James Wesley Rawles

James Wesley Rawles is the founder and editor-in-chief of SurvivalBlog.com, the most popular website on the Internet dedicated to family survival preparedness. He is a world-renowned expert on a wide range of survival preparedness topics, including food and fuel storage, self-defense, communications, shelter security, "bug-out" bags, survival vehicles, shelter architecture, self-sufficiency gardening, limited livestock raising, and a wide variety of traditional wilderness self-sufficiency skills. The author is a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer. Those who seek his advice on preparedness and survival include senior executives featured in Fortune magazine's annual lists, clergy, entrepreneurs, and stockbrokers. A highly influential figure in the modern survival preparedness movement, Rawles practices what he preaches: he and his family live in a well-stocked and fully self-sufficient retreat, hidden in a mountain range "somewhere west of the Rockies." Rawles is also the author of "Patriots," a survival novel set during an impending collapse, which critics describe as "a survival manual wrapped in a well-written fiction."