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How can we understand the process by which an attack type popularized in the West Bank became the tactic of choice for a white supremacist in the United States? The best way to do so—and to predict the spread of new tactics—may come from an unconventional source: epidemiology, the science of the spread of disease.
[...] Just as in epidemiology, where an outbreak in one area triggers concern in neighboring regions, so too should an outbreak in one operational area serve as a warning to other, geographically related areas. Thus, at this point the outbreak in Israel should have indicated the likelihood that the tactic would spread, at least elsewhere in the region. Here an understanding of vectors is key. A fairly broad definition of a vector is that it is a carrier that transmits a given infectious agent between organisms.
[...] Employing an epidemiological perspective will give security forces and operational planners more time to prepare for the arrival of the tactic and may ultimately save lives. Understanding when the prevalence of a tactic has reached outbreak levels can provide a warning to other operational environments. Monitoring vectors can provide warning of how and where a tactic may spread and whether it is likely that the tactic will reach pandemic or hyperendemic proportions. Even if epidemiological language is not employed, there is still value in an epidemiological approach to describing the prevalence and media coverage of tactics in operating environments.
VEHICLE RAMMING, FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO CHARLOTTESVILLE: HOW DO TACTICS SPREAD?
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @02:07AM (1 child)
"You'd think a military article would get that."
The "article" was obviously bullshit and it was written by a guy who obviously has an agenda which does not involve anything which resembles the truth.
Anyone who has the ability to reason can smell the bullshit from that "article" a mile away. The dipshit who wrote the "article" is trying to connect things which
are not remotely related, and drowning the reader in jargon in an attempt to sound like he knows something. It's the sort of thing I'd rip up and toss in the trash can
if it was submitted to me by a college student. Don't fucking try to LIE to me and insult me by assuming I cannot tell when you're lying.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @02:35AM
It is more than that.
Viruses win if they change.
We win if we do. However humans want to be individuals and viruses don’t seemingly care. But if I stand on my lawn shouting get off my lawn to all those whose lawn is becoming (my daughters lawn) theirs, haven’t I not adapted?
Fast this is becoming her world. And fast I turn into a memory.
But with pain so great, I can’t help but wonder if I am wrong to support the second amendment to the level I do.
So when my daughter asked if she could join a walkout I said yes. Fast it becoming her world. And if she is wrong those who follow free thought will find it and our grandchildren will return us to the days I remember. Jumping out of the pickup truck and shooting a few quail on the way home.
This life we live and lose isn’t ever tied to any individual.