For me, the clearest take-away in his book is from his examples of SIGINT locating targets during his wartime deployments. The lesson: if you're using transmitting while facing a first world army, you die. Might as well be using signal fires at night on the Great Plaines as to use a transmitter in a war, without
very SERIOUS training and methods to do so.
1. Commander Bilbec occupies the region,
2. Declares all radio transmission illegal, likely demands all equipment surrendered to his forces.
3. His SIGINT locates transmitters.
4. Steel on target
problem solved.
5. Repeat as necessary.
Food for thought,
de Sir John Honeybucket
Ps. Are there methods to make Joe Ham slightly more survivable? Yes, but then again, Joe Ham is probably not a green beret communications sergeant. I know that I am not.