Here we talk about risk management. The risk of a sufficiently large collapse of the social structure and its components for you to defend your life, that of your family, an area, and, by extension, a (your) territory. Yes. Your territory, your resources, your family. Whatever name you give to your reaction to this risk, gregarious instinct, survivalism, patriotism ... the result is the same: you will fight in all possible ways, in all the dimensions imposed by your environment, and with constraints generally non-existent in a modern, long-established army. Or you will die.

Once this observation is made, or, for some, this realization made, a brutal truth is essential: you are deprived of the skills and know-how of the fighter. Of course some are hunters, other sports shooters, and still others enjoy exceptional fitness, but nothing, absolutely nothing, has prepared you for military action, let alone counter-insurgency. Worse, you have no logistical means to level, even minima, your lack of competence.

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   MATERIAL
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   ORGANISATION
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   TRAINING
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   PLANNING

STRESS

In addition to a decisive "field" practice, the training of a warrior requires a perspective as deep as possible, adjusted to the limits inherent in the condition of the civilian combatant - the militiaman (miles / soldier) - (material means limited and lack of logistics base - family or clan structure unaccustomed to living according to a defined hierarchical structure - no employment doctrine or strategy thought upstream).

Nothing will replace an empirical approach. Absolutely nothing. However, we will try, through a series of articles, and a documentary base as much as possible - free of download and use - to bring the theoretical base allowing, according to a defined protocol, to think and put an operational combat group, flexible and adapted to the forms of combat observed during a civil war.

Some essential prerequisites before starting:

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  The time factor. Like any activity, this modest training will require a significant personal investment ... and time-consuming. The access to the documentary database is free, to you to dispose of it as you can.
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  The application of theoretical knowledge in the training phase "on the ground". Without training in conditions close to the real, the capacity of application is strongly reduced, even null.
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  Logistic. The cock and the knife is great. But without a minimum ... In short, a dedicated hardware budget is needed - including weapons and ammunition.