My latest podcast appearance is with CCW Safe https://ccwsafe.com/series/ . The topic is The Armed Defender’s Dilemma Lesson 9: Maintain Situational Awareness. It is available for both reading on their website https://ccwsafe.com/series/lesson-9-maintain-situational-awareness/article/lesson9-podcast/ and listening on various podcast sites, including YouTube.

A topic I brought up was about Decision Points. They are often overlooked in the community, especially the concept of forcing the Decision Point.

“[I]t’s called a Decision Point, and that was always very important to me to look at that. And I think about it now in our context of ‘[H]ow do we force the Decision Point on the situation where it’s to our advantage as opposed to the predator’s[?]’”

Whenever possible, we want to avoid becoming decisively engaged https://thetacticalprofessor.net/2014/06/25/situational-awareness-and-positioning-part-i/ and having to fight the engagement to a conclusion by ourselves. Forcing the Decision Point makes the predator react to us rather than us react to them. We can put Boyd’s Process https://thetacticalprofessor.net/2025/02/16/more-again-about-boyd-and-ooda/ to work for ourselves this way.

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