The Verdict: The format of this book is an excellent way to present survival-style skills. There’s also a foreword and final conclusion by the author, as well as the obligatory “don’t try this at home” warning, emphasizing the potential risks involved in attempting any of these tricks in real life. The skills are broken down into larger parts loosely based on a military Operations Order - Part I being Mission Prep and Part IX being Exfiltration and Escape. The opposite page gives written instructions, sometimes with background or operational context that gives relevance to the skill being taught.
One side is a storyboard-like illustration, often with step-by-step comic book panels showing how the skill is to be executed. The 411: The skills in the book are broken down into two-page panels. Each of these skills is based on the training or operational experience of a former Special Warfare Operator who also spent time working, in some capacity, with the National Security Agency. There are, in fact, 100 separate tips, tricks, and survival hacks to help the reader prepare for any number of possible worst-case scenarios from natural disaster to criminal abduction. A book that’s useful and entertaining? It might not be a skill for the apocalypse, but I’ll take it.The Premise: As the name implies, 100 Deadly Skills is a primer written by former Navy SEAL Clint Emerson. It takes someone much smarter and perceptive than I to come up with half of these skills - and someone even more intelligent to put it all to practical use. Emerson’s book is a great encyclopedia of bada**, but it’s also an incredibly glimpse into the thought process of a high-level operative. His language in the brief intro borders on alarmist - “In a future where every stranger poses a potential threat… The world isn’t getting any safer,” he writes - but, then again, a former NSA agent knows better than I do.įor me, “100 Deadly Skills” wasn’t just a clean and clear-cut collection of good advice, like the “Survival Hacks” book I read by survival coach Creek Stewart. He’s more concerned with helping the Average Joe prepare for it all, like a coach for the apocalypse - or just the unknowns of day-to-day life. 69, “Make an Improvised Explosive Device” and “Make a Molotov Cocktail,” really useful for the Average Joe?Īs Emerson explains it, that’s not his concern. Each chapter and skill is wrapped up with a BLUF, or Bottom Line Up Front, an acronym operatives use to cut through the fat and get to the point.īut what about the deviants out there, the same folks that Emerson deems violent criminals, not Violent Nomads? Is skill No.
For two decades, Emerson was a “Violent Nomad,” the term he uses for covert operatives like himself who are “one-part James Bond, the other Rambo.” They travel the world and do what they do (whatever that is) with a near-endless set of skills, he explains, split into the nine categories he turns into chapters. “We picture aliens, frozen tundra and intergalactic warfare, when in fact the catastrophic event we’ve been waiting for is more likely to look like a mundane report of vandalism on last night’s news - or the massive Internet shutdown in tomorrow’s headlines.”Īnd they should. “People tend to imagine worst-case scenarios in highly colorful terms, but chaos and crime are the real apocalyptic scenarios,” Emerson writes in the intro. After 20 years of experience with covert ops, from the SEALs to the National Security Agency, he knows the worst has a way of sneaking up on people. In “100 Deadly Skills,” the first book from the retired Navy SEAL, Emerson covers hotwiring vehicles and much, much more, all in the name of helping everyday citizens prepare for anything life can throw at them.
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Įver wonder how to hotwire a 1999 Honda Civic? Clint Emerson knows - and he’s more than willing to share. An audio version is also available through iTunes and Audible.įor more info about the book and author Clint Emerson, including his survival-minded follow-up, see. 39 in Part IV: Surveillance.įind it: The book is available online through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Simon and Schuster. Sample writing: “Almost every criminal act, from purse-snatching and other misdemeanors to sex crimes or acts of terrorism, involves some degree of preoperational surveillance,” from the intro to skill No. Sample chapter: Part IX: Efiltration and Escape Illustrated: Yes, nearly every other page
What: A detailed and wonderfully illustrated guide to 100 skills used daily by covert operatives like Navy SEALs, from lock-picking and homemade armor to how you can hardwire a 1999 Honda
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