases where Underground shelter may not be needed are :

                                                                                              Riots - Civil unrest

                                                                                               Epidemics - plagues, deadly virus

                                                                                                Storms - flooding

                                                                                                 Power outages

Staying put, where you are at such as your home, may sometimes be the wiser thing to do for various reasons. Such as you already have underground bunker, well fortified protection around your home, well built basement will large storage with large supply of food and water. You have good water resources available, that are from a reliable source.

If you are unable to determine where or what kind of threat is coming, or what direction it is coming from, it would not be wise to step out, just yet.

Timed test drills with the family each family member must be assigned roles, make it clear to them, that if and when a life and death situation ( crisis event ) that might arise, in order for everyone to survive they must do their part. They need to know how they must react and how they are evacuate from their normal daily routine, no matter where they are at the time they are alerted.

The family or families involved must take the planning, preparing and exercise drills seriously.

In order to figure out how much time it would take for multiple families to come together at the designated PR. It must first be determined on a single family household unit. Because it depends on each family member and how long it would take them to return home, which is the first PR ( Point of Rendezvous ).

One way to figure out how much time it would take them to return home during a normal day, would be to have each family member involved in the timed test drill, to wear a wrist watch with an alarm.

Set their alarms for a specific time, synchronize their watches to all go off at the exact same time, during the day of planned drill. Have them note where their exact locations are at the time the alarm goes off, determine, how much time from that point they would have to return home. If they are not at their normal location that they usually are in their normal day to day routine, make note and take it into consideration with your calculations.
Figure out ways to make short cuts by using shorter routes, such as streets and roads that would be short cuts, and off the main streets and roads that would be jammed with traffic if such crisis events did occur. Try to determine for each family member what can be done to shorten the time it takes for them to return home safely, without rushing. During these timed drills, normal speed and taken during reaction time must be strictly applied. Even in the crisis event, rushing and speeding may cause an accident, this will not only reduce return home time, they may not be able to return home at all, if they are not cautious every step of the way. ( SO PLEASE NO RACING OR SPEEDING )
Next, order all family members to stay put once they make it home, the home being the first Point of Rendezvous (PR). If someone leaves after they returned home, then it will be assumed by the others who return home, that they never made, when they may be out looking for them, if everyone is out looking for everyone is, all has been lost. So everyone must go directly home and stay put.
If someone doesn't return home, then only after the majority make it home, then it will be decided by the head of the household, if there is to be a search / rescue attempt, if there is one, then everyone else is to remain home just in case they do arrive later.
Each and every family member must be made aware of the "Family First" mindset, and they must agree to it. That there maybe personal consequences for delays, in reaction time, in crisis events.
Example : Don't try to look for friends to save before you head home or anything like personal material items ( belongings ) you want to save that are far away from their present location, before they head home.
The additional time will take them the save their personal belongings or best friend, may be the time needed to make a successful evacuation. They must beat the clock when it comes to evacuation, it's only a matter of minutes before the streets become packed with crowds other people trying to evacuate. Plus the time wasted might prevent the family as a whole from making their overall escape / evacuation, to a secondary location or safe zone / safe house.
Also back up plans must be made in the event the main organizer / head of household is unable to return home, for the others to go ahead with their main evacuation goals. These are known as Plan B drills, when the main lead or head of household is unable to be present.
Also the main roads and highways must be counted out as a route of evacuation, they more than likely will be jammed with traffic, so all back roads and dirt roads, must be looked at and studied as an escape route to a secondary PR location.

The difference between Lone Wolves and Wolf-Pack's role(s) during the crisis event will vary as well. Since the Lone Wolf is acting alone or the family household is reacting as a single unit, evacuation to a secondary safe zone, may not be always necessary, versus the Wolf-Pack household, where other households may have it planned to come together at a PR location set as a safety zone for a much larger group of people, to be organized at. In the case of the Wolf-Pack, where you have multiple family units coming together, the time will be extended and delayed because there are more family members involved and their chances of returning home to their first PR, more than likely will be interrupted. More families involved more chances of reduced reaction time, the risks are greater when more people are involved.
There is also the factor involved what if others in the community show up who are not invited, as planned, there will be additional food needed, because they will expect you to share your food, that you have already put back just for your family, calculated to be there for a length of designated time for only your family. There will be many set backs, that must be considered, in a crisis event.
We must be willing to be adaptable but sensible about the way we need to handle a crisis event step by step, we only get one chance to survive, each mistake might cost someone their life, or might even cost everyone's lives.  
Note: In the past the secondary PR location that we have used was generally a camp site at the closest State Park. Where you can set up a secure perimeter and pitch a tent or multiple tents.

