 Hey everybody Dylan Schumacher citadel defense and we are back with another edition of a tactical book review Today's book is concrete jungle a green berets guide to urban survival by mr. Clay Martin I ran across this book because I actually have his second book prairie fire sitting in my office right now And that was the book that popped into my Twitter feed and I bought that I saw that was the part two This was the part one so me being a purist I bought the first I bought them both and I wanted to read part one before I read part two because I Can't skip ahead This is a book that is basically about surviving in an urban environment Given social unrest kind of an anarchy type scenario, you know be it like the Minneapolis riots We we just saw this year or the riots and a number of other cities, but And that's kind of the deal how are you how are you gonna prepare for and then survive in that and that's what the book's about It's what he goes through it is written in a very conversational style Even if you're not a reader if you don't like reading books and and you get lost and it's frustrating to you this book is Extremely accessible It's written in a very conversation style and it's like 215 pages So it's not big but as you can see like it doesn't take up a whole lot of the page It has these extra margins, which I always like because I like taking notes and books but Super readable super easy to read. I read it in two days. I mean I probably spent maybe Five or six actual hours of reading and that was with my kids You know trying to bother me in the middle of reading. So it's super accessible Doesn't take a lot to read it and it's worth the read He covers a couple things and it really reminds me of a Resist resistance to tyranny By Joseph Marino also a very good book that you should read in the sense that this book is kind of a primer He's not giving you detailed instruction manuals. He's not giving you, you know full-on tactical manuals It's just like a primer like hey, have you thought about how much food you should have well Here's how much you should think about having or water or weapons or whatever and it kind of walks you through What you need to think about he does have a chapter on knives, which I just found interesting because I don't know anything about knives So it could be total garbage, but I don't think it is So yeah, just it's just helpful and if you've never held a gun in your life. This book is still accessible to you I've shot some guns in the past, but this book will take you from absolutely nothing To to at least get you started on the path that thinking about it and what what you need and what you want to do So if you're concerned about that if you're like, hey This is gonna go bad and and I want to think about how to be prepared I don't even know where to start. Where do I start thinking about how to be prepared for it? I would recommend this book It'll get you at least started and start thinking about it get the wheels turning Give you some categories to think through and I think that's where the strength is I am very excited to read the second book Which is my my understanding we'll find out after I read it is is how to survive the civil war I think the tagline is something like that So I'm looking forward to reading the second one as far as I can tell these are both published at the same time This one I think has a 2020. Yep 2020 copyright on it So I think these might have been published at the same time just back-to-back as far as I can tell they're self-published Not any typos or errors that I came across which is rare in the self-publishing community So if that's the case kudos to you mr. Clay Martin and I think that's all I got Would recommend it worth the read again, even if you're not a reader this one is super accessible And if you just want some kind of ground-level thing of where do I start thinking how I start thinking in these categories? This book will do it One other thing I would like to say About this is one of the things that I think is a strength of the author here is that he stays in his lane I mean, he's been in special forces in the army for 20 years and He obviously knows a lot about a lot, but he does a good job of just saying hey in this area I'm not an expert even though I'm reading this and I'm thinking yeah But in that area you probably know a lot more than I do And so he you know stays in his lane in the sense that he's like I'm really good at the shooty shoot stuff And and I'm really good at like the tactic stuff and here's what I can help you with Here's this other stuff that you should think about but you know There are better people that write on it or know more about it. And so here's just kind of a quick primer So I appreciate that because not a lot of authors will do that right? They'll they'll get a little big for their britches and think the act like they know the authority on all this topics And really reading this book is just like what I would imagine sitting across The table and having a beer with mr. Clay Martin would be like because it's just that kind of conversational Chill style. He doesn't take himself super seriously He writes with a bit of humor, which yeah, I enjoy so if you're looking for a book to Say to give you categories to start to think in how to survive an urban environment when the anarchy comes to town I would recommend urban survival by clay. I would recommend concrete jungle by clay Martin to brave deeds and endure