First let’s define “capacity.” Capacity is how much of something we have. Think about your “capacity” in terms of beans, bullets and band-aids. For food, your capacity might be 72-hours’ worth of food in a bug-out-bag, or 1-year supply for 4 people. Your capacity for bullets might be 1,000 rounds for rifles and 500 rounds per pistol. For band-aids, you might have 10 boxes of 4×4 gauze pads, 2 boxes of gauze rollers and 2 rolls of tape enough to dress one small wound for about a week. When your capacity runs out, you have no more unless you somehow resupply.
Many of us are very good at building our capacity to meet set goals. Some of us don’t have set goals for capacity. For example, we see many preppers write that they “never have enough ammunition” or perhaps they add a bag of rice to their stores every month regardless of how much they have already and plan to continue that practice indefinitely. There is nothing wrong with this strategy but we need to ensure that all our needs for the long run are addressed in our preparedness efforts and that is where building capabilities comes into play.
We can define a capability as our ability to “do something.” Many of our Prepper capabilities are very easy to identify. Let’s go back to the old beans, bullets and band-aids mantra. We need to have a capability to provide nutrition, protection and healthcare. It is very easy to go out and simply buy something to fulfill a need. But does simply buying beans, bullets and band-aids really build a capability?Continue reading“Are You Building Capacity or Capability?, by 3ADScout”
