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30 May 2009: Fear Management Part 7 | A summary

We have learned Fear Management is a three-prong approach - pre-fear, during-fear and post fear, and each phase needs work and preparation. Fear affects everyone differently at different times. Healthy lifestyle, fitness, diet, proper rest, education on violence, tactical breathing, drilling and realistic, crisis rehearsal are universally accepted steps to manage your fear of conflict, attacks and fighting.

There's a poor, scared Amy Gdala in all of us. We need to calm Amy down as much as possible!

1 - Health and fitness

2 - Tactical breathing program (also pre, during and post)

3 - Learning the who, what, when, where , how and why of your enemy

4 - Driilling responses into muscle memory/crisis rehersal

 

 

 

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26 May 2009: Fear Management Part 6 | How and Why We Fear

Why do we Fear? It is not my intent here to file a dissertation on the human brain. We can however cover this information concisely. The amygdala is an almond-shaped structure in the brain; its name comes from the Greek word for “almond.” As with most other brain structures, you actually have two amygdalae. It modulates all of our reactions to events that warn us of imminent danger are therefore very important stimuli for the Amygdala, as are events that signal the presence of food, sexual partners, rivals, children in distress, and so on. The Amygdale is very busy.

The Amygdala and its operation is fairly well known, but amazingly enough, it took extensive, recent research and surgery on damaged Amygdalas to really understand how healthy ones operate. This brain work done since the turn of this new century sheds new light on issues of fear, instinct, fearful memories, fear conditioning and a host of other related topics. A lot of what martial trainers thought and were taught from the 1980s through the 1990's is inaccurate and misleading. And this misinformation is it still being taught in some circles.

“All animals have an innate (inborn) ability to fear, and for good reason--survival. Fear of being eaten motivates animals to evade predators. "A system in the brain learns which things are dangerous and we avoid them," says Dr. Gregory Quirk of the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. “If a snarling dog bit you, for example, you may be afraid of that dog--or all dogs--later on.”

Neuroscientist, oft-quoted, author Dr. Joseph LeDoux of New York University pointed out that having a very rapid, if imprecise, method of detecting danger is of high survival value. "You're better off mistaking a stick for a snake than a snake for a stick," he said.

It seems that some fears are instinctive and most are learned. Specialists say there are two pathways to fear response. The short path, or low road, sees the stick and jumps as if it was a snake. The long path, or high road, realizes the stick is a stick (keep in mind that the word “long” may be misleading as the response may take only a few milliseconds. There are 1,000 milliseconds in a second).

The short path is an instantaneous electric-like jolt inside your body, which may or may not affect body movement. This “short path” has been used in misleading, sales-pitch, fashion in martial training suggesting that all attacks are all startling jolts will naturally produce a specific fighting stance. Research shows over 30 different startles to surprises, most of the positions are not fighting postures.

Many uneducated martial instructors automatically combine the terms startle and flinch as if they were one connected definition thus adding to the sale-pitch confusion. Webster defines flinch – to withdraw or shrink from as if from pain, to tense the muscles involuntarily in anticipation of discomfort.And to be specific about “dropping into a fighting stance, the human body will often, not always, respond to incoming objects with their limbs, in that very direction. For a classic example, if a fly flies at your eye, you swat at the fly, you do not drop into a fighting stance and then swat the fly. Your hands may go up versus any incoming person or object. A hand swat is not a boxing ring or karate fighting stance.

The long or high road takes a milliseconds pass through the sensory cortex is the part of the brain which processes information from the eyes, nose, ears, and skin. Many people skip the short path in most instances through learned behavior or physiologic reasons.

Physiological reasons? “Why are some people more fearful than others? They may possess a weaker connection between the two brain areas that control fear,” Quirk speculates. Another possibility? Fearful people possess unique DNA that may render them more likely to learn fear. Columbia University scientist Eric Kandel discovered a gene called GRP that prevents the amygdala from learning fear. Mice without the GRP gene were much more afraid of an electric shock than normal mice. "There may be genetic predispositions to be fearful and to learn fear," says Kandel.

And that might exist on a sliding scale in differing people, their brains and their experiences. This may explain why veterans of combat may have quicker and proper response times to sudden attacks. Good training can support or replace these genetic predispositions.

How will I project fear? Fear management also means to projection of fear upon the enemy. It's the Scottish military bagpipes droning across the coming battlefield. Carrying a bagpipe was considered to be as much a crime as carrying arms during the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. The Bagpipe was classified an "instrument of war." It's the fear in Argentineans during the 1980s hearing that Ghurkas were coming into the Falklands War with their beheading kukris. The ROK Marines of South Korea were feared by north vietnamese.

On a personal level your command presence might project fear upon an enemy or a criminal. Your face. Your hair. Your clothing. Your psychical appearance. Your facial expression. The tone and tenor of your voice. Your anger. Your calm.

