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Prepper's Home Defense: Security Strategies to Protect Your Family by Any Means Necessary Paperback – December 18, 2012

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DETER . DELAY. DEFEND!
Does your disaster preparation plan include security measures? When civilization fails and the desperate masses begin looting, they will come for your food, water and life-sustaining supplies. This book shows you how to implement a complete plan for operational security and physical defense, including:
• Perimeter Security Systems and Traps
• House Fortifications and Safe Rooms
• Secured and Hidden Storage
• Firearms and Defensive Combat Techniques
• Gathering Intelligence and Forming Alliances

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"Two things I especially like about the book are that it is realistic and that I couldn't find any really bad advice....I feel Cobb tells readers what they should hear which is a credit to him." -- Charlie Palmer, Author of THE PREPPER NEXT DOOR

"Prepper's Home Defense has earned a place on my bookshelf by giving me the information I needed to go home and put in place some security procedures and equipment that made my home more secure the day I read the book." -- Stephanie Dayle, American Preppers Network

"I like this book because it simply addresses security issues which are of concern in preparedness circles, and also because even after twenty five years of prepping, it gave me some additional perspectives especially in the areas of structure hardening, safe rooms, and communications.... Jim Cobb gets my wholehearted recommendation for this book." -- RationalPreparedness.blogspot.com

"Jim does a great job in laying out the options and helping the reader wade through all of the available weapons choices. I especially liked his improvised 'hand-spike' fashioned from a hub cap removal tool.... If you like reading about prepping - especially defense - you will like this book. It's a great compilation of security strategies to help protect your 'fort' and 'family'...." -- Creek Stewart, Willow Haven Outdoor

"Starting from with basic concepts, he has put together a solid work for evaluating your home from a defensibility perspective and explains what items are necessary to have for both survival and defense." -- ReadingRoomBookReviews.com

About the Author

Jim Cobb is a disaster readiness expert and owner of DisasterPrepConsultants.com. He has been a prepper for most of his life and has worked almost twenty years in the security management and investigation fields. Jim formerly wrote The Frugal Prepper column in Survivalist Magazine and currently writes a daily blog for Survival-Gear.com. Jim's primary home online is found at SurvivalWeekly.com. He lives and works in the Upper Midwest, sequestered in a fortified bunker with his lovely wife and their three adolescent weapons of mass destruction.

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Series: Preppers
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Ulysses Press; unknown edition (December 18, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1612431151
ISBN-13: 978-1612431154
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 307 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #12 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Home Improvement & Design > How-to & Home Improvements > Security
- #122 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Disaster Relief
- #215 in Books > Reference > Survival & Emergency Preparedness

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This book is going on my survival shelf

August 10, 2016

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I'm a bit of a suburban prepper, and also a writer. I grew up around guns, am a member of my local CERT team and also an ARES volunteer ham radio responder (that's backup-radio for the police-fire-rescue during a disaster), and am also a blackbelt in karate, so I'm familiar with Jerry Ahern (the person who wrote the foreword) and also the fact you need to get your survival information from a reliable source. So before I wrote a story that involves a post-apocalyptic scenario, I wanted to make sure I had my facts straight as the survival scenario in my silly fictional story may be the only information one of my readers may have rattling around in the back of their heads if T.S.H.T.F.

Everything in this book jived with what I already know from rubbing elbows with our local Emergency Response personnel. Jim Cobb clearly spelled out which home defense tactics you should already have in place in the 'normal world,' versus which ones you might have to beef up quickly (but might cause an otherwise unacceptable safety risk or be illegal) should certain kinds of prolonged disaster occur. Most of his focus is on the latter, how to come together and take those extra steps in a hurry.

For many people, having to think about these kind of things may seem disturbing. We all want to believe nothing bad will happen, the police will always be there, our country has the best military in the world and they will always keep us safe. But I learned from the Emergency Responders and FEMA, and also the MARS people we drill with that it won't take a zombie-virus like happened in The Walking Dead to cause a major interruption which might put your family at risk. Most Emergency Management personnel are obsessed about how badly stretched our public resources are, and that we have certain horrific vulnerabilities, such as our lingering dependence on imported oil, or our lengthy supply chain which stretches all the way into Asia. As we saw for a few weeks after 9-1-1, when the federal government clamped down on flights and also interstate truck traffic on the highways; or after Hurricane Katrina which not only took out New Orleans, but also one of our major imported oil refineries, it doesn't take a massive country-wide emergency to cause major interruptions in our lifestyle. Why not be prepared and at least 'know what you don't know.'

