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Rory Miller is a writer and teacher living peacefully in the Pacific Northwest.
He has served for seventeen years in corrections as an officer and sergeant working maximum security, booking and mental health; leading a tactical team; and teaching subjects ranging from Defensive Tactics and Use of Force to First Aid and Crisis Communications with the Mentally Ill. For fourteen months he was an advisor to the Iraqi Corrections System working in Baghdad and Kurdish Sulaymaniyah. Somewhere in the midst of that he received a BS degree in Psychology; served in the National Guard as a Combat Medic (91A/B); earned college varsities in judo and fencing and received a mokuroku in jujutsu. He has drunk chichu with reformed cannibals and 18-year-old scotch with generals...and loves long sword fights on the beach.
- Meet the Author: Rory Miller author of "Meditations on Violence" chats with Gene Ching (video), September 21, 2023
- The Fight, January 18, 2021
- The Lowest Level of Force, December 7, 2020
- Simple Drills Worth Knowing, January 30, 2017
- Evaluating Drills—Part 2, October 31, 2016
- Evaluating Drills—Part 1, October 24, 2016
- DRILL: The One-Step, September 26, 2016
- Not Parlor Tricks, September 12, 2016
- DRILL: The One-Step, August 29, 2016
- Training for Sudden Violence, August 15, 2016
- Self-Defense: A Unique Teaching Challenge, June 27, 2016
- Hooks in Violent and Non Violent Encounters, January 12, 2016
- Boundary Setting—Society's Rules, August 3, 2015
- Don’t Take It Personally, June 15, 2015
- The Why and Wherefore of Conflict Communication, June 9, 2015
- The Practical Problem of Teaching Self-Defense, January 19, 2015
- Common Sources of Knowledge About Violence, March 31, 2014
- Teaching Joint Locks, February 3, 2014
- The Three Golden Rules, December 24, 2012
- A Police Officer’s View of Scaling Force, September 3, 2012
- An Introduction to Force Decisions, April 30, 2012
- How to Evaluate a Force Decision, April 16, 2012
- Counter Assault: Surviving Attacks, September 12, 2011
- Counter Assault: Attack from the Front, September 5, 2011
- Facing Violence: The Unconscious Stuff-Finding Your Glitches, August 1, 2011
- More About Violence Dynamics, May 23, 2011
- Violence Dynamics, May 16, 2011
- Self-defense: Down and Dirty, May 9, 2011
- The Seven Aspects of Self-defense, January 13, 2010
- Meditations on Violence, May 22, 2008
