Before Terror Strikes: Learn the Tactical Mindsets and Skillsets Necessary to Survive a Terrorist Event Before It Occurs - Hardcover

by William Michael Seddon Sr (Author)

BEFORE TERROR STRIKES: Learn the Tactical Mindsets and Skillsets Necessary to Survive a Terrorist Event Before It Occurs is an insightful book that will be more likely, as opposed to less likely to keep you and your family alive while living in the era of terror. It is a wise resource that focuses on mitigating the risk of becoming a victim; a precise travel book that teaches you and your family how to develop tactical mindsets and skillsets, and anyone from an average citizen to an elite trained professional how to prevent, escape or defend against terrorist attacks while traveling in a civilized society. It teaches how not to be a passive "frozen-up" victim of the terrorist attack and survive by knowing how to act and react in many life-threatening situations while traveling in any city. What would you do if you found yourself in the parking lot and you started taking sniper fire? Or during Christmas holiday season you are shopping in a crowded mall, and someone begins spraying automatic weapons fire... Or you are picking up your luggage in a baggage claim area in the airport, and someone starts throwing hand grenades... What would you do? If you have never thought these and other similar scenarios through, you are most likely to react with recklessness by endangering yourself and all those around you, to freeze-up and become a helpless victim awaiting rescue. However, these eventual possibilities can be prevented by learning and applying the mindsets and skillsets this book teaches. Using this book as a self-help tactical training manual will allow you and your family to be among those who are less likely to get seriously hurt or killed in a life-threatening terror attack. Terrorist proverb states, "Why hunt a tiger when there are many sheep to be had." Would you rather be a tiger or a sheep? Learning and applying the anti-terrorism and counterterrorism mindsets and skillsets will provide the opportunity for you and your family to tactically change by becoming a "hard target/tiger", rather than being a "soft target/sheep". Understand that terrorists only fear, respect and submit to one thing, a force stronger than them. Terrorists continue to regroup, adjust their tactics and realign their strategies as they set out to hunt "sheep". Most people think that this life threatening social problem can be solved by just ignoring it, and therefore those people are living in the following three states: (1) State of Denial, believing that this will not or cannot happen to them or their family; (2) State of Ignorance, thinking that this happens elsewhere or something they hear on the news; (3) State of "La La Land", a pre-9/11 mindset of innocent magical thinking where one lives with a false sense of security in a protective "bubble". If one lives in any of these states, they are more likely to become a victim of a terrorist attack. This book will become an invaluable time tested investment since it is condensed with tactical knowledge that will easily transition an untrained public thinking mind into a well trained military tactical thinking mind, something that terrorists fear: a civilian population trained to think and posture like "tigers", thus eliminating their opportunity for targeting "soft targets/sheep", protecting you and your family from becoming victims of their attacks. You and your family can beat these coward terrorists at their own game by becoming tactically wise and outfoxing their tactics, that will make you less likely to become their victim

Author Biography

William Michael Seddon Sr., M.S., Certified Anti-Terrorism Specialist, served in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps for over 13 years. He was a Marine Training Instructor and is the founder of 7th Stratagem, an anti/counterterrorism consulting company. Mr. Seddon has three sons, two of whom are former U.S. Marines, and twin granddaughters. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.