In part one of this two-part series, we asked and answered a lot of important questions about our preparedness to win. If you haven’t yet read part one, please do so before reading one, for it is the foundation on which that what follows is built.

Winning on the street comes in many forms and means different things to different people.

Winning in law enforcement encounters can be gaining voluntary compliance through communication and negotiation or it can ebb and flow back and forth through a vast array of outcomes up to and including deadly force. Winning to the cop means one thing, while to an adversary winning on his terms is quite another.

"No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in the mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes" ~Napoleon Hill

Field Command is the single most important book written for law enforcement on strategy and tactics, mission planning and decision making under pressure. The author takes the principles of warfare and translates them to the law enforcement roll of protecting and serving society. The tactics and principles discussed in the book are sound. The leadership and command and control methodologies stem around the need for a much, much higher level of professionalism and critical skills development and a clearly defined mission and intent from law enforcement agencies.

More thoughts from Chet Richards on agility, sensing yourself and the world around you as you interact and accord with adversarial changes.

More analysis on Boyd’s theories from Chet Richards in his latest post at Fast Transients, Why Boyd is agile: Keep in mind when Chet speaks of agile, fast transients and adaptability, he is speaking to the not only the physical dimension but the moral and mental dimensions of conflict as well.

In crisis situations are you closed minded and locked into one specific way of handling situations or are you open minded and adapt tactics to meet the circumstances you find yourself in as you attempt to solve tactical dilemma’s?  Is your chosen method wrapped up in a sole technique you learned or, have you learned to artfully apply tactics based on the foundational principles in realization the the foundation or checklist alone may not help you in reaching sound decisions and the outcomes you seek?  The foundational principles are important but we all to often this is, where w

I read Deadly Force: Firearms and American Law Enforcement, from the Wild West to the Streets of Today by Chris