A majority of America’s leaders and military officials are expressing fears of what they view to be an emerging threat to national security, the hybrid threat. The common definition found regarding hybrid threat is “the diverse and dynamic combination of regular forces, irregular forces, and/or criminal elements all unified to achieve mutually benefitting effects.” But, how truly new is this warfare and threat? Haven’t “partnerships” amongst different fractions/groups been ongoing since the development of civilized communities? And, hasn’t America been viewed by our fellow nations as a hybrid threat conducting hybrid warfare for several decades? In the following paragraphs an operation involving the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in combination
A threat assessment is where all possible direct and indirect threats are identified and what
Blalock’s threat curve (4) is used to visually show the differences between police expenditures and the percent of blacks living in the cities. The threat curve is a graph to find the majority group’s inclination to protect the certain areas that they live in (Jackson, 4, 1989). The threat curve is used to show the correlation between the white population’s capability to exercise police expenditures based on the visibility of minority groups in a particular area. The idea that with the increasing presence of minority groups in a mainly white area that the police expenditures in that area will also increase. Once the minority group becomes the majority, more than 50%, then the police expenditures will start to decrease. The idea is based on the social context of a given city and the social control of the majority group will disturb the curve.
With at least 13 ambush shooting of law enforcement during the last few weeks, Minneapolis police are making changes to how they handle 911 calls. Ambush shootings of officers nationwide were up 50% in 2014 and today's numbers stand at a 70% increase over 2015! Washington-based National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund says ambush-style attacks are the leading method in the surging numbers of shooting deaths of law enforcement officers.
Threat can be divides into 4 various types. The first type is classic threat which is not only threat for OSN user but also threat for the user who plays the internet without the OSN user. The second type is modern threat which is the unique threat for their privacy and security of OSN user. The third threat is combination threat which is the combination of today’s threat, what things that attacker can do? , What thing that attacker often do. The fourth type is threat targeting for children which is the threat specify target for children who use social network.
Witness, Cody Inegrigtsen, was driving in the area of 125th PL SE and SE 318th Way, when he noticed a young male, James Richardson, assaulting a young female, Kayla Buss. Cody noted that he saw James grab Kayla by the hair and back of her shirt and strike her several times in the head and face. Cody then saw Kayla attempted to walk away from James, but noted that James again grabbed Kayla by her hair and back of her jacket and strike her several more times in head and face area. Kayla and James were contacted a few blocks from the orignal incident. It was noticed by police that Kayla and a swollen lower lip and it was observed that she had several small cuts also on her lower lip. Both Kayla, who is 15 years old , and James, who is 16 years
I arrived at approximately 6:55. Due to the Savannah Tech financial aid department dropping Doyle, Pirl, Jones, Ports, and Pruett from our class, starting our work in the classroom was delayed. This left Duck, Skeele, and I with little to do until Chief Robertson fired up the FATS machine. We started by running one of the practice scenarios where moving targets are placed on what appears to be a European street. This was set up at my request, and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. After all three of us had a chance to shoot, Chief Robertson gave us a new practice that we have never tried. This one had a series of numbers lined up much like a key pad on a telephone. When instructed the shooter would engage a certain numbers, or series of numbers. After this
CAN YOU RECOUNT A PARTICULAR INCIDENT FROM YOUR SERVICE WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN FUNNY AT THE TIME, BUT STILL MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Prompt: As a company officer, what does “transitional attack mean to you, and how will it affect your tactics?
The United States Army’s shift to counterinsurgency over the last 15 years directed changes in all aspects of the service. This shift directed the Army’s emphasis away from the large conventional conflicts to counterinsurgency. During this shift counterintelligence spent the last 15 years mastering its role. Now the Army is adapting again due to the ever changing conflicts in the world. The 39th US Army Chief of Staff, General Milley, stated that the US Army needs to “re-focus on conventional training”. Since counterintelligence supports the maneuver it is continuing to adapt. Counterintelligence support to combined arms maneuver throughout unified land operations is not completely new to counterintelligence. Pre-counterinsurgency doctrine covers specific tasks and duties for counterintelligence personnel and are applicable today. Discussed below are the aspects of counterintelligence support to unified land operations in the offense and defense against the conventional threat of a hybrid force.
The monograph I chose for my final project is called “Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920’s” by Angela J. Latham. Latham is a Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Governors State University, and had earned a Master’s degree in Communication/Performance studies and her Ph.D. in Theatre History. Latham’s work “focuses on women’s performances in late 19th and early 20th century America.” Latham has only wrote one book, however “she has directed, acted, and wrote peer-reviewed journal publications, such as “Momma,” “Packaging Women: The Concurrent Rise of Beauty Pageants, Public Bathing, and other performances of ‘Nudity’,” and several more.” After learning about Angela Latham’s background, I suspect that the monograph I have chosen will be well researched and will have a ton of supporting evidence, considering her Ph.D. in theatre history and her other works in the same field of
In about 20 sessions, he will teach you how to effectively defend against all of the most common violent attacks. You will learn how to survive unarmed assaults including strikes, kicks, grabs and hair pulls. You will also learn how to turn the tables on an attacker that wields a knife, a gun, a stick or a bat.
Information privacy is becoming a controversial subject across the globe in the heat of preventative terrorist methods.
As mentioned previously, we believe that the APT involved in our attack is in the weaponized phase of an attack. In this phase, the APT will used the information he or she obtained from the reconnaissance phase to develop a weapon (i.e. malware with an additional payload) specifically designed to target our weaknesses. The common method for delivery is email; however, it could be a fake website that users are redirected to. For example, users access their social media accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter, or even the previously mentioned LinkenIn) and they open a private message with an attachment or link to the fake website where the user inadvertently launches the cleverly designed attack. In creating the weaponized attack, APTs have access
There were several conditions that lead up to the end of the cold war, not the least of which was the Soviet Union’s respect for the economic impact of Strategic Defense System that President Reagan was proposing at the time (Shultz, 2013). When Mikhail Gorbachev took over as Soviet Premier, he and President Reagan were able to come to agreements to reduce nuclear weapons and for the Soviet to pull out of Afghanistan. This lead to the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union, which was a good thing. However, like everything in life, there are alway unintended consequences. In this case, the void that the pullout of the Soviet Union left in the Middle East became a breeding ground for Hezbollah and for what we now know of as ISIS.
The final area that we need to examine for the SWOT analysis of K3 is the threats. The obvious threats to K3 are the other two competitors, MITT and The Batter’s Box. The fact that they have both in business longer and are a little more centrally located means that people will continue to flock to them and what the know than drive out of their way to go to a new facility where they are unsure what kind of service they will get for their money. Furthermore, these two businesses may have more capital at the current moment to branch out and conduct more training clinics or even purchase a bigger facility or expand their current one to compete with K3. Another threat in the area is the local economy, as a state Illinois is not doing well economically, and Belleville and the smaller surrounding towns have been hit hard the last few years. This economic downturn could mean that fewer people could afford to take their youth to get specialized baseball lessons. One final threat could be new competition. There are several baseball training facilities not too far away in downtown St. Louis that have big name MLB players backing them. If one of these facilities were to choose to spread out and move into the local area, this could have a dramatic impact on not just K3 but other local training facilities as well. With the amount of capital K3 currently has they would be able to purchase a larger facility than K3 and as successful as they have been in St. Louis they could their already