Jack Lawson Sends: Review of the book Tactical Wisdom

Jack Lawson sent along this review of “Tactical Wisdom” by Joe Dolio.
Jack is the author of the two volume masterpiece, “Civil Defense Manual”. You can grab a copy of his book here. Jack is a strong supporter of American Partisan, and even had NC Scout write the chapter on Radio Communications (Chapter 17 in Volume I). I bought my copy the day it become available and I highly recommend you do as well.


Rare does a book catch my attention like Tactical Wisdom. It could have been authored by my alter ego. But the Author, Joe Dolio, has created what I consider a companion and must-read book to my book the Civil Defense Manual. His book “Tactical Wisdom TW-01 Baseline Training Manual” has almost every procedure in it that my book has… presented in a concise and superb manner. He also has a great writing style.
The man clearly must be a genius, if by his definition of the word, we think alike. For those unaware of what I’m talking about, you’d have to read Joe’s opening line in his review of my book. But Joe and I, regardless of our level of intelligence and I’m definitely not a genius, agree on the way to Preparedness, Survival and organizing with others for Strength Through Numbers for protection.
This review is not a ‘trade off’ knee jerk evaluation of the Tactical Wisdom Series from me because Joe wrote a generous review for me… because anyone who knows me well, knows that I won’t praise a poor presentation, incompetence and or misinformation for any reason. The fact is that this Marine Corps Veteran has written a classic in writing the “Tactical Wisdom Base Line Training Manual.”
I know that Joe is more intelligent than me by one item… as he quotes The Ultimate Base Line Book… the Bible… in his book. That incredible Guide Book that I’ve seemed to wandered away from… despite being brought up by it. Some people that know me would say… “Lawson, you reading the Bible!?”
Well, I am drifting back to the Bible and Christianity… probably from the insanity of what illogic is bringing our society. I am not reading it because “I’m looking for a loophole” for my transgressions, like W.C. Fields said when one of his friends questioned him astounded that he was reading the Bible on his death bed. I have a pretty good idea where I’m going… and it won’t be pretty… but I still hold out hope for Valhalla.
That being said, I believe our exclusion of God, his Son and the Holy Spirit by many ‘enlightened’ and ‘elite’ people is the basis of the on-going destruction of the fabric of society, decency, the family, Free Enterprise (instead of Fascist Corporations), Individual Rights and Constitutional America.

When the huge egos and twisted values of those who become legends in their own minds represents the aggregate essence of a world of peoples… in lieu of the righteousness and principles of an Immortal and Benevolent Higher Power… mankind is well on the way to catastrophe… if not extinction.
I have read just about every survival book out there. Good ones… and bad ones. Fiction and non-fiction… handbooks, manuals and riveting fiction plots… some with excellent common-sense survival information and storylines… and then there are those with the ‘expert’s fantasy’ on how to survive.
What started me off was the late British Author John Christopher’s 1957 science fiction novel “No Blade of Grass,” first published as “The Death of Grass,” and made into a movie in 1970. A post-apocalypse story where food crops fail, and the world descends into chaos.
But novels cannot convey to you all the necessary methods and explain all the critical information on Preparedness and Survival no matter how good a story they are. However, novels will get you thinking in the right direction and sometimes point out stark issues that imaginations cannot conceive of in normal civility.
A case in point… William Forstchen’s “One Second After.” I said bull shytte when his story had 90% of Americans dying within one year after a High-altitude Electro Magnetic Pulse event (HEMP or EMP) happened. I retracted my words after reading the story and understanding why he would be correct in his assessment.
All the books you will read on apocalyptic events, Preparedness and Survival will give you basic, and in some cases extensive, information necessary to survive disaster and Catastrophic Events… however some will also give you and yours an early meeting with your Maker for inaccurate and erroneous information. Deadly.
But both fiction and non-fiction books on Preparedness and Survival create in you something critical… a valuable thought process that gives you a different perspective and understanding of the frailty of we humans on this planet.
And regardless… almost every book you read leaves you knowing something you didn’t know before you picked it up, if you check the accuracy of the information. Life is a process of learning… up to the second you pass from this world into the next.
What you’ll get in Tactical Wisdom Series is the solid information and procedures on what you must do to prepare for calamity and how to survive it. We both tell people what and how to do it, but Joe brilliantly puts a synopsis and summary at the end of each of his chapters called Base Line Standards.
I look at his Base Line Standards summary at the end of each chapter as the “get up and go… do it if you’re for real…” or don’t… if you’re an arm chair commando and couch potato. When I write a new edition of the Civil Defense Manual… I’ll do the same… put a summary of what people must do in ‘one-line sentences’ at the end of each chapter. A true motivator. A “Shytte… or get off the pot!” motivator.
I was astounded page by page in the similarity of Tactical Wisdom Base Line Standard ‘TW-01’ to the Civil Defense Manual. I haven’t finished Tactical Wisdom Fieldcraft TW-02 yet, but I will and will review that also.
This Marine Corps Veteran has also seen the boogeyman. That ‘qualification’ of combat experience alone does not convey a super mythical power that enables an author to write Preparedness and Survival books… but it does make you hypervigilant towards obvious and hidden threats… and creates a “what if mindset” from all the butt puckering of war like going through a hamburger grinder. Some people get this mental state without combat… but most people never do.
Like Robert Preston said in “The Music Man…” “There’s trouble in River City!” Only this trouble coming is real and is not a con job. You will live in exciting times in the next decades… make sure you have water to drink, food to eat and neighbors and friends to help protect you and your family… as well as you, them. Your “Tribe.”
Buy Tactical Wisdom and learn. I am excited that Joe plans to put out more in his series, as he indicates he will… books that will compartmentalize what each facet of Preparedness and Survival skills should teach you. I bought them and am learning from them… you should too. Sign up for his blog at https://tactical-wisdom.com… exceptional and timely information.
Joe’s definitely a ‘get up and go’ type of guy with a visionary approach to Preparedness and Survival…
…so, my Base Line Standard advice to you is to ‘get up and go…’
First… get Joe’s books… read his “Tactical Wisdom Base Line Training Manual TW-01” …and start putting together your plan… but with his books’ guidance.
Website: https://tactical-wisdom.com
Buy Joe’s books here at Amazon or check out a free preview on his website.

