Правила Миши (Misha's Rules)

Do Not Get Caught!

Be Prepared & Have a Plan. ~ Have a Backup Plan!

Always Carry a Knife (or two) and Know How to Use It.
In his book All-In Fighting, W.E. Fairbairn wrote: "The knife in close-quarter fighting is the most deadly weapon to have to contend with. It is admitted by recognized authorities that for an entirely unarmed man there is no certain defense against a knife." The knife, in trained hands, can be a very effective and deadly means of personal protection. In the hands of a criminal it can also be a very deadly means of assault. While any knife may be used for personal protection, a knife specifically designed for fighting is the best choice for the person who chooses to carry a knife for protection. Rex Applegate wrote in Kill of Get Killed: "When a man has a weapon which he knows is designed for fighting alone and has been trained in its use, he immediately develops a sense of confidence in it that he will never feel toward the utility knife. His fighting knife takes on a definite personal characteristic. He carries it with him at all times, he sharpens it often, and he will regard it as a very necessary part of his personal equipment." If you need a knife for utility purposes then carry a utility knife or a multi-tool, but let your personal protection knife be a dedicated fighting knife.

Never be unarmed! Be skilled with your weapons, for you never know when you may have need of them.

• In the Hávámal, Odin specifically instructs men never to go about unarmed, as a man will never know when he will meet danger, and have need of a weapon... So consider the following - if you can, be armed always. Yes...I know. But consider the implications. Of those who died facing an armed attack, how many would have willingly disobeyed unconscionable laws in order to stay alive?
  
• And stabbing a man to death is an exercise in extreme violence. It is violent and sudden and what the body does in its final moments will shock you...maybe, if you haven't gotten your mind right about such matters.
  
• Skill with your hands, and with knives is important. Because you might not have your pistol... but you can always have or get a knife. And if you have a knife, you can always get a pistol. Consider this deeply.
  
• Always carry a reload... and a knife. Need we say anything more. Learn to reload without thought and learn to draw the blade the same way.
  
• Learn to shoot accurately at distance. One may not always be able to have a rifle at hand, but with practice one can develop skill with a handgun to engage the rifleman.
  
• More ammo is better. You can't kill the bad guys if you run out.
  
• Be generous with your shooting. One shot is the same price as ten shots, so if you are going to shoot someone who is trying to kill you, do not be a miser with your ammo. It will be better for you if you win and he does not, and as a result, your story is the only one heard.
  
• If You Are Armed... If You Are Decisive Enough... If You Are Accurate Enough... If You Are Violent Enough... when someone crashes through your gate and opens up with an AK-47, the answer to this problem is at hand. If you allow yourself to be unarmed because of some law, policy, or regulation... then you just die. Never be unarmed! Be skilled with your weapons, for you never know when you may have need of them.

If you're not shooting, you should be loading. If you're not loading, you should be moving. If you're not doing any of these, someone's going to cut your head off and put it on a stick.

Employ counter-surveillance techniques during your daily travel.  If you find that you are being followed, cause the hunters to become the hunted.

If somebody's trailing you, make a circle, come back onto your own tracks, and ambush the folks that aim to ambush you.
Make it extremely dangerous for anyone to pursue you. Circle back and ambush them. Set booby-traps along your trail. Lead your pursuers into dangerous areas and kill them.

Have a ‘Go Bag’ packed and be ready to travel on a moment’s notice.
When it’s time to go, grab your bag and head for the border. Have everything necessary to travel internationally or drop out of sight for several days. This includes having a current passport, visas, and enough cash to avoid having to make electronic transactions.  

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. 
When you're right, paranoia is just good thinking. The question isn’t whether you’re paranoid, but whether you are paranoid enough.

Think internationally. Borders are just lines on a map.
We all have our own nationalities, cultures, and countries of origin. Keep faith and allegiance with your own, but don’t overlook what is offered by other nations, cultures, and societies. Adopt that which is useful.

Learn Foreign Languages
Notitia linguarum est prima porta sapientiae.
Learning a foreign language not only reveals how other societies think and feel, what they have experienced and value, and how they express themselves, it also provides a cultural mirror in which we can more clearly see our own society. Being multi-lingual allows you to travel more freely, and lets you blend into other societies more completely. More than one language makes you more than one person. 

There is a tremendous difference between shooting methods that work well when you're simply trying to put holes in the target and those that work well when the target is trying to put holes in you. Failing to understand this difference is a mistake that will get you killed if you ever have to use your handgun in a real armed confrontation.
There will be no warnings, no posting and challenging, only recognition of threat and escalation of violence. Learn to shoot faces and necks at room distances. Yes, there is a chance you will be killed by the terrorist...but you will be killed anyway. And how do you want to look for the Crime Scene photos? Under a desk hiding with a terrified look on your face and a back full of 7.62x39 rounds, or a smiling corpse on a mountain of brass and dead terrorists? I pray if I am given that choice I will be the guy in the second image. But....but, you might not be either one. You might survive and win if you are decisive enough, accurate enough, and violent enough. Let us all be those things.

If You Think It's The FSB - It Is!
Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (ФСБ)

Remember the ‘Moscow Rules’

• Assume nothing.
• Always listen to your gut; it is your operational antennae. 
• Everyone is potentially under opposition control.
• Don’t look back; you are never completely alone.
• Go with the flow, blend in.
• Vary your pattern and stay within your cover.
• Make sure they can't anticipate your destination. 
• Lull them into a sense of complacency.
• Don’t harass the opposition.
• Pick the time and place for action.
• Any operation can be aborted; if it feels wrong, then it is wrong.
• Use misdirection, illusion, and deception.
• Keep your options open.
• Always have an escape plan.

Remember Security.
There are many virtues to be striven after. The greatest of them all is security. All else must be subordinated to that. Security consists not only in avoiding big risks. It consists in carrying out daily tasks with painstaking remembrance of the tiny things that security demands. The little things are in many ways more important than the big ones. It is they which most often give the game away. It is consistent care in them, which form the habit and characteristic of security mindedness. In any case, the man or woman who does not indulge in the daily security routine, boring and useless though it may sometimes appear, will be found lacking in the proper instinctive reaction when dealing with the bigger stuff. Security, of course, does not mean stagnation or being afraid to go after things. It means going after things, but reducing all the risks to a minimum by hard work.

Always Have An Escape Plan
1. Stay away from the telephone and assume all are monitored. 
2. Remember that your cell-phone can be used to determine your location.
3. Use of other communication methods: Encrypted e-mail, cryptographic phones. These are fine against private security companies but will lose their value the first time the FSB discovers they're being used. They'll call in their in-house computer experts or even the Spetssviaz to crack a sophisticated code. 
4. Take precautions to determine if you are followed.
5. Don't believe that because you are out-of-country you are safe. Many people have been under surveillance by a country's intelligence service while abroad.