
Suburban Warfare
A cop's guide to surviving a civil war, SHTF, or modern urban combat.
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Don Shift

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Civil war is an unpleasant almost certainty. Average citizens will be called to take up the mantle of defending their homes and neighborhoods. Unprecedented challenges will come to the heartland such as bombings, drone attacks, and perhaps even genocide. Suburban residents may be living in a modern American version of the siege of Sarajevo.
This book is the perfect follow-up companion to Suburban Defense: A cop's guide to protecting your home and neighborhood during riots, civil war, or SHTF. Some of the topics examined are:
- How defenders can use drones,
- How to defeat armed drones,
- Urban fighting in modern American terrain,
- What authorities can do to mitigate the risks ahead,
- Vehicular gunfights, and
- Mitigating the risks of air-delivered munitions.
This book is how average people, with no military or law enforcement skills, can survive an armed conflict a modern American suburban neighborhood. Military and police tactics have been adapted for realistic scenarios that civilians might face.
Don Shift is a veteran of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office and an avid fan of post-apocalyptic literature and film. He is a student of disasters, history, current events, and holds several FEMA emergency management certifications. His works include the non-fiction Suburban Defense and Rural Home Defense, the Ventura Sheriff EMP series of novels (Hard Favored Rage and Blood Dimmed Tide), Late For Doomsday, and Limited Exchange, both nuclear war survival stories.
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- Gary
- 06-04-24
excellent advice
A concise method for dealing with SHFT and to developing a plan to survive. These are the answer you give friend and Family.
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- Verified Amazon Customer
- 05-25-24
Excellent book
Very good ideas in here that I have not heard talked about anywhere else. Going to buy the actual book as well!
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- Sal Azar
- 03-16-25
Good book
It had way more information than I thought and is very useful. It’s not one of those silly doomsday proper end of world books. it offers practical advice
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- Carol
- 03-16-25
AI voice reads you copaganda
Written by a former cop that mainly gives very limited advice and comes up short in most areas. They seem to have been most thorough in trying to explain why the police are not to be counted on while trying to still make them sound like heroes.
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