Welcome to My Blog: Fieldcraft, Survival, and Security

Fieldcraft can be described as the techniques used when living, traveling, or making military or scientific observations in the field, while employing stealth, camouflage, and evasion to remain undetected. Fieldcraft skills include land and water navigation, understanding the difference between concealment from view and cover from small arms' fire, using the terrain and its features to mask ground movement, obstacle crossing, selecting good shooting positions, camp sites, locations for effective observation, and counter-surveillance and SERE techniques.

Survival involves the knowledge and skills used in situations where modern conveniences and infrastructure don't exist or where that infrastructure has been severely damaged. Although survival skills are often thought of in the context of the techniques needed when lost or stranded in wilderness and remote areas; survival skills also apply to urban or populated locations, especially when those urban or populated locations are in hostile and non-permissive areas.

Security consists of those preventive measures taken to mitigate hostile actions directed against us. One of the most serious obstacles to personal security today is an attitude of complacency or fatalism. "It can't happen to me" and "if it's going to happen there is nothing I can do about it" is dangerous thinking. Recent political events throughout the world have changed - but certainly not diminished - the threats that we face. A criminal or terrorist attack against you or your family can happen at any place and at any time, as can a natural disaster, or civil unrest that disrupts the infrastructure that surrounds us. However, you can influence what happens to you and your family by assuming personal responsibility for your own safety and security.

This blog is not focused on any particular country or region of the world. It will most likely contain information and resources from many different places. As such, techniques and items that may be legal in one place may be proscribed in another. If you are concerned about such things, be sure to check your local laws to ensure that you remain in compliance. 

Also, this is a personal blog not associated with any government, agency, or corporation. Links to external products or sites, if included, are because I found that thing useful or interesting. What you read here is my personal opinion and commentary. I plan to write the majority of this blog in the English language, but may also, from time-to-time, include comments and resources in Russian, Norwegian, and German.

So, welcome and thank you for visiting my blog as we discuss fieldcraft, survival, and security.