Comments on: Mumbai terrorist attacks-C4I

By: Bingo games in the UK

Bingo games in the UK — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:49:41 +0000

Last week’s terrorist attack on Mumbai was unsettling partially exposed the vulnerability of one of the worlds largest growing cities.
Could the violent acts could actually strengthen counter-terrorism strategies the US? The Takeaway explores this with Paul
Cruickshank. Cruickshank says that it may be more difficult to pull off this type of attack in the United States because we are
protected by geography and demography.On 26th Dec we lose 100 people who pays for these lives.

By: Spyguy

Spyguy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:23:49 +0000

They have not struck the U.S. no have they? We continue to capture and kill terrrorists all over the world. Finally NO ONE CAN PREDICT WHAT IS IN THE MINDS OF EVIL MEN!

By: Byron Skinner

Byron Skinner — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:12:18 +0000

Good Evening Spy Guy,
If the U.S. is so far ahead of the terrorists how come they are winning. Al Qaeda can has struck at will any place at the time of its choice. The U.S. by its own admission has said that is unable to predict any al Qaeda actions either time or place.
American Intelligence is to fractured and bureaucratically fractured to deal with the open ended, nimble and flexible operational organization that al Qaeda has built. To many self interest in the CIA and DoD cripple U.S. efforts.
Although I think the recent prediction of an al Qaeda CBR attack some place in the world by 2013 is over the top, there almost certainly will be more conventional terrorists attacks before that date.
The U.S. will only be able to react to what has taken place. The only saving grace here is that al Qaeda lacks the where with all in several critical are to carry out a CBR attack that would be more or as even as effective as what they did on 9/11 and now in Mumbai. There will be bodies and property damage but nothing that can’t be cleaned up.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner

By: SpyGuy

SpyGuy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:57:50 +0000

Well some good poins and some spy want-a-bes. RIP? Give me a freeking break. The US intel community is so far ahead of what you are talking about it is not funny.
India does need to update their response and intel capabilities big time!

By: stephen russell

stephen russell — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:50:39 +0000

Time to update Indian Armed forces with latest systems & drones, Apaches or Hueycobras & estd SEAL force in US Emb?
Concealed carry time
& super encrypt data?
Or face Mumbai 2 someplace in the world?

By: Camp

Camp — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:18:27 +0000

While I appreciate the concepts the article is attempting to achieve. I think it’s pushing things a tad too far, to claim these tangos had a real C4I structure & “information superiority”.
In regards to law enforcement. Cell phone jammers (area jamming) will more than likely play an increasing role in future events, but probably not just on the side of the police. A solid real-time intel asset that law enforcement has, are it’s citizens with cell-phones. And cutting off possible sources of info, as well as the bad guy doesn’t make much sense. And not to mention, that police officers often rely upon their own cell phones for work, because the department issued equipment can simply suck.
A real challenge for police & counter-terrorism units, will be to find a way of quickly localizing, identifying, & taking control of a tangos specific comms link. It’s plausible, to create a program that would automatically correlate time, events, and signals in order to identify & track suspected devices in an area. Although, pushing actionable information forward to the appropriate line units (without creating information overload) will still be a battle within itself. But if one were able to do so, the “bad guys” “technological advantage” could quickly become their “Achilles heal”.
C2I, C3I, C4I, C4ISR, C4ISTAR, RIP, BGP, BFG, WTF… does the world really need more abbreviations?
Anyone remember the name of this little program? 8O)
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