 Dylan Schumacher with Sibyl Defense and today we're back with another edition of tactical book review. Today's book is Resistance to Tyranny by Joseph Martino. I don't know how to pronounce that. Joseph P. Martino. This is a little bit thicker of a volume as you can tell. I read this book because I came across it on Reed Hendricks' channel and he had recommended it a couple times and if Reed Hendricks tells you to read a book, it's probably worth a book checking out. So I picked it up, read through it and basically what this thing is is a primer on how to run a resistance movement. I mean they cover everything in here from trying to find a table of contents. Here we go. 2010 is when this book came out and it was in memory of Patrick Henry. God bless America. So I mean they cover everything with y-arm resistance to probability of success, to weapons cashing, to booby traps, logistics, training, secure camps, encryption and codes, getting your story out, attack and defense, ambushes, sniping, assassination, sabotage, raids, strategic and tactical intelligence, counterintelligence. I mean it keeps going okay. There's like 30-some chapters in here and all and it just runs the gamut and it's a primer. So what it does is it gives a little bit of information just to kind of get your toes wet on each one of those topics and then at the end of each chapter he has lists of other books that you can read for further reading to kind of dig into that topic more. I really like the way this book is laid out in that sense and that like I said it's just enough to wet your palette and then it gives you further resources if you want to dive deeper into any one of those given topics. So that that's a really really cool design. I love that this book is written from perspective of liberty and freedom in America and what I mean by that is he wrote this book as a guide to resisting against tyranny right. It's in the title and I really really appreciate that. Like this guy is an American and he believes in liberty and freedom and our original revolution and I'm a big fan of anyone who's a big fan of that. So if you would read this book right, if that's something that you might foresee in our future in the long run this would be a good primer to kind of get your palette wet on all of that. If you're interested in that kind of thing I would recommend it to you. If you're not I'd say pass right. There's no reason for you to pick it up at that point because that's obviously what the book is about. Well well written like I said I really like the format of how he kind of gives you a little bit on each. The favorite part of the book honestly for me was the opening chapter because what he does is he goes through all the casualties of war in the 20th century which most deadly century in American history or in world history if you didn't know that okay and he compares it to all the people that were killed by governments right their own governments how many people governments killed and it's not even close. War killed about thirty five point seven million people in the 20th century. Governments not in wars killed a hundred and nineteen point four million. Hundred and nineteen to thirty five not even close and so he talks about how governments can be the biggest killer right because they get out of control and most of that by the way was communist governments of course obviously out of that hundred and nineteen million ninety five million of them were communist deaths right. So communism he just hasn't worked right we just got to try it again anyone who says that I don't read a history book just one just one history book. Point is I think that's a very valuable information to have and he goes through how disarmament led to the mass slaughter and massacres and genocides in a lot of places right first they came for the guns then they or the next government in that same country came in and genocide happened because the population was disarmed and unable to defend themselves. So I really like his history on that and those are just just some short chapters I really like his perspective on that I like where he's coming from when he writes this book he talks about just war theory which is is super helpful and how that's important. How you fight is as important as why you fight is as important as the method or how you fight is as important as why you're fighting and if you fight wrongly it's going to ruin your eventual victory right if you fight a good war wrongly like let's say it's car bombs and blowing up civilians right call us people terrorists if you ever do succeed in in your goals it's not exactly creating a good environment after the fact and I appreciate that because I think a lot of people can just be like well there are the bad guys and we're just gonna kill them we're gonna do whatever we have to do to win and they're not thinking we're fighting to establish liberty we have long-term goals in mind and there's gonna be a peace after and how are we gonna live after and talks about that and I really appreciate that so big fan of this book if just for those few little chapters but like I said if you're interested in resisting tyranny and you're interested in liberty then I guess I would recommend this book to you it can get a little long because it's like 400 some pages and if you skip chapters that aren't interesting but in general I like that it just gives you enough to wet your palate on each topic Dylan Schumacher said a defense do brave deeds and endure