Former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer and survivalist James Wesley, Rawles is a well-known survival lecturer and author. Rawles is the editor of SurvivalBlog.com-the nation's most popular blog on family preparedness. He live in an undisclosed location west of the Rockies. He is the author of the bestselling "Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse" and a nonfiction survival guide, "How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It."