Jeff Cooper 
Principles of Personal Defense 

It is a classic, timeless work, encap -sulated in a clear, concise, and succinctform. And like a twentieth-century Western Civilization equivalent of Musashi’s seventeenth-century Book of Five Rings, it shouldbe read, studied, and then periodicallyreread and restudied. No matter how manytimes you read it, you will always find onemore pearl of wisdom that you missedduring the last read. Principles of Personal Defense is thefighting man’s guide to mental conditioning- plain and simple. And there is nobetter work on the subject – period. Maybe the Glory Days are gone, and Baby’s throaty roar no longer rings outover the Yavapai hills, but the wisdomand knowledge are laid out in print forperpetuity. All you have to do is read andlearn . . . Louis Awerbuck January 2006FOREWORD