On this anniversary of the four terrorist attacks on the United States, September 11, 2001, we pause and remember. We reflect on where we were at 8:46, 9:03, 9:37 and 10:07AM on that horrific morning, as the two planes crashed into the World Trade Center Towers in New York City, followed by the Pentagon in Washington, DC and a field near Stonycreek Township outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The Islamic State fight continues 13 years later in an arena of global asymmetric warfare. This includes YouTube videos, Twitter, Special Operators from USSOCOM and other "Quiet Professionals" on the Internet or in the shadows of Istanbul and Cairo, that you will never read about.
When any moral person watches the replay of the video news reporting on 9/11, emotions are evident. Telling the story to those who were not born or are too young to remember is imperative. No different than the importance of other historic events of evil during two World Wars, Vietnam or the continued wars across Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Over the past 13 years our lives have been forever impacted in the midst of conflict over religion, real estate and resources. This is nothing new from a historical perspective until you add the technology components. The Internet and mobile phone technologies have brought the reporting, intelligence and dissemination of real-time information to us in seconds or minutes. No longer days or hours.
On this 9/11 anniversary, we can only pray that our humanity endures the kinetic evil and the light speed of digital information that will continue to evolve in the decades and milliseconds ahead of us...
operational risk
The Islamic State fight continues 13 years later in an arena of global asymmetric warfare. This includes YouTube videos, Twitter, Special Operators from USSOCOM and other "Quiet Professionals" on the Internet or in the shadows of Istanbul and Cairo, that you will never read about.
When any moral person watches the replay of the video news reporting on 9/11, emotions are evident. Telling the story to those who were not born or are too young to remember is imperative. No different than the importance of other historic events of evil during two World Wars, Vietnam or the continued wars across Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Over the past 13 years our lives have been forever impacted in the midst of conflict over religion, real estate and resources. This is nothing new from a historical perspective until you add the technology components. The Internet and mobile phone technologies have brought the reporting, intelligence and dissemination of real-time information to us in seconds or minutes. No longer days or hours.
On this 9/11 anniversary, we can only pray that our humanity endures the kinetic evil and the light speed of digital information that will continue to evolve in the decades and milliseconds ahead of us...
operational risk
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