   - "Keep yer head high & Never drop yer guard" - James the Bruce
   ~Six Words~  / ~6~

                                              

COUNTRYSIDE SURVIVAL VS. URBAN SURVIVAL

   There are pros and cons for both Countryside survival and Urban survival, people usually weigh the differences of what is important to them. The security and safety of having a community, that may help others when others are hungry or need help, protection. But the very same security and protection may become the main danger or threat. When others my seek what you have to help themselves or their crew. The new term for "Zombies" are people who will kill you for what you have, during or after a national crisis. Public drinking water is primary concern, there's plenty of it but will it be poisoned by terrorists or become unsafe to drink ?

The countryside has advantages as well, but there will be little to no help, if you need assistance of any kind. When others become the danger / threat it will be the best place to be, but when there is something critical needed like emergency medical assistance, there will not be any.

So how do you weigh the pros and cons and decide what is best for you ?

  In the Metropolitan areas, there will be more gangs and looters, rioting more risk of being attacked, so therefore your main concern in the larger populated areas is a defensive one.

No matter which one the countryside or the urban (rural) setting the first thing needed is to size up the situation see what the threat is and where is the threat / danger coming from.

Is it going to be long term or short term, is a factor. We will have to maintain shelter's cover underground or will it be safe to travel ? Then keep in mind will the crisis have the possibility of starting another crisis like a pandemic. What may be safe now may become a danger later. Planning to remain in the urban environment might be the best choice in the beginning, but later it may become the worst place to be. So you will have to always be flexible in your quest for survival.

  Fortification - for defensive tactics should be engaged for either environment.

There are Americans beginning the "Bubba Effect" already, where they intend on shacking up with big brother Bubba until everything has calmed down, and it's safe to go back home.

There are many people already planning the "Fortification" planning already, keeping the family out of harms way.

Food and Water -  Obtaining a large supply of food and water will be of upmost concern, most "preppers" this is their only concern at the moment is quick necessity items, and enough of it to supply the whole family for a long period of time.

  In cases of civil unrest, the populated areas will be more of a danger than a plus, so the countryside would be the best choice, however, we will always need the expertise of others, either medical or mechanical or other skills, you won't always be able to find in the countryside.

But when big brother wants to lockdown house on everyone or there is an attack from a foreign nation or army it will be a disadvantage. Being able to adapt quickly and remaining mobile is the key to survival in both environments, Comms is a must have, everyone having a HAM hand held radio would be wise, more than likely the cell phone towers will be jammed. Portable solar power charging devices to recharge the HAM radio batteries is also a plus.
So the idea of hunkering down for the long haul, maybe a very bad plan for your prepper /survival planning. To remain unorthodox in your planning is the best, remember everyone will be running to the hills, where there maybe plenty of traps waiting for you and your family. 

   ~ Six Words -   James the Bruce

HOME DEFENSE - SBM DEFENSE LOG

                                         HOME DEFENSE   -   SBM DEFENSE LOG
                                                             by James the Bruce

    The Home Defense is broke down into 2 categories Home Security and Home Defense.

Home Security -  LOW-TECH / HIGH-TECH - Is prevention and early warning detection, electronic surveillance. Video cameras outside / inside of home, motion sensors in front of doors and windows.

Low tech is placement of trip wires, beer can alarms in the backyard, inside of gates, guard dogs, etc.
The use of motion sensor lights, near doors and windows, for the outside of the home.
 Home Security - Inside the home, reinforce door frames, that serve as entrances / exits, install shatter proof sliding glass doors instead or keeping the regular sliding glass doors, make sure the sliding glass doors are stick / board wedged, so they can't be forced open. Install kick resistance plates, on the entrance door(s). Main goal of Home Security, to keep them from entering the home.

