Without Rule of Law: Advanced Skills to Help You Survive

"Without Rule of Law: Advance Skills to Help You Survive" is geared the prepper wanting to develop the skills needed for acquiring food and other provisions during a prolonged period where the infrastructure is not able to provide a steady supply of basic goods. This book teaches proactive strategies that will be less useful to those with military training, but would be a good starting point of the "common" prepper.I'll say up front that this is not an easy book for me to review since it moves out of my prepping comfort zone of planning to "bug in" for as long as possible and then "bug out" when my stockpile of stores are nearly depleted. The strategies and methods include concepts such as "breaking and entering" and raiding other survivors supplies. The moral considerations aside, the planning and advice provide will almost certainly be useful if those actions should be required. The author recognizes that no book can predict the exact circumstances that may exist in a given area, so most of the thought process is centered on planning in advance, acquiring the required tools, scouting, and developing the skills and strategies before they are needed. The writing style was easy to follow and the inclusion of helpful illustrations made some of the points easier to grasp, but could have benefited from additional pictures.This is a good starting point and a useful addition to my growing library of prepper books.Recommended, with the caveats above.CFH

Without Rule of Law is an excellent book that covers areas of prepping and survival that most books don't even come close to touching on. This book assumes that most of your perfect plans did not work out. Your stockpiles might have been destroyed, stolen, abandoned etc, and you now have to rely on your skills rather than supplies.Building skills is really what this book is focused on. It contains important lessons, that center on the four important skills of Hiding, Evasion, Scavenging, and Infiltration. It does contain some limited gear recommendations, but encourages the reader to find out what works for them. The book stresses actually getting out there, and practicing the things learned. Finding out for yourself what actually works.Each section has a short lesson plan that gives you useful information about the topic. Suggests some specific gear that may be helpful and then challenges you with certain exercises. These exercises are simple in the beginning such as preparing a meal over an open fire. They build up to full scale exercises where all your learned skills will be utilized.A notebook of self made notes is suggested. It is in this notebook where you will record the valuable lessons discovered while going through the suggested exercises. Things like what did you use? How long did it take? Were you able to complete tasks in night and all conditions? What worked? What didn't?Along the way the reader will gain a clear understanding of developing plans in a systematic way. Developing 1st 2nd and 3rd line gear, and what is contained in each. Various camouflage and evasion principles for both urban and wilderness terrain. Weapon selection. Methods of scavenging, infiltrating, and looting to gain needed resources. Most importantly, by following the exercises the reader will clearly assess current skills sets, and determine where improvement is most critical.Without Rule of Law is not a book that tells you everything you need to know. It is rather, a book that guides you to learn for yourself. It encourages action. In fact, if you're unwilling to participate, then it would have little to offer you. It is essentially a self study course in the above topics. Often the lessons learned from experience are the most valuable, and that's what is encouraged in this book.Bottom line, this is an excellent book that fills a niche not covered by most other survival or prepping materials. The exercises are well worth the time and effort to complete, and I highly recommend it.

READ ME: Preppers Guide to Stealth & EvasionThis book "Without Rule of Law: Advanced Skills Help You Survive" by Joe Nobody is targeted toward Preppers with limited to intermediate skill level. However this book is an excellent refresher to the experienced Prepper. Some of the reviewers have stated that this book is just a rehash of military manuals and knowledge. Respectfully, I would disagree, as this book does cover some military related tactics, techniques and procedures; however these are not cut and paste vignettes. It is true that you may find some of this information in some military manuals, but not distilled of military jargon for the layman and regurgitated into the Prepper perspective for immediate use. To me some of the highlights of this book include Chapter 7 "How to Hide", chapter 8 "How to Evade" and chapter 10 "How to Scavenge" all of which add interesting insight to these topics from the civilian/Prepper perspective. Additionally, the information as presented in this book would be hard to find in any military related manuals. Overall, I personally did not find any new revelations in this book, however this is not a bad thing as I have 23 years of military special operations background. But for the civilian Prepper with limited military know-how this book is an excellent introduction to the skill-sets. I personally would recommend this book to others looking to expand their survivability when the grid goes down.

I can see where people would take issue with the morality of some instructions given in this book. For people that have lived on the edge a little it will make more sense.If your reading it and thinking, “I don’t think I could do that.” Well, when your children are starving, need medicine, etc. that’s the mind set you need to read this book with.

First off, I know many people see this work as a "Guide to WROL Looting". In some ways it is.It shows you the sort fo skills people will need to succeed and survive in a true WROL world, but it does not tell you to use those lessons immorally. It shows you what an organized and capable individual under those conditions will be capable of (great stuff to consider in your own planning), it makes you consider what you may have to do (for one reason or another) if you find yourself in a world WROL, and how to assess and fit in the environment around you.The skills and such talked about in this source are not just for survivalists, hard core bunker sitters, potential looters, and wanna be types either. It is a useful planning and exercise resource right now.The security concerns (both assessing and taking advantage of) addressed are very valuable. The discussion of loadouts will be very useful to some people (especially those without patrol or hunting experience). The discussion and exercises relating to moving (and not) unseen will be very useful to everyone from those who simply want to be left alone to people interested in bird watching, hunting, photography and other such pursuits.All in all, a very useful text, and especially so when taken with his previous work.

The book was a good read, a little on the fear-mongery side of things but some creative thinking/writing overall.I'm a little bit surprised at how many spelling/grammar errors made it through the editing process - damages the credibility of the material imo.