Jul.25.2009
by Ed Beakley
EEI #7 – An Essay: "Non-state Actors, Terrorism & Terrorists, War Amongst the People – Still"
Essential Elements of Information for a Culture of Preparedness During the 1970s the iconic terrorist target became the international airliner. But as airline security increased in response to terrorist incidents, it became more difficult to hijack or bomb aircraft, and this difficulty resulted in a shift in targeting. By the mid-1980s, while there were still […]
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Jul.16.2009
by Ed Beakley
EEI #5 – “The Big Picture”- the Nexus between Education and Grand Strategy
Essential Elements of Information for a Culture of Preparedness Why would our societal orientation in complex, dynamic, fast moving situations be good when our educational system trains people only to think through simplified, linear, sequential problems? Strategic thinkers need to be able to see “the big picture” and handle uncertainty, or they cannot be said to be strategic thinkers. […]
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Jul.09.2009
by Ed Beakley
#4 – The Resilence Doctrine – Essential Elements of Information for a Culture of Preparedness
This current series of posts links a discussion of culture of preparedness to both the resilient community concept and to the environment in which that community must persist. For a wider perspective, the editors of Global Dashboard, Alex Evans and David Steven offer a perspective of the concept of resilience as the core of a new […]
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Jul.05.2009
by Ed Beakley
#3 – Transboundary Crisis & Local Response Issues – Essential Elements of Information for a Culture of Preparedness
By Captain Charlie Meinema Tacoma Washington Police Department Disasters may be local, but few are. Even local disasters are not local, as Yogi Berra might say. This is often because criminals, explosions, terrorists and fires fail to respect jurisdictional borders, and / or because the crisis – even if inside one geographical or […]
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Jul.05.2009
by Ed Beakley
#2 – Transboundary Crisis – Essential Elements of Information for a Culture of Preparedness
The goal of emergency and crisis response is to reduce output variability in a context in which inputs are highly variable; to that end, crisis response is, in part, about creating an orderly arena within a chaotic environment. … research on High Reliability Organizations (HROs) has suggested that some complex, hazard-managing organizations, for which failure is […]
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Jul.04.2009
by Ed Beakley
#1 Essential Elements of Information for a Culture of Preparedness
Culture: The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next. In our case groups of people who defy being victims, those who realize survival is an ongoing team process, an ongoing learning […]
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