While we at Holistic Survival think owning a gun for defense of your home us a great idea, please don’t head down to your local pawn shop to buy the biggest, baddest on the block just yet. There are a few factors you should take into consideration before purchasing a handgun, especially if you’re unfamiliar [...]

Though city survival during emergency conditions is a little more problematical than the country, it can still be done. With less storage space, it requires a bit more creativity to figure out where to stash everything but the process remains the same. You’re going to need to take care of your beans, bullets, and Band-Aids. [...]

For those in the reading audience younger than us, cinematic memory might not stretch back far enough to encompass a set of movies starring Sylvester Stallone as the ex-Vietnam vet John Rambo. Beginning with First Blood in 1982 and continuing through three sequels, this cagey woodsman traveled the globe righting wrongs in a spectacularly bloody [...]

The Cold War has been over for a while now but the amount of money spent on military might still boggles the mind. How many guns, bombs, troops, and bases around the world are enough? This isn’t just a debate for isolationists versus interventionists. This is a matter of how much of the budgetary strain [...]