Top 5's - For Prepping

Top 5 weapons for post SHTF that rarely rate a metion in internet PrepperLand
1. The Ability to read body language and forecast the behaviour of everyone around you.
2. Grenades. They turn cover into concealment in many circumstances. Where a bullet cant go a grenade often can. Practice using dummies first to get the hang of dropping them on targets behind objects which are bullet resistant. They also go down holes and clear a room better than anything. How many Hollywood gunfights could have been ended in 15 seconds with a grenade?
3. Corrupt connections / "friends with influence". Lets face it ... all the top dogs have these in their arsenal. Because they work.
4. Detcord. You know why. No explanation needed.
5. Petrol. Cheap. Effective. Versatile. Available. Like 2 (above) it can get to threats that bullets just cant reach.

Modern warfare has gone drones..  For surveillance and ordinance delivery.  

They are an extreme multiplier, trying to make grenades and Molotov cocktails will get you into trouble,.  

It has been a number of years ago now I read a amateur fiction short story about an EMP (?) end of the world situation.. There is also a couple or more audio books on CDs like this.. The CD series was from the local library at that time..

A big part of the story is about ...get home.. and the tactics to defend once home.. One of several things eluded to were homemade land mines, anti personal mines mostly improvised as buried and weather proof claymore type mines made from electrical detonated pipe bombs sealed in plastic 2 kilo or similar sealable size containers filled with shrapnel... This also included how to on setting up other ...surveillance and area denial... techniques.. I'm sure all this is highly illegal to construct or implement most anywhere in the world, but interesting from an educational ...how to DIY.. prospective..

In the "Mad Max"  scenario there are no shops..

In apocalyptic scenario medial support will be very limited,  something like an infected scratch can cause death or loss of a limb.  Attaching a hardened structure or vehicle is very risky.  All militaries and law enforcement use armored vehicle for military and riot support, why because they are useful.  
I spend 30min a day following Russia/Ukraine war - both sides use armored vehicle and both sided loose armored vehicles daily, the main difference is the western vehicle and body armor way out preforms anything the Russian have.  The Ukrainians get to live and escape.  Having protection against small arms fire and arrows is a force multiplier. 

Another point.
Societal collapse is not a war but evasion and escape, or get a person to medical support.  It s not a military operation take the hill at all cost where attacking troops are exposed to Molotov cocktails rife fire from bunkers etc...   It is a different game and mindset, difficult to identify who is the enemy.

Economic collapse is real, the world has less food reserves than ever before in history, global debt is all time high and every country has issues.  A 1929 collapse will be devastating as society is no longer cohesive.  Moral corruption and anger and division, is where the world has never seen it before.  

Our reliance on technology where two EPM nukes could take out the enter US electrical grid will be Mad Max wasteland.  Our weapons are very different to the past - Syria is a lawless waste land, Ukraine is smouldering, natural disasters are increasing.  

How do you think Australians will reacts to an EMP - nuke or solar storm causing  grid down, no running water, no sanitation no internet, no  or food delivery, no medications coming into the country.  We will all just get together and work it out holding hands and singing kumbaya/  Those days are gong people are no longer that controllable.  

Mad Max is a very realistic scenario..  

During foreign invasion there are lots of examples of people going and hiding in forests where invading armies cant get them, Australia is to big for a foreign country to take control of the entire continent..  Historically South and east Asia has never been conquered by a single empire, it is too big and too diverse.  

I too expect a economic meltdown, due to debt and food scarcity. Its happening right now, sort of in slow motion.

Whilst Australia is a big country, most of the population is trapped, I mean, lives on, the East Coast, so would be able to be controlled.

I think the Doomsday clock should be at 30 seconds, as this Russian war is going to get hotter. Putin has signaled his intention to use nukes if pushed hard enough, and his ego is big enough that he would do it, even if it meant annihilation of the northern hemisphere to 'save face'. Biden doesn't even know where he is or what day of the week it is, so we are not gonna get any help from that quarter.

Our Polyfilths will be too busy trying to work out where they went wrong, and covering their failures, to help in the coming crisis, so we will be on our own.

Do you have an alternative plan in mind when you leave your BOL now to go shopping etc ? Do the troops know where you will meet them if a nuke does happen ?

I think the actual collapse will be a a slow motion train wreck, the Govt will be trying to maintain a sense of normalcy for as long as possible, but like a house of cards, it will suddenly collapse. That's why we prep for. Within a day or so, certainly less than a week, food, fuel, electricity and so on will become in short supply. Marshal law may very well be declared, so no traveling to your BOL, you better be there before that happens, set up with water, food gardens, alternative electrical, comms and so on.




The problem isn't a lack of money, food, water or land..The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind....

There’s a huge misunderstanding about the power of the government during a collapse of society. The government and the police have no real power. All they have is the illusion of power, reinforced by the acceptance of the vast majority of people to abide by the laws set by the government.

When that ratio changes, when the vast majority of people decide not to abide by the law, the police and government become powerless. Just like in some US cities at the moment. The government knows this, which is why they turn up the heat very gradually. A sudden mass confiscation of firearms might well shift this equation. Do they really want to pi$$ off almost 1 million armed citizens?

Awesome!  Exactly what he said x 100. 

Indeed.  Once power is out or fuel delivery stopped due to problems in the east China sea or economic collapse and no country is transporting fuel. Collapse is like instant.
The just in time delivery systems fails, most food is processed in a few very large factories or abattoir, relies on transport.  Gone are the day of local food processing and distribution. We live in a bizzarro world like nothing that has been before.  

Aus strategic fuel reserves are sitting in the US..  We will never see that coming back.