 Home Defense - + Precautions + Fallback Plans + Evacuation Routes + Alarms + Communications
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  Sirens and loud alarms, blasting will help deter robbers, home invaders, have Sirens and loud alarms placed throughout the house for easy access. Use of bright lights, keeping powerful LED tactical flashlights, stun guns, pepper spray around the house, a non-lethal option, if there are children in the house, is better than leaving loaded guns out laying around, but should still be out of reach for them.
 Training your children to be cautious and use safety, can never be a bad thing. They must have and show respect and be knowledgeable of dangerous weapons and to respect them, not to play around with them, but to handle them with extreme caution. It is also wise to teach your children fallback plans if there ever is an intruder, how to evacuate, sound alarms and call for help, using different sources of communications if needed, such as CB radios, HAM radios, cell phones, all available comms.
 Your weakest link may be your only salvation, if you are severely wounded, needing emergency responders. Safe rooms and secret make shift rooms, hidden for the children to seek cover.
If your budget doesn't allow you build a safe room, just a ground floor closet with cinder blocks stacked on the inside around the walls, or iron plates install at least 4 ft. high is an option. Considering you never want to be above the line of "fire zone", anyhow.

You never want to build or construct a safe room upstairs, first off if the threat is stray rapid gun fire entering the house, last thing you want to do is gather your loved ones and dog and run up the stairs, in the "field of fire zone". You should teach your children to dive on the floor, get low as possible, in such events. Rather it be at school, Walmart, church on Sunday or at home, they must learn to get on the floor quickly when they hear gun fire. The safe room must always be around where the family is majority of time when they are home, ground floor, easy, quick access from the living room and kitchen preferred. Be aware of natural protective appliances in the home that can serve as a shield, such as clothes washer and dryers, refrigerators, washer machine, etc. When bullets are flying, you must get low and dig in deep to whatever shield of protection is available. Even if you are not able to hide behind a clothes washer or dryer, just simply getting behind the wall that is directly behind them, can still serve as a shield. If the gun fire is coming from the street in front of the house.

 Build your own "defender shields" that are made from a strong metal plate, strong enough to repel multiple rounds of ammo. Build them big enough to cover the front of the body 3X4, 4x5, from a kneeling position, , have one for each family member. Have them strategically placed for quick access if ever needed in an emergency. Panic room / safe room is good storage place, but when an emergency happens and you're in the restroom, you may need it then already.

Keeping them parallel with the street out front is wise, since if there ever is a threat of stray gun fire entering the house, more protective shields up the better. Of course no one will want to set them up side by side in the living room, to be a protective barrier, but for all possible extremities, it would be the wisest location for them. Have guns strategically placed in the home, when you come home from work or from being out all day, it is always smart to do a "sweep" of your home for detection of intruders. It's not paranoia it's smart. Most people will be attacked first 5 ft. of their home upon entrance. But just in case, don't think your house is clear just because you don't see any signs of forced entrance.

  - TACTICS -

{Target Indicators }

Are as follows :

+ REFLECTIONS + MOVEMENT + SOUND + SHADOWS

A hand gun or stun gun and a defender shield be present when doing a sweep of your home.

Slicing the pie method, should be used, a low center of gravity stance, never just walk around corners, peek around the corner from back as far as possible.

 *Use of reflections - Strategically placed mirrors and glass picture frames in the hallway by the corners, to help assist you seeing around corners. If in the kitchen and you don't have any, use drinking glasses sitting around the house if any to assist with visual, anything that can produce a reflection should be looked at.

 *Movement around the house should be strategically planned as well, have easy pull out barriers, such as furniture and use of drop nets in the hallways to serve as barriers. Trip wire, cords, ropes, for the purpose of creating a barrier between you and the attacker(s).

