September 6, 2025
Day 1,436 of the Adventure
There is an interesting and not well known or understood component of our national security entitled the "Homeland Threat Assessment". It's the annual summary of the greatest threats facing our country as compiled by the Department of Homeland Security. It's a report that takes into consideration any factors that represent tangible threats to the safety of the country and citizens. Within the annual reports, there are four basic categories. 1) Public Safety and Security, 2) Border and Immigration Security, 3) Critical Infrastructure Security, and 4) Threats to Economic Security. Obviously, the threat assessment report is a broad reaching study that summarizes the greatest risks to the country as a whole. However, while we typically rely on our government to concern itself with these large-scale threats, we tend to dismiss them from a personal planning perspective. Does this approach lead to a complacency on our part? In some ways, I think it does. Obviously, none of us individually can have much of an effect on nationwide threats. That doesn't mean that we can't take measures to minimize those threat's impact on us. Every one of the four "threat categories" reaches as far as our quiet mid-south homestead. Some to a larger degree than others. In our quest to build a quiet life in the woods, we are very aware that a state of preparedness for outside influences is an appropriate fit for the life we are building here. Whether it's economic, infrastructure, crime or some other factor, a measured attempt to be prepared for it feels right. More later.
Carry On
Adventure Quote: “Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.” ― Cody Lundin
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