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For many individuals, as well as for many agencies, “a” way to do something becomes “the” way to do it—the only way. Once we learn something and really adopt it as our own, it can be difficult to change.

This is particularly true at law enforcement agencies. One generation of instructors selects the next generation from those who have best learned and internalized the way they were taught. As this process continues, concepts, tactics and techniques harden into, “The way…

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“The enemy is everywhere! Every man, every woman, even children! The enemy’s everywhere! Their faces look out of doorways. The white faces behind the curtains, listening. We have beaten them, we have won everywhere, and they wait and obey, and they wait. Half the world is ours. ... The reports — everything in hand. Conquered countries cheer our soldiers, cheer the new order. ... What do the reports say about us? Do they say we are cheered, loved, flowers in…

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OK, I’m mad as hell and can’t take it any more.

I’ve reached my limit of bull droppings or whatever euphemism you might use for the loads of utter nonsense being thrown around these days in the field of preparedness under the guise of God’s honest truth.

Of course, it’s great that such an ocean of information exists, but the signal-to-noise ratio has increased exponentially as interest in being prepared has likewise gone through the roof.

I’ve recently been doing…

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How prepared are you for a natural disaster? Or an unnatural disaster, for that matter? This being S.W.A.T. Magazine, I’m sure you have sufficient firepower to get you through urban riots, widespread social unrest, or even the zombie apocalypse.

But would you die of thirst before the zombie apocalypse got well underway? Would your family go hungry if storms, strikes, or government edicts cut off food supplies? Would you die from a minor wound because you couldn’t keep it clean?…

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