Posted on 07/15/2016 6:24:18 AM PDT by combat_boots
There’s a scene at the beginning of The Bourne Identity where the film’s protagonist is sitting in a diner, trying to figure out who he is and why he has a bunch of passports and a gun stashed in a safety deposit box. Bourne also notices that he, well, notices things that other people don’t.
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That superhuman ability to observe his surroundings and make detailed assessments about his environment? It’s not just a trait of top secret operatives; it’s a skill known as situational awareness, and you can possess it too.
As the names implies, situational awareness is simply knowing what’s going on around you. It sounds easy in principle, but in reality requires much practice. And while it is taught to soldiers, law enforcement officers, and yes, government-trained assassins, it’s an important skill for civilians to learn as well. In a dangerous situation, being aware of a threat even seconds before everyone else can keep you and your loved ones safe.
(Excerpt) Read more at artofmanliness.com ...
Last night on CNN they interviewed a young American woman in Nice who kept saying, “I couldn’t believe there could be anything wrong...”
In the videos from last night in Nice, everyone had their noses in their phones. No one was paying any attention. It was amazing no one was accidentally hit crossing the street. How could any of them possibly think that crisis was over or the second wave wasn't immanent?
For Later
“Situational awareness is something we should be teaching our sons and daughters.”—
It is also something I should be learning myself.
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Good articles. Bikers use SIPDE == Scan Identify Predict Decide Execute.
Ping to read later.
Don’t tell anyone, but I read the thread before posting.
5.56mm
Ping for later read.
I won't tell anyone ..
but , truth known, I started following the additional links posted by others too ,as well, and found myself in OODA.
Prioritize your information is a practiced skill, sometimes too late learned !
The article mentions people who try too hard to “act natural” ie Taliban pretending to be farmers in Afghanistan.
My own situational awareness has been honed by living for years in an inner city cesspool. Those guys “playing basketball” on the corner, as well as the fellows “working on their car” in a driveway were actually dealing crack and heroin.
The drugs were stashed under the hood of the car. The b-ball players would stop playing and chat with passersby, and the money would quickly change hands.
The buyer would then drive or stroll down the block and have another brief chat with the “mechanic” who would pass the drug packet with a quick “handshake” and a “hey, man, how you been?”
The white woman sitting on her porch who was always on the phone (she really wasn’t on the phone) was a signaler, telling the dealers that buyers were coming round the corner. She was a crack ho who got paid in product.
The kids on bikes were signalers too, who watched the outer periphery of the neighborhood. They’d ride by real fast and flash a hand sign at the woman on the phone, to indicate cops were incoming.
She’d jump up and run inside. The “mechanic” would slam the hood of the car. Both he and the b-ballers would stroll off down the street.
Just mindin’ their bidness. Calm as can be.
“How could any of them think that crisis was over or the second wave wasn’t immanent?”
Excellent point. Perhaps many people subconsciously equate terrorism with natural disasters. IOW, it’s unlikely another hurricane Katrina will happen again for decades, so they apply that same reasoning to terrorism, and think it’s ok to relax. Classic normalcy bias.
Situational Awareness bookmark
Wow, that was some nice tradecraft on the part of the hood rats.
Thanks for the ping. Some interesting links on the thread.
What’s an ooda?
The OODA Loop — Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.
"The OODA Loop is an oft-cited, but typically misunderstood idea.
If you’ve heard of it, it was most likely presented in a fairly superficial way – as a 4-step decision-making process where the individual or group
who makes it through all the stages the quickest, wins.
That’s one element of the OODA Loop, but there’s much more to it than that."
OODA Loop as found with more discriptive information at:
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/09/15/ooda-loop/
Thanks, TIK.... I knew I could count on you! :-D
Boyd is one of the most prominent military theorists of the 20th Century, up there with the likes of Fuller and Guderian. His biography is well worth reading.
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
https://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed/dp/0316796883
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