More on home and homeland defense

More on home and homeland defense

       The mission is to protect ourselves, and our water, waste water treatment, and our food sources as best we can

        Here are the obvious weapons and ideas that come to my mind:

                         Use rifles, pistols, shotguns, crossbows, bows, air rifles, BB guns, pepper spray (and similar personal defense sprays), sling shots, knives, spears,  machetes and axes, and even tin cans with pebbles strung on lines, as best you can.  Some people may even have NVG's and FLIR's and UAV's and walkie-talkies and Tasers that they know how to use. Ammo reloaders also have an advantage until their supplies run out, too.

 

               Here are some other less obvious but still good choices during hard times:

                  

                        Use farm tools (especially if sharpened), sports things like tennis rackets and golf clubs and bats,  kitchen gear (like knives and forks and temperature widgets  with "measuring spears"),  boiling oil and water, real spear-throwers (example is an atlatl) , garden tools (like a scythe or manual hedge cutter), auto tools like tire irons and flares, wood working tools (like a draw knife and a wood auger), sewing widgets like an sewing auger and big needles;  sirens and clangors and bells,  flashlights, fires (wildlife may be a threat, too), shop tools (like screw drivers and hammers and saws), pencils and pens, R/C tools, rocks, pipes, bicycle pumps, and wood; home games that use stakes and heavy things (like horseshoes, for example), home chemicals (like pool shock and ammonia), infantry defense techniques (like a tank trap, patrolling , ambushes, camouflage, and foxholes come to mind), booby traps, rat traps (not bad for squirrel trapping either), strobe lights,  paint guns and associated equipment, solar powered lights (maybe flashing), boat air horns,  obstacles along pathways,  even rumors, to include warning signs (sometimes false, like disease), and of course, animals (both inside and outside). Dogs and guineas (the bird) work well.  Now dogs may mess with a lot of ambush ideas, including tripping booby traps, too.  Plus consolidate one's water and waste water and food assets (to include gardening areas) to the best one can in order to be able to protect them as best you can.

             In all cases, remember one just has to mess with the bad people's minds as a good start point. Surprises generally produce good effects. They (the bad and often desperately hungry and sick  people) have their own problems, too.  Rehearse during daylight, and be able to do OK at night and foul weather, too. Be sure to help the morale of those who become cold, wet, and hungry during homeland defense (as best you can).  Food and/or warm broth comes to my mind.
           
             Treating the "good" locals with respect may get good results, too. Even integrating one's homeland defense into a greater community or neighborhood plan may be a good idea eventually. For example, communities may have choke and access points (like road blocks) that mutually enhances one's own home and homeland defense setup. Now such ideas usually do take leadership and self-interest, and some maps and diagrams often come in handy, too. Even think about helping others in things, and using the Golden Rule and Noblesse Oblige. Last, community policemen can be a real asset due to training and loyalty, and after all they may have Family and Friends to feed and defend, too.
 
          Also think about unexpected people (often Family and Friends) who show up and need help. For example, what do you plan to do for home defense if any refugee influx should happen to you, most especially if it is "short notice". An obvious example is an RV in the driveway. And recognize many of these people have already been through dangerous roadblocks and "checkpoints" just to get to your location. And they may be cold, wet, and hungry, too.

            Rehearse home defense things periodically (like twice a year) to enhance operational effectiveness;  plus enhance the  trust, faith, and confidence of those at your location.  After all, people will come and go, so rehearsal updates make sense to the most that remain. This includes things like fire drills, wild fire drills,  weapons use and safety training (to include "thrifty" target shooting and "dry fire" situations), cooking safety, patrolling training (including routes and important things to protect), wild plant recognition,  reaction drills,  animal  care, using maps and diagrams for defense and food collection( to include hunting and collection zones), and communications  and signals (including alerts). Don't assume anything.

            Get public school and immigration required inoculations if you can. Most countries have inoculation requirements even for visitor visas that one can use as a list.

            Maintain our shelters from adverse weather as best we can. Reinforce them, Rhodesian style, if you sense times are going to get really hard where you live.

            Having a plan for action during a pandemic is always good for morale and home defense. Now a pandemic itself is never  good for morale since people are often very sick or dying, but again, having a plan for any pandemic that may actually occur in any weather season is generally good for trust, faith, and confidence in the leaders;  and the doctors and nurses, medics, corpsmen, EMC's, people who are caregivers, and any that may be aboard;  and even though some sick people will most likely die, to include some home invaders. In all cases, bury or cremate all the dead to help  prevent even more disease, and document the locations of the burial, too, since most relatives may want to eventually relocate their relative's remains. (Even knowing mass grave locations can be a big deal).  Plus remember one can make home-made ways to disinfect used breathing masks (instead just throwing them away after use), like even using a boiler or pressure canner on top of a wood stove to do the disinfection, and then drying them outside in the air and sunshine. Even this approach is not perfect, but still better than doing  nothing, or just throwing away the masks after use until there are no more. Even sneezing into your clothing sleeve ( a "de facto" breathing mask of sorts) and washing your hands as best you can is also a good idea.  And in the end, just keeping the sick and ill warm and hydrated (again as best you can) is a not a bad way to perform, or at least to start. One can make improvised breathing masks out of T-shirt pieces, also. That's part of home and homeland defense, too.

             Have a quick replacement procedure if the home and homeland leader succumbs, or otherwise gets replaced or is incapacitated.  After all, home and homeland defense is always our problem all the time. This includes the idea of an evolving situation. Said another way, what needed defending yesterday may not deserve the same priority today.

              Last, have a "quick start" idea until a longer term home and homeland defense plan (with the kinks worked out) gets implemented. The actual situation should have developed by then, too.