 Warning. Many of the techniques and devices discussed in this book are extremely dangerous and possibly illegal. Before attending to perform any act or use any equipment and techniques discussed herein, the reader is advised to receive professional training and to ensure that he is in complete compliance with all federal, state and local laws and regulations and is not in any way endangering others. This book is for academic study only. Any time you read that in the intro in a book, you know it's going to be a fun ride. Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we're back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. Today's book, The Knights of Darkness, the secrets of the world's deadliest night fighters by Dr. Ha Ha Lung. This book is actually pretty old. It's copyrighted 1998, so it's got some years on it by this point. However, a lot of it is still pretty relevant. So this book is really about being like a modern day ninja. It's about like sneaking into places and infiltration and all of it done at night and different ruses you can use to do that and how to get past gates and wires and basically how to like infiltrate like a secret ninja. That's really what this book is about and it's serious. And it actually has some helpful things when it talks about working at night or fighting at night. Things that I've heard in other nighttime resources that I've sourced before. So particularly the part of the book where it talks about like how long it takes your eyes to adjust to total night vision, which by the way is about 40 minutes and like sitting in darkness for your eyes to completely acclimate to nighttime and then as soon as you get light it ruins it. It's a big thing. Anyways, humans have terrible night vision. So it's very interesting in the front half and then kind of the back half of the book he goes more into like how to be sneaky sneaky and kind of how to be a modern ninja, really for lack of a better way to describe it. It's a good read. He takes the topic very seriously. It's not like a five-year-old ninja book, which you would kind of think it is, but it's not. It's actually a very serious book. And again, it's all about that infiltration nighttime ability. That's really what this book revolves around. And it's kind of off the beaten path from the typical tactical books that we'll talk about, right? Like typically we'll talk about just like shooting and how to do the shooting parter, tactics, how we're gonna how we're gonna fire maneuver and stuff like that. And that is all done from a very American based way of fighting. Every people in history has their way of fighting and Americans are no different, right? We tend to like toe-to-toe matches. We want to stand up. We want to roll up heavy with armor and plates and guns and just blast the other person off the battlefield. The East has typically not done that, which is where this book kind of comes in. The East has been more sneaky sneaky and they'll do more infiltration. And even things as far into like World War II and stuff, you see a lot more of those kind of tactics out of Japan and China than you did out of the Americans, right? So it's just it's different ways of fighting from different cultures and to be the best fighter, you should take all the different things that cultures have to offer, keep the good stuff and toss out the bad, right? So I look at this as kind of something that's off the beaten path that will give you a little bit, I don't want to say an edge, but it gives you a little bit different perspective on how to do something. Whereas usually the American style would be like, well, we need something inside this facility. Let's just send in a Ranger battalion and we'll blow the crap out of it and then we'll get what we want. Or you can just send in like five guys and be all sneaky sneaky and get it and they'll never know. You know what I mean? Like those are different ways to solve the problem. And so that's where I like this. It's just kind of a different perspective. It's a very non-American perspective in the sense of our traditional way that we're going to solve problems as American fighters. So I like that because it gives you that different angle, that different edge, that different way to solve the problem. So if you're looking for something that's kind of a little bit more off the beaten path and something that's a little bit different and something to give you a little bit different perspective on it, then I would recommend this book to you. Especially if you're going to be operating at night. If you're going to do anything at night or you foresee anything at night or you just want to know about nighttime operations better, this book is going to be helpful. A lot of this stuff is rolled into modern-day U.S. military patrolling tactics. And if you know a decent amount about that, you're going to see a lot of crossover here. If you don't, no harm, no foul. But you will definitely recognize some things if you have a solid grasp on modern American military patrol tactics and procedures. And like I said, you'll see that crossover. But it's going to give you that different perspective, that different angle, just a different way of seeing things. And for that I think it's valuable. It's a short read. It's only 146 pages. I mean, it's really not that long. So if you're looking for something else, it's a little bit different, but you still want to continue to expand your knowledge about tactics and being prepared American, I would recommend Nights of Darkness. 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