Resistance to Tyranny By Col. Joseph P. MartinoResistance to Tyranny is a big picture primer for the oppressed who are seriously considering resisting tyranny anywhere in the world. In Chapter 1, Why Armed Resistance , Col. Martino takes the reader through a easy to understand walk through of the process of determining the moral justification for a successful armed resistance by borrowing, and applying, as a guideline the ethical code developed for the Just War Doctrine, element by element, of which he is an authority. He concludes, given just cause, that citizens have a moral obligation to resist Tyranny the moment resistance is justified. Since "war is an adventure from which there is no return (Pope John-Paul II)" this is easily the most important chapter in this authoritative compendium.Chapter 2-6 examine in detail the probability of success and the various factors and trends that effect the final outcome of a armed resistance to tyranny. The government's response to the resistance and the various approaches it may take to create a crisis to justify the repressive measures typically used to crush the resistance. He discusses strategy and tactics and why you need both to achieve the ultimate goal of the resistance. Col. Martino identifies the continuing key strategy of the resistance is "to survive, to survive, to survive, and the key to this strategy to by choosing to fight only when it does not endanger the armed resistance. He explains why it is critical to the success of the resistance movement to take into account the other big picture elements of the overall opposition effort that include the government, the family's of the armed wing, the population at large, threaten minorities, and foreigners in order to achieve the ultimate goal of replacing the existing government. Col. Martino discusses why a successful armed resistance also needs an apparently unconnected, unarmed and nonviolent, overt wing that is able to appear in public to gain sympathy and support from other groups within and outside the country.Chapters 7-29 examine an extremely extensive laundry-list of training, skills, operations, and logistics critical or useful to an armed resistance effort. Highlights of these include weapons, booby traps, explosive, secure camps and safe houses, secure communications, cyber warfare & hacking, intelligence, counter- intelligence, deception operations, and propaganda techniques necessary in gaining the support of the public, the world public, and undermine morale and legitimacy of the government and its forces. Each chapter is chock-full with enough detailed condensed information concerning each topic, and extensive references to more detailed supporting material, to enable a beginning resistance to initiate operations efficiently in with minimal wasted effort.Resistance to Tyranny is an extensive scholarly work that walks the reader through step by step the through the planning, and resources necessary for a resistance to be successful. Col. Martino's logic is precise as a mathematician, his examples succinct, and relevant to providing a citizens resistance organization with the fundamental knowledge necessary to begin a successful armed resistance. Resistance to Tyranny by Col. Joseph P. Martino is easy to understand, an excellent beginning for a patriotic layman, and a checklist to success for the professional soldier.As a professional combat infantry special operations veteran, and experienced soldier of misfortune in the Burmese resistance for Democracy, I cannot recommend Resistance To Tyranny enough! No other modern book on this topic even comes close.