Lots of good stuff here for my post-apocalyptic novel! Be sure to read Jim Cobb's write-up on how you teach your kids to respond to bullying in the 'normal' world can make the difference in how well they survive in an emergency! It jives with my kid's karate training. It's a nice touch you don't usually see in these kinds of books, how to teach the survival instinct to your kids without going overboard.

P.S. - Suburban Prepper = an ordinary suburban-type family who takes extra steps to secure their family's safety, such as visiting the F.E.M.A. website to create their recommended '72-hour-kit,' makes sure they have a written Family Emergency Plan for a variety of probable emergency scenarios in their area, drills that plan once in a while with the kids to make sure everybody remembers what to do/who to call/where to meet, and makes sure to keep a 6-week buffer of extra food, cash and supplies on hand, knows how to grow a garden, and has a Plan B for when the power goes out for an extended period of time. Suburban Preppers don't drill with militias in the mountains, but they comprehend other people don't act very nice when an emergency happens and the police/emergency personnel get overwhelmed.

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Good value: About as good an starting overview as can be expected in the space given

December 29, 2014

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Good start for overview, not deep, not detailed in discussion, but you are pretty well off if you take this as a starting point, and do plenty of research and thinking about what the author has stated. For example the author correctly states that any defense can be overcome by attackers well motivated and with lots of time. That's true, but the author doesn't give details to support that. You'll have to think it through yourself, but you're likely to keep reading and get into the rest of the topics of the book....One book, "Doomsday Marauders" goes into the attackers/bad guys perspective which is very under represented in this market. We all want to build a castle....

Have a fallback position, prepare to be mobile, and ideally have a support network of neighbors you can communicate with and who will come to your aid if you get trapped.

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Mr.Babalou

Good book to look into when preparing to defend your ...

September 6, 2016

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Good book to look into when preparing to defend your home during a disaster, exploring dynamics and roles ,and sets the ground work for alot things you need to do. Regardless if your in a 200 acre farm or a 200 sqUare foot apartment.

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Enjoyed Reading....

September 25, 2015

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I review self help and other books as a side job for other websites. This author makes reading easy and enjoyable. He's relatable as if he's in your head, sometimes he says things you know you've thought but wouldn't say out loud. Me and especially my husband are not Prepper's but my husband found himself drawn to this book and began to talk about applying the advice in this book possibly in the near future..That says a lot for the logic that this book must hold, where is my husband has little tolerance for anything but logical....

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smitty55

Covers it all

June 23, 2014

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Step by step. Each are of concern addressed clearly and gives you something to think about. From what you'll need to think about should the worst happen. Covers food and how to stash it. How to protect your family from those that would do them harm. Dogs and which breed would fit your needs based on YOU and your family. Weapons, hand to hand, set up radios to keep in touch with those you wish to keep in close contact with. Set up a watch schedule, how to set up early detection devises, so you'll know someone is coming without them knowing that you are aware of them, SURPRISE is the element we all want on our side. EVERYTHING... I can not think of an area that was left out. Glad I bought the book, very glad.
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U.S.Marine Corps (retired)

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Mike

Decent book

September 16, 2016

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This book presents a mostly high-level overview of things to consider for home/retreat defense. If one has done any moderate reading in this area, this book is probably redundant. That being said, the book does present things to consider in each topic that a person may have not considered--I learned a few new aspects to consider. If one only gets one good idea from the book, it is worth the read.

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doc rich

The ins and outs of home defense

August 15, 2018

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Nothing at all wrong with the book. In fact he presents very realistic possibilities. The thing is at the age of 70 how I am too old to be digging a trench or diving in to one. If you are in your thirties you can do all the stuff recommended by this book.
Thanks Doc Rich

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CJHoffman

Seems to be a well thought - out book...

April 17, 2017

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I have not read this yet, but skimming through, it's amazing the things you DON'T think about when prepping. From perimeter defense to firearms to excursion advice, this book has a lot of info in its 221 pages. I'll update if I can, once I read it.

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