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Sid's R.E.A.D.Y. Book Review
CONTACT! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
by Max Velocity
ISBN-13: 978-1478106692
Publisher: CreateSpace www.createspace.com
Publication date: 2012
Sid’s R.E.A.D.Y. SCALE 1=Low 5=High
Readability: Literary style and ease of assimilation
Educational : Utility of the information
Accuracy: Fact or conjecture, opinion or consensus.
Detail: Depth of information. Are the nuts & bolts of the concepts present?
Yes Factor: Overall rating
The author Max Velocity (not his real name) is an ex-U.S. and U.K. armed forces member. He served with British Special Operations Forces. Per the authors bio: The author served on six operational deployments, including to Afghanistan immediately post-9/11, and also a tour training and selecting recruits for the Regiment. In explaining what the Parachute Regiment is, it is easiest to compare it in role to the 75th Ranger Regiment, although it is of course its own unique and elite force. He retired from the British Army in 2003. Following retirement, the author spent five years serving as a security contractor in both Iraq and Afghanistan. This included working on contract for the U.S. government in Iraq– a year of which was based out of Fallujah, the rest variously based out of Baghdad and country-wide. He also spent two years working for the British government in Helmand Province and Kabul, Afghanistan. These roles were operational security roles that included exposure to multiple different training methods and operational schools of thought, as well as both high profile and low profile mobile operations across Iraq and Afghanistan. The author then joined the U.S. Army and trained as a Combat Medic and Civil Affairs Specialist. He is a U.S. citizen and lives in the United States.
CONTACT! Offers the novice both basic and advanced military-based strategies for enhancing survivability in a post-event or societal collapse environment. This book is not suitable for children, due to theme. This is the second edition, revised and expanded with numerous blog posts that embellish the material from the first edition. There is considerable discussion across the Internet, blogs, and forums as to the utility of these techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTP). There are those that firmly believe that all one needs to do for training is to attend and participate in an Appleseed Course or take a Tactical Firearm Training course to learn advanced firearm handling, target acquisition, shooting on the move, et cetera from Front Sight, Thunder Ranch, Gunsite Academy, Vickers Tactical or any of the hundreds of trainers around the U.S. Proponents of each are adamant in their defense of their chosen path. Others still will stand by their years of experience hunting and strongly feel that’s all they need come SHTF. My thoughts are that all of the above methods have their benefits, and one would be well-served to take advantage of them all. However, to discount the value of the TTP’s in Contact! would be, IMHO, a prime example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect or as they say, “You don’t know what you don’t know”.
Source: http://www.survivalblog.com/2014/02/sids-ready-book-review.html
