[o_zarkman44]

If people think you have a good store of food and other survival items, they will just crash your door down and kill you and take your stuff. Even if you think you have your position well defended, desperate people will study your perimeter for weakness. They will be relentless because they NEED what you have, ALL OF IT. Sharing a little just tips them off that you have more and are holding out.

You and your family’s life have no value to desperate people.

Go to survivalblog.com and read “Retreat Security. I am Your Worst Nightmare”. You will never take your security for granted again.

[Kartographer]

Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon.
Quark-Deep Space Nine

[I Buried My Guns]

"...Go to survivalblog.com and read “Retreat Security. I am Your Worst Nightmare”. ..."

I did. I read it. Very helpful.

If I may add to the base of wisdom: at the bottom of that page on survivalblog is a link that says "The Defense of Duffer's Drift". Although written in 1905, it really opened my eyes to the military concepts of cover, concealment, and preparation of the battle space. I highly recommend it.

The author goes through the same scenario 5 times, and each time he improves his defenses and more thouroughly thinks out his predicament. In the first 4 rounds, he loses (to the Boers).