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With winter just around the corner, people's thoughts are turning to cold weather. For some, that might mean winter sports, such as skiing and ice skating; but for most of us, it means keeping ourselves warm, no matter what Old Man Winter might throw at us. According to the Farmer's Almanac, this is supposed to be an unusually cold winter, so we might want to be sure we are ready. Of course, modern society doesn't have much of a struggle with cold weather. We heat our homes, our cars, our offices and even our sports arenas, just to keep ourselves...

The world we live in is full of harsh environments, places where survival is difficult. For the most part, people avoid those areas, although that isn't always possible. When it is necessary to enter them, extra precaution must be made, in order to avoid any risk. By and large, the knowledge we have as survivalists and the precautions we routinely take to ensure our survival are enough, even in these harsh environments. But some environments create special hazards, which normal precautions are not sufficient to protect us from. In those cases, we need to ensure that we take the right...

Survival situations can occur for a number of reasons. Maybe your plane crashed, you survived and now you must find your way back to civilization. Another scenario is some kind of natural disaster has ripped through your part of the country and life has been turned upside down and inside out and you are in a survival situation. Those are relatively serious, but tame scenarios that are not full of malice. You are fighting Mother Nature and the elements to survive—not other humans. In another kind of scenario that is likely to occur after the world has suffered an economic...

The idea of building a survival team is nothing new. I’ve seen many an article written about how to put a team together and even written a few myself. Most of those focus on the various skills that you need in a team, without really going a whole lot farther. But when I look at the various survival teams that I know, I realize that there’s a huge gap between what people think their survival team needs to be and what it really needs to be. To start with, a survival team isn’t just about skills, it’s about people working...

Most people's home defense strategy is a bit haphazard and even a bit thin. About the farthest that the average person takes it is coming up with the weapons they are going to use and practicing a bit with them. But as for a detailed plan for dealing with attackers or intruders, that's sadly lacking. We need go no farther than the military to see the value of developing a comprehensive strategy for dealing with attacks. Every military organization in the world spends countless hours designing and perfecting strategies for attack and defense and then training their soldiers to perfection...