 ^Picture above ( Caltrop spikes )

 Quick and easy access to caltrop spikes, if you are pursued up a flight of stairs, throwing caltrop spikes in the stairway will slow them down. Caltrop spikes will go through tactical boots, most shoes. It will stop their advance, while they are trying to avoid them, it will provide you the lapse of time needed to retaliate or escape. Even used in the hallways will stop them as well. Caltrop spikes should cover an area of at least 10-12 ft. so no one is able to simply jump over them.
Use of pepper spray, bright lights, stun guns, should be included in fallback plans, used in collusion with your movement.

Always have a evacuation route as well as a Plan B. Just in case you're not able to escape the premises.

 *Sound - The use of sirens and loud alarm noises, has it's advantages, not just as a defense but as a offense as well, if they can't hear your movement throughout the house, they are blind as far as where you are at, being compared to a silent house.

 *Shadows - The use of shadows, in a defensive situation is better than them being able to locate and aim for you. Creating dark places in your fallback plans, where you disable lights and switches, to shield your cover, should be used.
Always remember fire prevention is also critical, fire extinguishers, should always be available, in all the stand-offs in the past, where Patriots and Groups have been involved with Law Enforcement or the Federal Government. The people who are in the stand-offs always get burned alive, when their houses or compounds mysteriously catch fire.

   Six Words ~6~

by James the Bruce

President of Doomsday Sekt

                                                     ( Slicing the Pie ) method of engaging corners }

TIPS FOR THE LADIES

                         TIPS FOR THE LADIES : 

                                        by James the Bruce 

Be more aware than ever of your surroundings
1. Know where the security cameras are in parking lots such as Walmart, learn to stay in view of them.
2. Stay in well lit areas of parking lots when going inside stores at night....
3. Avoid going to convenient stores at night time - period.
4. Be aware of people hanging out on the sides the of buildings, where you are. Or sitting in their cars viewing everyone else going inside or coming out.
5. Never leave your car unlocked even if you are standing there pumping gas, next to the car.
6. Always assume the worst can happen at any time.
7. Never let anyone approach you or bum a ride.
8. Always be armed or have pepper spray ready and within arms reach, at all times.
The places you go can determine the security risks, such as going to convenient stores, ATM's.
9. After shopping at the mall always check under your car while approaching it, in West Texas, during Christmas time, thugs would wait for women under their cars and would slice their Achilles tendons then rob them.
Make sure you are never followed when coming out of a shopping center, turn around and go back in, if you do see a person following you, no shame in it.

10. Always remain in full view or other people when in areas like downtown at night time, never stray off into unknown areas alone, when walking, stay in crowds or in view of the public.
11. Always be aware of what can be used as a self defense weapon, something as small as a pocket full of regular pepper spice, that can be used to throw into the eyes of an attacker, could save your life. Or if it's night time you could use a high beam flashlight, to distract your attacker long enough to gain an advantage of either counter strike or head start with running away !
12. Loud devices or whistles are great, attackers do not want any attention to themselves or what they are doing, they want to remain silent, so anything that can make great disturbance of noise, should be used.
- PLEASE BE MORE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS !!!

~Six Words !!
- James the Bruce

ISLAM TO BE POLICE OVER CHRISTIANS BY DESIGN

Coming soon to America !
In Serbia, a Christian nation, Muslims migrated into Kosovo, claimed to be victims. United Nations and NATO swore the Muslim Terrorist Organizations into Law Enforcement as Police Officers over the Christian population. In return these Terrorists were given open reign on all Christians in the region. Bombed their churches and beheaded Priests and other Christians, under NATO control.
KLA has changed it's name to ROSU, Terrorist Organization, made attempts to attack US Military bases here in the US. Are now playing the role of Police Officers in Kosovo, backed by NATO, and has murdered 3,000+ Serbians under NATO's control .
Emboldened by the knowledge it could achieve its political objectives by terror, the KLA moved into southern Serbia and initiated, under the eyes of 40,000 NATO troops, a campaign of terror against the Serbian population.- The United Nations and NATO deputized the Muslim Terrorist groups UCK and KLA as Police Officers, where they continued their slaughter of Serbian Christians in Kosovo while acting as Policemen !
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BIS111A.html