“Dr. Robert J. Bunker has been working for the last few years on assessing the potential use of body cavity bombs (BCB) or body cavity suicide bombs (BCSB) as a variation of suicide bombing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).1 Sadly or on the indications and warning (I&W) side fortunately, it seems by careful analysis of [...]

What the TSA needs now is a good makeover; hopefully Major General (retired) Robert Harding is going to be the one to bring in the new broom . TSA has languished for years under a cloud of mistakes, errors and just plain carelessness with respect to their public image and their overall effectiveness. Most recently, [...]

by John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus – The military, facing a complex and intractable mixture of “wicked problems” on the battlefield, has responded with a doctrinal revolution in the production and practice of operational theory.  But most police agencies don’t incorporate the “operational level of maneuver” into their planning and concept of operations.   We [...]

By M. Powell, Ph.D. – In the past few months, the debate over the continued need to maintain a separate Homeland Security Council  (HSC) in addition to the National Security Council (NSC), and their respective staffs, has reached a crescendo. The HSC and the NSC and their staffs are supposed to work in parallel, but [...]