For our partners in blue

Roll Call

Useful briefs for the people who answer the call.

A place to share what I have learned about evolving threats, attack planning, and the decisions agencies may need to make before a crisis.

On the board

Operational awareness briefs

These briefs carry the added context I would share in person with law-enforcement and public-safety professionals.

01 · Threat awareness

Invisible Bomb Threat Assessment

What the threat may look like, what officers should notice, and how EOD, HAZMAT, K9, EMS, and command teams can prepare.

02 · Attacker behavior

Narcotics & Attacker Behavior

What terrorists may use, what officers may see, and how drug use can affect behavior, K9 work, tactical response, and medical care.

03 · Preparedness

Preparing for Complex Attacks

Planning for multiple attackers, secondary incidents, shifting scenes, communications pressure, and follow-on threats.

04 · Capability

Building a Local Counterterrorism Capability

Practical steps for strengthening local intelligence, relationships, training, ownership, and readiness.

05 · Exercise design

Complex Attack Tabletop Guide

Scenarios and injects designed to test decisions, expose gaps, assign fixes, and build confidence before a real attack.

06 · Vetting

Identity & Biometric Vetting Gaps

How incomplete identity records and fragmented holdings can complicate screening, investigations, and post-arrival review.

07 · Strategic warning

Al-Qaeda’s U.S. Homeland Plot Evolution

What recent plotting suggests about how Al-Qaeda is adapting, what may be changing, and what state and local agencies should watch.

Inside the exercise guide

Test the seams, not the script.

Each scenario is designed to reveal coordination problems, competing priorities, information gaps, and decision points, not to reward a predetermined answer.

  1. 01Vehicle explosion followed by armed assault
  2. 02Distributed armed attacks across multiple locations
  3. 03Primary attack with a follow-on at a second site
  4. 04Critical-infrastructure incident with communications disruption
  5. 05Major event, suspicious person, and concurrent diversion
  6. 06Layered attack against a secured complex

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For our partners in blue: stay curious, stay connected, and prepare before the call comes.

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