James Wesley Rawles (James Wesley, Rawles, born 1960) is an American author, former U.S. Army Intelligence officer, and survival retreat consultant. He is author of the best-selling thriller Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse, and proponent of the "American Redoubt", a survivalist refuge in the American Northwest. == Early life and military career == Rawles presents his name as "James Wesley, Rawles", using a comma to differentiate between the names that belong to him, and that which belo…