Principles of personal defense
by Jeff Cooper · first published 1989
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> About the "quickness" I am asking for, If a gun is pointed at me Read Principles of Personal Defense and/or To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth by Jeff Cooper
on “Ask HN: How to train yourself to become a quick thinker?” ↗…Harbor. The intended audience for the work, to quote from the preface, was "the general reader rather than the professional sailor." There are two very tight and short books on self-defense, Jeff Cooper Principles of Personal Defense and Massad Ayoob's In the Gravest Extreme, The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection, "Just the facts, ma'am", firearm centric but wonderfully focused. ADDED: Sun Tzu's The Art of War is itself…
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