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SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ///
Task Fixation in Public Spaces
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Pre-targeted or not, the act of aggression is usually prompted by an opening – an opportunity that’s often created by the subject‘s fixation on a task.
Projecting Situational Awareness as Passive Self-Defense
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A natural or subtly theatrical show of your situational awareness can act as an incidental preventative form of passive self-defense.
Situational Awareness as a Traveler
Operators in foreign lands can enhance their efficiency, mobility and safety just by expanding and heightening their existing awareness levels.
Resistance to Change is Resistance to Survival
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The world around us is ever-changing, along with it our situational and operational dynamics. These changes must be acknowledged and engaged.
Crowd Scanning Targeting Tactics
Techniques to observe, identify and initiate tracking or verify a specific person(s) within a large or moving crowd of people, in the field as a lone operative.
Diversionary Task Fixation Technique
A passive control and observation technique for subject interaction using task fixation theatrics as a misdirecting focus measure.
Active Entry Procedural Exit Strategizing
AEPES is an advanced technique of relative-linear exit strategizing while in defined structures with an active entry mission mindset.
Combat Awareness: Imminent Action Positioning Tells
IAPT is a part of a close quarters combat recognition strategy for adaptive responses for the purpose of counter maneuvering.
