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Fight Back: Tackling Terrorism, Liddy Style

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An excellent summary of solutions for terrorism and other security issues. A very easy to read, useful, and common sense guide. The medical response guide is especially comprehensive. None of the usual Liddy rhetoric much more about helping yourself in an emergency. It will make you and your family feel much, much safer, and is a must for small business owners and security professionals alike.

Like most, my family is my top priority. And, like many in this post 9/11 environment, I want to know what I can do to protect my family. The book provides a macro overview of global threats to the country, as well as a list of personal safety tips that are useful in every day life. I was frankly surprised that Liddy wrote such a useful, practical book. Not like him and likely a reflection of the influence of his co-authors. Great read!

Like Liddy or not...this book is a must in everyone's home library.
Easy read. Great advice. Presents the problems with plenty of solutions.

I really Like Mr Liddy and was hoping that this book would give me more of the Liddy Style, but it was full of things that you could get over the internet. I wanted to see more things that one could do to protect ones self, as I thought Mr Liddy could share. The book has many good generic tips. I just wanted to read more things that Mr Liddy and his son could tell us that could be found no where else. I felt the book fell a bit short.

Gordon Liddy offers a tremendous resource in workplace, home and personal security with Fight Back.

Of particular interest was the section on Personal Security. While comprised primarily of common sense details and specifics, it serves as a step-by-step blueprint for areas that may have been overlooked due to the myopia of daily living.

With its impressive array of co-authors, Fight Back is a "must have" for security conscious Americans everywhere.

Liddy does a great job in letting you know not only what's at jeopardy but why.He spells out what a terrorist will strike,and how and why a terrorist will go after certain things.It's not a matter of if terrorist will strike,but when and where.

I've read some of the reviews and I picked up on a couple of themes: 1) Redundant information, available on the web; and, 2) designed for CEOs.

Both can be true if you limit the information that way, but I'd ask two questions.
How many people have read http://ready.gov?
How many people are aware that the same situational awareness that applies to CEOs applies to all of us?

This book doesn't claim to be the "be all, end all" of personal security or define everything applicable to everyone, as is evidenced by bibliography and references. It defines threats, backgrounds and considerations for personal preparedness. It suggests that we are the first responders for our own personal safety, suggests the same prudent recommendations apply to non-CEOs, and provides appropriate responses to known threats.

My only regret is that practice is not stressed as much as awareness. Shelter in place covers what is required, but does not seem to stress the drill. How long will it take you to seal off? Did you miss anything? What personal modifications for shelter in place do you need? How long does it take you to accomplish this? What did you miss the first time you tried?

If you don't practice, you won't know until it counts. That's too late.

Terrorism ain't just for CEOs anymore. This book has excellent information not covered in the press, prudent responses, and prudent preparations. My only suggestion is practice. It enables personal adaptation of the information provided.

This book is written in a tone that's surprisingly mild without a heavy dose of panic. It is rather factual in nature making some rather fundamental comments about personal security. Many of these, removing tree branches that might be used to allow entry to your house through an upstairs window, clearing shrubs from around your house, keeping a battery powered radio (with fresh batteries) around make good sense where there are terrorists involved or not.

The first half of the book on knowing how terrorists organize, think, and act is quite interesting. He also discusses several organizations, some of which (Al Qaida) pose a definite threat to the US, some (Hamas) haven't operatee in the United States, some (Black Panthers) are basically defunct.

One thing that I was expecting because of the title was a recommendation to keep a gun at home. Out here in the west everybody (nearly) has a gun. I was surprised at this knowing a little about Liddy's reputation.

There are a couple of errors in the book. For instance there is a comment about using duct tape to seal your house. He says that FEMA recommends tape that has a minimum of ten millimeters (0.01 in). Ten millimeters is nearly a half inch. That's pretty thick for tape.

A final comment. Much in this book is good advice. It makes sense if there is a terrorist threat or simply a hurricane like Katrina. On the other hand, to concentrate on the terrorist threat doesn't make all that much sense. 9/11 killed about 3,000 people. That's about how many people are killed each and every month by driving accidents. But a book on driving accidents wouldn't be of much interest.

I found it geared more toward CEO's of large corporations that need protection rather that the common individual.

This book offers nothing that hasn't been written elsewhere. I was very surprised how basic and rudimentary the information in this book is considering the authors experience.

I would pass on this one. Unless you know absolutely nothing about security you won't pick up any new information from this book.