Barbed wire

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Deploying barbed wire when in an SHTF situation

Barbed wire
Easy to deploy in a defensive situation, but should you?

Perimeter security: should you employ concertina wire?
Barbed wire, also called concertina wire, Dannert Wire, or razor
wire is great to have for an SHTF situation, or is it?

Made of galvanized steel, concertina wire is aimed at prevention
of entry by people or animals. It's popular with farmers. It's also
used by the military to create obstacles and in prisons to prevent
escape. Right now it's being employed by the U.S. Military to
secure the U.S. border.

There are reasons the military, prisons and farmers employ use of
barbed wire when creating trenches or defending borders, but the
most important reason is that it's effective. Barbed wire is
something you may like to deploy in an SHTF-situation, but there
are some things to consider before doing it...

Before Deploying Barbed Wire...
It's a natural defense barrier. It's flexible and, but should you
have some on hand when the world goes dark and there's no rule
of law?

Before you deploy barbed wire consider the following:

#1: Cheap defensive tool.
Barbed wire is an effective defensive tool because it's cheap, it's
easy to deploy and doesn't require maintenance. These are just
some of the reasons why it's extremely popular with the military,
particularly in creating trenches and in defending borders.

There are many kinds of barbed wire. Concertina wire, or Dannert
Wire, is barbed wire that's formed in large coils and it expands.
Concertina wire has a broad security fencing option because it has
anti-climb and anti-cutting properties. Compared to a mesh or
chain link fence there's no contest on it's effectiveness as a
deterrent. One will injure you immediately, the other is a simply a
challenge to climb over.

#2: Not so good for neighbors.
Good fences make good neighbors, but this doesn't apply to
barbed wire, unless it's for making a crude cattle fencing. Even
then you'll need to give it careful thought.

#3: Even if for cattle fencing, beware!
Barbed wire is effective, but you may harm yourself. It could be
that you'll have a huge vet bill or you might injure yourself by
deploying razor wire if you're not extremely careful. This will
potentially leave with problems in good times or leave you with
more serious problems when you can't get medical help in bad
times.

#4: Check with local laws.
Be sure to check local laws for using razor wire. In Texas you
can't use razor wire in any canal, lateral, reservoir or lake, for
example.

#5: Barriers for captivity.
Prisons have long used barbed wire for keeping prisoners from
escaping. When Democrats set up Japanese Internment Camps
during World War II under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in
1942, they used it too. It was a racist concentration camp that
American history books glosses over.

In these camps, barbed wire was used to maintain control of the
captive population. The barbed wire fences of Japanese
internment camps were snipped with cutting wire to get supplies
from kind people who recognized the inequities.

#6: Border security.
As three separate migrant caravans make their way through
Mexico in November 2018, U.S. troops worked to set up barbed
wire fences in place of a border wall.