 Hey everyone Dylan Schumacher with Citadel Defense and today's version of tactical book review is Facing Violence Preparing for the Unexpected by Rory Miller. Rory Miller has written several books in this space and this is one of them. This is the only one that I personally have read. I read this book several years ago actually and I found it in my bookshelf when I was looking through to try to find some other books and I came across this one and I thought oh I don't think I have done a review on this one yet so I should do that. This book covers again it's all in the title Preparing for Violence so it really is helping you prepare mentally for violence is really what it goes on about and it's primarily based around hand-to-hand violence and not necessarily guns are involved although certain certainly could be covered it's primarily based around a hand-to-hand combat or violent confrontation. One of the most impactful things I took from this book that I still use in reference today is when he talks about social violence and he talks about different kinds of violence. You've probably heard these terms before the monkey dance, the group monkey dance, the educational beat down, the status sheet, the status seeking show and territory defense. I've heard those referenced several times on active self- protection for instance the educational beat down or the group monkey dance and those are very good descriptors of violence and how violence can occur you're maybe wondering what those terms actually mean have to read the book. So that is one of the things out of here that I took that's been extremely impactful and giving me good categories for understanding violence. I would really recommend reading this book I read it several years ago when I first started getting into reading and looking for books to read and what books should we be reading and it is giving me some helpful categories and helpful hooks to hang my hat on to put ideas in buckets. I'm a big believer that in order to understand ideas in general we need terms and buckets to be able to dump knowledge into and this book does that well it gives me several terms and understandings of things that I can dump knowledge into and come back and reference it later. So if you haven't read Facing Violence by Rory Miller I would pick it up I have not read any of his other books I'm sure they're equally as applicable and then helpful and when I get there we'll put them on the channel but until then please read Facing Violence it would be helpful for you in just understanding how you deal with violence. The other thing that this book does a good job of is explaining your brain on adrenaline and that was another very helpful thing from there that I wanted to mention. Until then do brave deeds and endure.