Base Line Training Manual: Tactical Wisdom Series

Fieldcraft: TW-02 (Tactical Wisdom)

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Patriotman currently ekes out a survivalist lifestyle in a suburban northeastern state as best as he can. He has varied experience in political science, public policy, biological sciences, and higher education. Proudly Catholic and an Eagle Scout, he has no military experience and thus offers a relatable perspective for the average suburban prepper who is preparing for troubled times on the horizon with less than ideal teams and in less than ideal locations. Brushbeater Store Page: http://bit.ly/BrushbeaterStore

5 Comments

  1. boss21 August 25, 2021 at 10:14

    Ordered, thanks for the information.
    God is more real than anyone can imagine. I just don’t like the guys who work for him

  2. KBYN August 25, 2021 at 20:52

    Ordered both paperbacks.
    I hope Jack will consider reading “The Story of Reality” written by the Christian apologist Greg Koukl. The book’s aimed squarely at people like him who seek answers to this world’s chaos, and demonstrates why the Christian worldview makes more sense than any other.

    • Jack Lawson August 27, 2021 at 12:29

      To KBYN and Boss 21… read the part below separated from the rest of this previous post
      My Comment to a Rhodesian on an earlier post…
      Hey, a Rhodie! Thanks for you putting yourself out there and your involvement and dedication to one of the greatest societies, causes and special people, like you, that this planet has ever seen… it was like the Battle of Thermopylae and the Spartan 300 versus the World.
      I assume you know that Green Leader was the result of the massacre of survivors of the two airliners they shot down out of Kariba. All were out for blood… and we got plenty of pay back.
      We left from Kariba Airport and came back through Mana Pools on Green Leader. I was on loan from RLI to ‘C’ Squadron SAS and jumped with them into Westland Farms about 150 klics north of Lusaka, Zambia. My parachute got fricking hung up in a tree but I had 60 pounds of explosives in my drop pack and the tree eventually got tired of holding me and that up.
      We caught them with their pants down. They never thought we’d go that far north of the capitol. Good God… I probably would have shat my pants and stayed in the plane if I’d known we were out numbered as we were. Something like 100 to 1 or more as I was told later. That arsehole Ken Flowers, head of CIO, was letting Brit MI-6 know about our operations and they in turn informed the Terrorists. May he rot in hell. They were a little slow in doing so on this one though. Even though the soccer field and most of the camps were empty… Rhodie Intelligence found out where they’d gone and hit them there too… like about twenty miles away and stomped the shytte out of them there.
      Got 1437 of them total on the op and one of ours wounded. Bombers, gunships and Lynx got most of them. But great by anyone’s numbers. If you’d seen what they did to the Rhodie farm families and their own tribal people you would understand why none of it weighs on my conscience… and then maybe you did see. Humanity is far better off with those arseholes removed from the planet.
      READ THIS…. why I won’t set foot in a Methodist Church and loathe that ‘religion’
      We captured so much ordnance that the C47s flew around the clock hauling this back to Rhodieland. Not the Chinese stuff… but the primo Russian stuff. Brand new Russian RPD, AKMs, TM 57 mines, RPGs with sophisticated sights. We had so much ordinance we put what we couldn’t carry off under and around a pile of sudza the size of a house. Then the engineers blew that into next week and when I left on the chopper it had turned about ten football field sized areas of Africa white and it still looked like it was snowing at Christmas. Sudza given to the terrorists and labeled on the bags “World Council of Churches, Methodist Synod.” That permanently severed my ties with the church I was baptized in.
      60 Minutes did a full hour on the World Council of Churches and their aid to the Communist Terrorists. But the Commies had taken over Rhodesia and that’s the only time 60 Minutes tells the truth… when it’s too late to do anything about it… and their broadcast served a dual purpose… to discredit Christianity. My combat partner, another American in SAS, was a former Vietnam Marine from Tennessee. He and I would check for booby traps and then pick the weapons boxes up and the bottoms would come out… termites.
      Green Leader Raid… great recording on the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p1NRLFso6Q. I like the pilot’s warning at 4 minutes.
