Mini-Manual For Urban Defenders
A book by the prestigious John Spencer on how to fight in defense of your neighbors and yourself.
John Spencer is an award-winning scholar, professor, author, combat veteran, and internationally recognized expert and advisor on urban warfare, military strategy, tactics, and other military related topics.
Considered the world’s leading expert on urban warfare, he served as an advisor to the top four-star general and other senior leaders in the U.S. Army as part of strategic research groups from the Pentagon to the United States Military Academy.
Spencer currently serves as the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies with the Madison Policy Forum. He recently served as the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, Co-Director of the Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban Warfare Project podcast. He also served as a Colonel in the California State Guard with assignment to the 40th Infantry Division, California Army National Guard as the Director of Urban Warfare Training.
Serving over twenty-five years in the active United States Army as an infantry soldier, Spencer has held ranks from Private to Sergeant First Class and Second Lieutenant to Major. His assignments as an Army officer included two urban-centric combat deployments to Iraq as both an Infantry Platoon Leader and Company Commander, a Ranger Instructor with the Army’s elite Ranger School, a member of the Joint Chief of Staff and Army Staff, military advisor on the Chief of Staff of the Army’s Strategic Studies Group, and Co-Founder, Strategic Planner, and Deputy Director of the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York where he also taught a broad range of subjects from military tactics to strategy.
He is the author of the books Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War and Understanding Urban Warfare.
Mr. Spencer has placed his consolidated twenty-five years of real combat experience online as a freely distributed instruction guide for waging a war against a superior attacking force (whomever it might be) and winning even when the odds are technically not on your side … if you are without understanding of the subject. A bit of knowledge is truly a dangerous thing … especially to your enemies.
Veterans have called it the “DON’T TREAD ON ME BOOK for BEGINNERS.”
This is a great scene from TERMINATOR SALVATION showing children beating an ancient terminator using simple physics traps. It also illustrates robots who can adapt and strategize but are baffled by the unexpected.
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www.johnspenceronline.com
Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
Psalm 144:1-2 KJV
Regards, Tex
As proved in Aurora, CO, marauding gangs can strike anywhere and by design. Self defense knowledge cannot be more needed today than in any other time that I can think of. Thank you 😊
What I am most concerned about at this time is how to respond to something like noted in this video, then 3-5 days later as the lack of power and food cause the outflow of mobs and gangs from the cities looking for food and whatever they can find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd-bNxtmwcU