Paranoid Book of the Month
Picked this month because the Strait of Hormuz is in the news again, and the coverage assumes you already know why a channel twenty miles wide moves the price of everything.
Marshall's answer is that geography sets the options before politics gets a vote. A fifth of the world's oil leaves through one strait; a country that can close it holds a lever it did not have to build. The same chapter explains the Bosphorus, Malacca and the Danish straits, and once you have read it the shipping news stops being background noise.
It will not tell you what to buy. It tells you what to watch, and noticing a thing early is the cheapest preparation there is.
Paranoid Guides
- Documents and Financial ResilienceRead +
- How to Build an Evacuation BagRead +
- How to Build a First Aid KitRead +
- Emergency Food SupplyRead +
- Growing and Preserving FoodRead +
- Safes and Secure StorageRead +
- Concealment and DiversionRead +
- Cash at HomeRead +
- Physical Gold and SilverRead +
- Barter GoodsRead +
Free Government and NGO Resources
- Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987 Edition)Cresson Kearny, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Full book, public domain.Open +
- FEMA: Protection in the Nuclear AgeFallout shelter designs, ventilation requirements, supply lists, and wind pattern data.Open +
- The Family Fallout Shelter (MP-15)U.S. Office of Civil Defense, 1959. Shelter types with construction plans and ventilation specs.Open +
- Where There Is No DoctorHesperian Foundation. The essential austere medicine reference, free from the publisher.Open +
- Emergency War Surgery (NATO)Borden Institute. Military surgical reference: advanced but invaluable for trained medical personnel.Open +
- Survival and Austere Medicine (3rd Ed.)Community-written medical preparedness manual. Free download from authors.Open +
- US Army Map Reading & Land Navigation (FM 3-25.26)Public domain. The military standard for terrain navigation with map and compass.Open +
The Essential Shelf
