What Happened? When?

Kia Ora,

Yet again NZ shows its propensity to collectively forget issues within a week. A week ago it was all the terrorist stunts, but by Tuesday you weren't hearing a thing.

Just to clarify the end of my last blog, as far as I know I didn't kill anyone in Iraq, but it was the mindset you had to be prepared for. Everytime you fired a warning shot you knew it could kill.

The point was you need the right mindset to pull the trigger & no one actually knows if they can do it when the time comes. Personally I would of fired over a hundred warning rounds into & at vehicles.

People will say that is easy. Is it? On one team we had a 'special forces' person who looked the part, knew martial arts, had all the best gear, but when it came time to fire a warning shot where the vehicle was seen approaching from about 2 km away at an estimated speed of 200 Kmh (quite common in Iraq) he failed. It was left to this plain infantryman three vehicles in front to fire.

Other news has being a NZ intelligience gathering group are to now focus inwardly as well in the lead up to the Rugby World cup.

The problem with electronic intelligience gathering is it only an aid for the humint & gut feeling of those on the street. Over realiance on it & you end up like the Americans with egg on their faces more often than not. They didn't listen to their soldiers on the street often enough.

Again though we see nothing has being learnt.

As I am typing this I am listening to the test cricket in Wellington & with the Aussie concerns over security in particular heightened after the revelation of the terrorist stunt & Michael Clarke's personal issues, a streaker has just run right across the field of play, side stepped a security guard, outrun all the rest & gone.

Now a streaker is not a terrorist attack, but there are basic strategies to combat this sort of activity that most security not only don't practice, they don't know.

True it also often comes to the client dictating the numbers because politicians are too weak to put in place formula's for minimum numbers of security required at events or even on task's.

As one ex army comrade said "now they have said they will not change the security requirements before the Rugby World Cup, then there is almost surely going to be an attack prior", & she was in the Dental Corp.  But she understands security. Too bad more don't.