Everything Has to Start Somewhere

I have been concerned with the dismal state of civil defense in this country, both on the personal level and on that of our government. The former is getting better, with a recent surge in a revitalized prepper community, and hopefully that continues and won't stall. The latter, however, that's pretty shameful.

For decades, the US government has essentially ignored a Civil Defense (CD) role to protect The People. Many of our allies around the globe have kept up a CD tradition, as have a number of our enemies. The Russian efforts in particular have been historically and are presently better than our own. For all the talk of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) doctrine, the Russians don't seem to be convinced that the destruction is necessarily mutual, or assured. The building and upgrading of their CD infrastructure would make no sense if they believed that nuclear war wasn't survivable.

With that in mind, I thought I would start this blog to discuss the things that are on my mind regarding CD, and to start reaching out to rebuild at least a strong network of private-sector CD organizations. The goal is to generate an infectious reconnect of government CD, if we can.

My final inspiration today was a very interesting video on YouTube that originally aired in Great Britain 36 years ago. What struck me was the similarity of England's CD woes of 1980 to our present day apathy. Take a look: