Monthly Archives: May 2012

Defense: More Concepts To Take Into Consideration

Posted on 30/05/2012 by Treaded

Rainy weather is giving me a little slack time so I’m back at it today – and please excuse me for crappy art I’m not an artist.  In the last entry we examined the immediate zones (A through C) and … Continue reading →

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Defense: Homestead Case Study – Back to Terrain Pt.2

Posted on 29/05/2012 by Treaded

In the last entry I oriented you to our notional homestead and we dissected a threat based zone system along with identifying what/how the threat could move and observe in our immediate Area of Operations (AO).  The zone system is … Continue reading →

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Defense: Homestead Case Study – Back to Terrain Pt.1

Posted on 25/05/2012 by Treaded

I know a lot of you have been waiting for this and I’ve gotten a lot of emails asking when I was going to get into the nuts and bolts of building a homestead defense plan.  This is going to … Continue reading →

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Defense: Applying Logical Processes In Planning and Execution of Homestead Defense

Posted on 23/05/2012 by Treaded

Before I start getting neck deep into physical and procedural measures we can take to defend the old homestead I feel that a brief overview of tactical thinking is probably in order.  At this point we are primarily concerned with … Continue reading →

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SA: Timing is Everything

Posted on 17/05/2012 by Treaded

Via WRSA comes THIS excellent piece from Selco @ SHTF School. Relevance?  Remember those urban areas are where it’s most likely to start.

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Defense: Setting Your Priorities

Posted on 17/05/2012 by Treaded

  In the last entry I explored a few ways to save a buck while building up your supplies of defensive materials – that good old Class IV.  Now when it comes to defense planning and prepping there’s a million … Continue reading →

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Defense: (Almost) Free Stuff – Or How I’m A Cheap Bastage

Posted on 15/05/2012 by Treaded

I’m a cheap bastage.  I’ll put that out there right up front.  Don’t get me wrong – I’ll spend good money for a good product.  But if I can get what I need through something like some good old fashioned … Continue reading →

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OPSEC: It Begins With You

Posted on 14/05/2012 by Treaded

I’ve been hammering OPSEC during the Blog so far and these next few entries aren’t going to be any different.  I believe OPSEC is the key to many things – but first and foremost it’s a basic key element of … Continue reading →

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Threat: When Do We Start To Sweat?

Posted on 13/05/2012 by Treaded

First off if you ain’t sweating already then you’re likely still asleep so maybe the question should really be “When do we really start sweating?  If the Who part didn’t wake you up then I dunno what will.  Anyway in … Continue reading →

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Threat: What are We Dealing With?

Posted on 12/05/2012 by Treaded

In the last entry we established a focus area to narrow down our intelligence gathering efforts on four types of threats which gave us our “Where”.  Those four types of threats and a little research gives us our “Who”.  Now … Continue reading →

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