 let's be honest there's more to it than just guns. Hello everyone Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense and we are back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. Today's book is the Area Intelligence Handbook by Mr. Mike Shelby. Mike Shelby, I don't know of Mike Shelby super well. I bought this book because a buddy of mine bought it and he's like I'm going to read this book so I bought it and then I read it and I bumped into it online a few times but Mike Shelby has a company that does intelligent stuff and I think he has a YouTube channel and maybe some podcasts and stuff like that if he has a YouTube channel I'll probably tag him in this so Mike if you're watching this thanks. And this book really revolves around how to conduct an area study in your area. If you're like what the hell is an area study well one by the book two an area study is really helping you to understand your area of operations and having intelligence on that area right that's really what it is well what's intelligence again by the book he does a very good job of helping you understand exactly what kinds of intelligence you should gather right what do you need to know about your area how should you then store that information and file it he also does a very good job with that you don't have to be a smart person to understand this book if intelligence sounds like some kind of weird you know thing that people do and they do it in the back room and you don't really know I'm just a grunt Dylan I don't need to know that stuff well this book does a great job of breaking it down even for you Neanderthal types and in that sense I would recommend it additionally I will say look you know in the gun world stuff we get into the shooting right and then if we're smarter maybe we graduate into like the teamwork and the tactics stuff I view this as kind of like the next rung on that ladder and Dylan's made up ladder of American minute man embracing a martial American heritage tactical excellence I view this as kind of that next rung and so if you've got a good grasp on the pew-pews and you've started to do some team-oriented stuff this book I think is the next book for you because as again every day American wants to brace your martial American heritage having a good idea and understanding of how intelligence type stuff works at least to still a background level which I'm sure that's all that this is is really really helpful for you and could behoove you when China invades so would highly recommend it in that regard the other thing I will say is that Mike Shelby definitely writes the book from a more prepping kind of background right like a preparedness kind of background which is great and fine I don't really necessarily consider myself in that camp however I think there's a lot to garner here and again even if you take the prepping stuff aside you take the the you know pew-pew stuff aside you set all that to the side doing an area study in your area is just going to help you understand where you live better it's going to help you understand how you should vote better or what bureaucrats keep sending you stupid tickets in the mail that you want to ignore right like it's going to help you understand the context in which you live better and so for that I think just that alone if you take all the other stuff out I think it's worth a read I'm probably going to try to get my wife to read this book because I think it would be helpful for understanding the community we live in just a little bit better and hey who shouldn't want to do that more sadly this book is not on amazon so I can't drop an affiliate link however that being said I will definitely drop a link to their store down in the description below so if that sounds like something you want to read which by the way I recommend you should go read it you can go down and click that link and then you can you know buy the book and read it I will definitely say that as you read this book this is a doing book it's appropriately named a handbook right like this is a workbook thing that you do you shouldn't just read this book I'm like oh yeah peruse it I got I got the information it's one of those things you have to follow through with and do so I would tell you to get the book read the book and then I would tell you to do the book actually walk through and build your area study talk with some friends in your area or if you don't have any friends just do it alone in your basement under a single dangling lightball by yourself the point is is do the area study so that you have a better understanding of where it is you live and you know what you need to do if China invaded so I hope that's helpful I hope that gives you in a good direction again this is the area intelligence handbook by Mr. Mike Shelby do brave deeds and endure