tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5097863718427132473.post8970058517823246323..comments2023-10-08T09:11:08.930+01:00Comments on Sharp Edge of the Sphere: Training and Conduct Under Stresstigger23505http://www.blogger.com/profile/11638496374998196301noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5097863718427132473.post-82389623875259227132008-12-02T19:49:00.000+00:002008-12-02T19:49:00.000+00:00re. 'going out on a limb'... welcome to blogging!!...re. 'going out on a limb'... welcome to blogging!! :)<BR/><BR/>Re. Mumbai police:<BR/><BR/>1) it's nearly impossible, knowing what we know now, to re-create the conditions of uncertainty faced by individual policeman on the ground. <BR/><BR/>2) I suspect that, like on 9-11 when fire and police radios interfered with each other when used at scale, that the Indian cops' lack of sophisticated networking (<I>a la</I>, for example, the mass murdering islamists with their Blackberries) was part of the problem, and with it, any broad situational awareness. (E.g., <I>"I see what I see in front of me, but I can't appreciate the magnitude of the action and that restricts me to old modes of dealing with it that are more appropriate to isolated crimes than to what amounts to a battle in a war"</I>)<BR/><BR/>3) One cannot, by definition, train for the 'unimaginable' and, for the most part, large institutions (such as police forces) do not invest time or energy in going beyond the bounds of their history-colored, safe, slow-moving, blinkered versions of what is 'imaginable'.<BR/><BR/>4) We would not want, as you note, to have individuals with guns becoming overly imaginative in the moment lest dis-information by the bad guys evoke a response that took advantage of just that fact.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com