      The SAS guy directly in front of me was the only casualty out of 400 of us… we were sweeping a tree lined dry river bed and adjoining fields when a terrorist popped out… fired at us and fucked off before we could get a bead on him. He hit the front sight of the SAS guy’s FN… bullet fragmented into his abdomen and bicep and the remaining fragments flew lickity split past all of us around and behind him. I remember he was cursing because his wedding was in a few days. But he survived.
      Four two barreled 14.7 MM anti aircraft guns had been firing at us after we jumped but by the time we were all down, these terrorists saw the light, threw the bolts from their AA guns into the bush and were all butt cheeks leaving the area. Two terrorists were captured about a half mile away and had hightailed it out of their underground quarters just before we rocked up. These were some of the unhappy POWs you saw, I suppose. They were fresh off a Russian Aeroflot flight to Lusaka and hadn’t even had time to unpack their gear. Still had their Aeroflot dinner menus from the day before in their packs.
      They’d spent the last year at the Patrice Lumumba University in Gorky, Russia. ‘Agricultural Training,’ as the university is known for (Sarcasm). Oddly, they had the same colored training notebooks the Rhodies had. Blue cover, white paper. They looked like they were made by the same printer… probably the company my Father In Law owned… ha ha!
      All their instruction was in English. Detailed sketches of how to lead the target and shoot down paratroopers in one section…. ha! In one pack I found a photo of about 25 students standing between two ancient cannons at this Russian agricultural university. Races and people from all over the world… and I assume all commie terrorist graduates. We force marched to the area the terrorists had moved to prior to our raid to search and destroy in that area. I remember we had no water and were miserable for a day and a half until they got some to us.
      Major H. asked for a volunteer to go into their underground bunkers and I jumped into the trench entrance and was the eager tunnel rat with my flashlight, 9mm and a stupid look you would have seen on my face if it hadn’t been so dark down there. Found nothing but two packs and was worried they’d been booby trapped… but I carefully checked them then went through them.
      I also found a Walther PPK .380 and a Sten Submachinegun in fricking .45 caliber with Russian markings and two HE grenades. Martin O. and I disassembled and hid the Sten, pistol and grenades in the battery compartments of one of our radios which we closely escorted back to Rhodieland.
      Someone ratted us out and they took the Sten from us, but Martin put the pistol and grenades in his personal pack. I found out later that he buried them somewhere in a flower bed in one of the parks in Salisbury. I suppose someday a gardener will tug on his rake and find a grenade pin on one of the tines.
      Now it is equal misery for both black and white… except if they’re in the leadership. The equality of Communism.
      Good to hear from a Rhodie!
      Good God I miss that place…
      Jack Lawson
      Associate Member, Sully H. deFontaine Special Forces Association Chapter 51, Las Vegas, Nevada
      Author of “The Slaver’s Wheel”, “A Failure of Civility,” “And We Hide From The Devil,” “Civil Defense Manual” and “In Defense.”
      As one member of our Commando wrote in later years: “That country (Rhodesia) has cast a long shadow over our lives, has it not?”
      As one struggles to endure the daily mundane of life, I realize he is right. He wrote on…
      “Rhodesia is a woman whose name is forever written upon our hearts – against whom no earthly flesh and blood of female can ever compete. We shed our blood, sweat, tears and the blood of others answering her siren call. Now that the winds and the rains have washed away the stench of the rotting corpses, we remember only the flair of our youth as we jousted lockstep with an opponent equally as determined to rid the world of us, as we him.”
      “Anoma – Anoma – Anoma!” Swahili for “I am a poor man – I am a poor man – I am a poor man!”
      “But I am a rich man and she (Rhodesia) has made me so. We loved her like no other. Oh, how I miss her and my friends so!”
      What amazing words, from yet another one of the guys in my Commando who appeared so ignorant that I didn’t think he knew how to read, let alone capture the spirit of then with such eloquent words.

  3. Anonymous August 26, 2021 at 18:18

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  4. Old Soldier August 27, 2021 at 23:35

    What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk.
    – Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller

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