Signal in the Storm II: When Society Fractures - Softcover

Felix, Terence

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798234039552

Publisher: Partisan Comms Group, LLC, 2026

Synopsis

Signal in the Storm II: When Society Fractures begins where the first volume leaves off. The first book focused on capability: how to build, operate, and maintain resilient communications systems when normal infrastructure becomes unreliable. This volume asks a harder question: What happens when the equipment still works, but the environment around it begins to fracture? What happens when information is abundant, but clarity is scarce? When rumors compete with facts, trust erodes, leadership falters, infrastructure becomes strained, and decisions must still be made with incomplete information?

Signal in the Storm II examines communication under pressure; not simply as a technical discipline, but as a problem of judgment, behavior, trust, and responsibility. Drawing from historical events, communications failures, civil unrest, infrastructure disruption, emergency networks, and firsthand experience during the 2026 Reno wildfires. The book explores how systems actually degrade through overload, fragmentation, misinformation, fatigue, human error, and sometimes complete failure. It examines what makes communications networks resilient, why redundancy without training is insufficient, how operators can avoid amplifying uncertainty, and why the person behind the equipment often becomes the most important part of the system.

Edition details

• Publisher: Partisan Comms Group, LLC
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798234039552
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Felix Christine