Individual Travel Protective Measures (ITPM)

About the Book

If you travel or work overseas and are interested in learning how to enhance your personal security, then this book is for you. Individual Travel Protective Measures and Other Helpful Hints focuses on passive measures that have been proven over the years. This book will provide instruction to the reader on how to become a “hard target” and how to better blend into the cultural environment in which he or she might find him or herself. It logically walks the reader through the planning phase to and including the execution of the reader’s travel abroad.

About the Author

John Weaver has served as an officer in the United States Army (culminating at the rank of lieutenant colonel) and has over 20+ years of experience. Since entering active duty, he has lived and worked on four continents and in 19 countries spending nearly eight years overseas (on behalf of the US government). His experience includes multiple combat deployments, peace enforcement, peacekeeping, humanitarian relief and disaster assistance support in both conventional and unconventional/non-traditional units. He has received formal training/certification in the following areas from the US Department of Defense: Survival/Evasion/Resistance/ Escape (high risk), communications equipment & communications planning (FM radio, land line & satellite communications, encryption, and the use of cryptographic devices), digital camera use & digital photography courses, US Special Operations Command counterintelligence awareness course (USSOCOM CI), joint antiterrorism course, defense against suicide bombing course, homeland security and defense course, the joint special operations task force course (JSOTF), defensive driving course, vehicle emergency drills (battle drills), composite risk management, and more. Additionally, he graduated from NATO’s Combined Joint Operations Center course in Oberammergau Germany. John earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business management from Towson University in 1990 and graduated from Central Michigan University with a Master of Science in Administration degree in 1995.