Written from the perspective that it will be used by those who are prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. Good strategies and well-related stories as examples. It is motivating and gives you a reason for turning off the television, buying a good pair of hiking boots and getting outside to enjoy the outdoors (maybe to find that B-O property you’ve been thinking about…or developing what you have). It’s good reading from cover to cover! It’s one of the top in my “what if…? collection”

I found this book to be reasonably well written and it contained several useful techniques and tips. I spent five years in the Army Infantry and the book was a good review of skills and scenarios that I haven’t given much thought to since I stepped out of combat a number of years ago. As with any instructional book, the reader needs to look at what is written, analyze it, and determine if it is personally useful/applicable or not. I think for most people, this book is thought provoking and supplies the reader with a good foundation to assess his/her personal preparedness. I am a fan of Joe Nobody’s books and find that I get a few really good and usable ideas from each one. If you’re a prepper, then I definitely recommend this book because it addresses what to do when the prepper’s preps fail or run out.

If you are a beginning prepper and are wondering how to begin this book will help you with your bugout bag and with defending your home. If you are an experienced prepper this book will help you with scavenging, looting, and rescue attepts post disaster. Joe Nobody has a lot of useful information that his friend Every Person really needed to hear! Excellent book!

I will start by saying i am a prior service us army paratrooper(1 enlistment) and 10 years of service navy seal(yes, i actually was) followed by several contracts as a private military contractor. I collect and read guerilla warfare, small unit history and a lot of survivalist books. I have read joes prior book and this one. This book has promise for someone with no training. It contains some interesting info. Where it lacks is it needs more simple illustrations and diagrams. It could be fleshed out more in the evasion and personal camo sections. I like the book, but it really needs about 50 more pages with the above listed info, and some seasame street basic individual and small unit movement instruction. Most people, in my expierience , gain little from military manuals, and this would be a good vehicle for instruction. How about a rewrite, joe? be glad to help. Pat8492@yahoo.com

Without Rule of Law is an excellent book that covers areas of prepping and survival that most books don’t even come close to touching on. This book assumes that most of your perfect plans did not work out. Your stockpiles might have been destroyed, stolen, abandoned etc, and you now have to rely on your skills rather than supplies.

Building skills is really what this book is focused on. It contains important lessons, that center on the four important skills of Hiding, Evasion, Scavenging, and Infiltration. It does contain some limited gear recommendations, but encourages the reader to find out what works for them. The book stresses actually getting out there, and practicing the things learned. Finding out for yourself what actually works.

Each section has a short lesson plan that gives you useful information about the topic. Suggests some specific gear that may be helpful and then challenges you with certain exercises. These exercises are simple in the beginning such as preparing a meal over an open fire. They build up to full scale exercises where all your learned skills will be utilized.

A notebook of self made notes is suggested. It is in this notebook where you will record the valuable lessons discovered while going through the suggested exercises. Things like what did you use? How long did it take? Were you able to complete tasks in night and all conditions? What worked? What didn’t?

Along the way the reader will gain a clear understanding of developing plans in a systematic way. Developing 1st 2nd and 3rd line gear, and what is contained in each. Various camouflage and evasion principles for both urban and wilderness terrain. Weapon selection. Methods of scavenging, infiltrating, and looting to gain needed resources. Most importantly, by following the exercises the reader will clearly assess current skills sets, and determine where improvement is most critical.

Without Rule of Law is not a book that tells you everything you need to know. It is rather, a book that guides you to learn for yourself. It encourages action. In fact, if you’re unwilling to participate, then it would have little to offer you. It is essentially a self study course in the above topics. Often the lessons learned from experience are the most valuable, and that’s what is encouraged in this book.

Bottom line, this is an excellent book that fills a niche not covered by most other survival or prepping materials. The exercises are well worth the time and effort to complete, and I highly recommend it.