PROJECT UPDATES
What we've been doing, where we've been travelling to, and what's next.
New book release
Today we're delighted (and somewhat relieved) to announce the release of our fourth and final field guide:
The Field Guide to Transport Security
This field guide is focused on keeping you and your team safe while you're on the road in complex and higher-risk environments.
Driving in developing countries and higher-risk environments poses specific risks to your safety and security. Even relatively routine events like a flat tire can expose you and your team to a host of known and unknown risks. Fortunately, many of the risks inherent with driving in higher-risk environments can be mitigated through effective planning and preparation. At the same time, you’ll need to have comprehensive contingency plans in place for when things go wrong.
This field guide covers a range of topics relating to vehicle operations, including understanding your operating environment, vehicle selection and preparation, driving, route and convoy planning, security escorts, armoured vehicles, communications, operational security and contingencies.
Previous book releases
This latest field guide follows the four other books released in the last few months:
1. The Guide to Travelling in Higher-Risk Environments
2. The Field Guide to Deployment Planning
3. The Field Guide to Personal Security
4. The Field Guide to Accommodation Security
All of the field guides are now available for download as PDF from our website (follow the links above). All books are also available on the Apple Bookstore (available in 51 countries). Pricing is the same across all platforms.
We have also released a bundle of all four field guides in PDF format at a slightly discounted price.
Thank you again to everyone who has purchased a copy of these books last month, particularly to those who have bought the bundles. The feedback thus far has been encouraging.
If you read the books and find any errors or inconsistencies, please let me know and I’ll add it to a backlog for the next review and release. Similarly, if you believe there's something I've missed that you think should be included in these guides, give me a shout by email.
Please help to spread the word
Writing is hard, and knowing that people are buying and reading these books makes it worthwhile. Please help to spread the word.
Upcoming releases
The Field Guide to Transport Security is the end of the road (pun intended) for the field guides at this time. I'm open to suggestions on additions to the series, but right now these four volumes cover the bulk of topics for being able to operate successfully in higher-risk environments. I'm exploring other important aspects of the work, including personal resilience, but these may be better as stand alone articles.
We have two other books in development. One book will focus on designing and delivering world-class crisis simulations. The other book focuses on the planning and execution of security evacuations. I've been working on these books for the past few years, and it will be great to finally complete them and release them out into the world. I'm also looking at designing a premium version of The Guide to Travelling in Higher-Risk Environments, dialing up the style and formatting and adding pictures.
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