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posted by mrpg on Thursday March 15 2018, @01:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the like-the-flu dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Thursday March 15 2018, @03:19AM (3 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday March 15 2018, @03:19AM (#652762)

    Why wouldn't the lawyer use direct exculpatory evidence? Unless you are implying you know the guy's lawyer is compromised?

    Man, who hurt you so bad that you're this fucked up?

    The only bad thing about a communist dying is it was only one communist died and not the whole lot of em. Fields is a fudged up cracker (an opinion held even by most of the neo-nazi types who were trying to hold a peaceful protest that day) but I'll still worry about humans over animals any day of the week. Ya can often straighten out a fudged up kid, hell sometimes they fix themselves once they get out into the world and have to make a living. Communists usually get worse over time, rarely better. Ok David Horowitz and Whittaker Chambers were commies who repented, but a rare exception only proves the general rule that every dead commie makes the world a little bit better on net. So I'll turn the question back at you, why don't you want to make the world a better place? What is wrong with you?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @05:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @05:29AM (#652785)

    jmorris,

    The only bad thing about a communist dying is it was only one communist died and not the whole lot of em

    You are misquoting Franz Fanon. Stop it, it just makes you look stupid.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Thursday March 15 2018, @01:12PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday March 15 2018, @01:12PM (#652921) Journal

    Wait!? Honest question (I think my autism is kicking in again)

    Are you saying that you worry about humans over animals, but that you support neo-nazis and communists should die?
    Or do you not support neo-nazis? Or are you considering communists animals?

    Damn, I'm having trouble with this whole thread I guess.

    Stupid autism.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 15 2018, @06:06PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday March 15 2018, @06:06PM (#653029) Journal

    Why wouldn't the lawyer use direct exculpatory evidence?

    Because it doesn't exist.