 Hello everyone Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense and we are back with another edition of Tactical Book Review and today's book is the SHTF Field Manual Proven Strategies to Operate in Contested Environments by Mr. Bill Stoker. Bill Stoker for those of you who don't know has a YouTube channel and that's how I found this and he makes all kinds of videos that are very much in our vein so it might be worth checking out. This book is basically written as a prepper slash kind of you know without rule of law type scenario book and it's kind of a field manual for how to operate in that regard. This is much better than the other prepper book that I reviewed once on this channel which was a terrible, I can't remember the name of it right now, but I gave it a very bad review on this channel and this book is written by someone who actually knows what they're talking about and he is trying to give you basically army tactics and techniques that are useful for living in a time without rule of law. I really like that he starts out the book with mission planning. Most army manuals and books that I've ever reviewed on here did not start with mission planning. They start with something else and the mission planning is like towards the end or maybe the middle if you're lucky, but here he starts out with planning saying like that's important and he notes that in general military planning models and manuals that the planning isn't that well explained or that well done. So I like that he has a very good section on planning. So he starts out with that mission planning which is super helpful and then he goes into other stuff, right? Normal other stuff like some Petru talks about patrolling a little bit or route planning or rallying. He talks about evasion which is kind of the first time I've ever read more in-depth stuff on evasion. All in all this is like a hundred and thirty, hundred and forty pages. You buy it on PDF for like five bucks, then you can print it out yourself. It's super affordable for what it is. The pages aren't like super detailed, right? Like I mean, it's pretty spaced out. But I think that this is a very good primer and for the amount of money that it costs, again five bucks and you can download the PDF, I think it's probably worth looking into. If you're looking for a little bit more of a primer to kind of get used to this stuff, like he doesn't go deep into patrolling, right? Or deep into anything else. He just kind of skates the surface a little bit and gives you some helpful bumpers and guides and rails. And if that's what you're looking for, then I would recommend it to you. If you're not a big reader, this is probably a book for you because it's a real easy read. It's not super in-depth and it gives you some helpful kind of buckets to put information in. So in that regard, I definitely like it. For Mr. Bill Stoker, if you ever read this, I would love a second version of this. And I'd like you to like triple or quadruple its length and go a little bit deeper because I think that there's a lot of knowledge that you have and that you could provide more of in a much more expanded version. Again, if you have other people in your crew who aren't readers and you want them, you're trying to get them to read something so you can kind of all get on the same page. This is a pretty good place to start because, again, it covers the high level basics. It's very accessible to people who aren't big readers because it's not super thick. It's not super complicated. And that can definitely help get everyone on the same page and kind of heading in the same direction. So I hope that was helpful. This has been the SHTF Field Manual by Mr. Bill Stoker. Do brave deeds and endure.