Good morning viewers of the security community.
I
have envisaged a plan for the creation of an Indications & Warning
System on the web.
What I seek is the rich exchange intelligence in the fields of
terrorism , insurgency and asymmetrical warfare in general--between
practicing professionals and of both the Private and Government
security sectors.There will be a common platform on the web where
everyone will express their views , their perspectives on the prevalent
TTPs as per doctrine as well as current developments outside the
existing doctrines.I want a global Indications & Warning setup
based on the web portal--the I&W inputs coming from the members--
that is to say each and every member will reflect on the current
prevailing situations in his own way , keep a tab on the ''changes'' in
these situations if any , and make both an educated guess as well as
analytical judgement of the ''changes'' induced situation , go
backwards from the changes to discern the indicators and then finally
zero in on the ''warning'' element which he will then apprise the
portal authority.His ''warning'' element will then be placed
parallel(not conflictingly) with other warning elements submitted by
other members and relating to say one part of the globe under unrest ,
and the optimum decision taken after carefully evaluating all the
''warning'' elements against the critical backdrop of the knowledge ,
skills and abilities(KSAs) of the contributing members and hence
assigning due weight-age to their assessments.Thus a general Warning of
calculated severity can be issued by the Portal.
The rich exchange of intelligence and information will foster further
research and attract more talents.There can be a services and products
sub-portals where we can critically examine and recommend , say CBRNE
and other security services/products.
We must,absolutely must focus on the importance of HUMINT/CI.
There will be physical addresses attached to the Portal--in USA ,
Greece and India.Thus this lends it a multinational collaboration
flavor.all 4 lending their credibility , fame..the personalities..the
sevices..pooling..alliance.
I invite papers from all of you which will be reviewed by the ATAB
Committees and the ideas/principles/TTPs published here and in other
sites of ATAB.
-- Keshav Mazumdar
CPO CRC CMAS ASC ATO
Antiterrorism Officer CI/Humint Instructor