 

Coming soon Fear Management continues with a summary

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20 May 2009: Fear Management Part 5 | The When Questions of Ambush

Ambush! The worst case scenario. Many people fear ambushes and rightly so. It catches them off-guard to some level. Since the word ambush is intrinsically about surprise and therefore essentially about time and timing, I will expound a bit more about the subject while still here in this “when” category. Plus, it gives me an opportunity to remind everyone how versatile and deep the “who, what, where, when how and why” questions can run in your research. They run deep. They can define and manage big categories into small, sub-categories of research and knowledge. The small questions of the big and small questions. Briefly:

Who ambushes? Criminals and enemy soldiers

What is an ambush? A surprise attack

Where? Usually when you least expect it, but at times you can expect it

When? Usually when you least expect it, but at times you can expect it

How? Using deception, concealment, tricks, ploys, lures, traps and quickness

Why? The element of surprise has been the single most successful tactic in crime and war

 

Think of a war situation. Or, think of a common crimes involving the elements of ambush. Car hijacking. Mugging, or abduction, for some examples. Think about your geography. There are unique elements to each situation. Become even more specific:

“On my drive to work today, precisely how can I be hijacked? Who will specifically do it? What specifically will they do? Where specifically will it happen? When specifically will it happen? How specifically will they do it? Why will they do this?”

Not all crimes and battles are ambushes. Not all involve startles and flinches. Also, you are only startled for so long. The military invented the immediate action drills to launch people mindlessly into a quick response. But, many civilian, self defense trainers spend a lot of shallow time on this important subject of ambush. They underplay intelligent preparation. They simply declare "be alert!" Okay, but most people need to know more. Alert to what who, what, when, where, how and why?

Fortune favors the prepared and a large percentage of this time should be spent dissecting the possible ambush events, because being ambushed is a worst-case situation. Ask any military leader since the dawn of military history to the today's roadside bomber. Dig deep with both a shovel and spoon on each attack you fear with the “who, what, where, when, how and why' questions. I tell you that if you are not asking all those questions, you will miss something.

 

Coming soon Fear Management continues with the "how" question

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17 May 2009: Fear Management Part 4 | The When Questions
When are you afraid? This is a time question. Keep the word time in mind when dissecting this problem-area, else you will be waylaid into other issues and questions and miss the proper study topic. The "when" questions sweeps across many related phobias and fears. Many people have a personal list of times they fear. Most of the phobias may be normal, such as visiting dysfunctional families at the holidays, but we concern ourselves with fear, confrontation and violence here, and we cannot discount the increase of family violence during the holidays.

When its dark, in generall?
"In November, shortening days give criminals more darkness to hide in, and cold weather makes it easier for criminals to conceal their identities with coats and hoods," said Sgt. G.F. Stephens, who leads the Greensboro, North Carolina Police Department's robbery squad.

When it's the holidays?
"We usually see an increase in robberies during the holiday months," said Rita Davis, Fort Collins, Colorado Police Services spokeswoman. This is true of most areas of the world. Various stresses and pressures cause a need for more money with a penchant for some extra violence. But dysfunctional families do often turn violence over the holidays. “There is more stress during the holidays over money, and people consume more alcohol at parties,” said Rena Pina, who works with the District of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic Violence. “It’s a combination of a lot of things.”

When is violence seasonal - weather and crime? War and crime?
Time magazine reported on the relationship between weather and crime, made by Dr. Edwin Grant Dexter, to the National Probation Society. Dr. Dexter analyzed the 12-year police and weather statistics of New York and Denver. His conclusions were that, “in the summer people are outdoors, have free opportunity to quarrel; commit acts of violence. In winter living becomes difficult; people steal and commit other acts against property.”
“Turn up the heat and humidity, add idle, out-of-school teens and a sprinkling of tourists, and you have the perfect recipe for a long, hot summer of crime,” warns Jerry McKean, professor of criminal justice, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. “Crime statistics rise in July and August, when the temperatures begin to bake a majority of the country.”

“The connection between weather and crime is too much of a generality,” warns Evanston, Ohio Police Deputy Chief Joseph Bellino. "If there are more people out and about, perhaps there's a greater opportunity for some crimes to occur," Bellino said. "But the converse is true. With more people out, the opportunity to commit a crime can be averted because more people are out and available to call if they see a crime being committed.” Street crimes, such as assaults and batteries, tend to increase in the summer months. Burglaries of houses and apartments may also increase because many people leave their screen doors open when the weather is warmer,” he said. “As people are away from their homes more, they should make sure to secure their doors and lock up their belongings.”

For others time of the season is more clear-cut. Ellen Cohn, a criminology professor at Florida International University who specializes in the effects of weather on crime, said that, as the weather gets warmer, people spend less time doing routine activities - habitual tasks like work and classes - during which one is unlikely to be the victim of a violent crime. Alcohol consumption is also more frequent, often leading to higher crime rates. All of these changes in behavior generally lead to more crimes between persons. In general, violent crime seems to be more affected by temperature than property crimes. Experts also say there are simply more opportunities for crime to happen in the spring as people try to enjoy the warm weather.”

For centuries now, military historians know that in parts of Afghanistan, war fighting slows down each winter. In war, as with crime, human nature does not like being out in extreme weather or the dead of night. Some native tribes in the USA, Central Asia and Africa have been known not to attack or fight at night. These facts can be advantageous knowledge for missions and surprise attacks. Bad weather war and crime still goes on of course...just more reluctantly. After all, the generals are ensconced in climate control, command centers.

Police officers understand that they are in varying levels of danger when being at work in the field. Domestic disturbances and traffic stops are two, high-risk events and elevated awareness is needed when spotting or being sent to these and other known dangerous situations.

When should you fight a mugger or robber?
Most experts agree that you should surrender your wallet or car keys to an armed attacker. That is your personal choice, but this is the common, suggested advice. The point at which a criminal demands a victim go with him somewhere else, virtually a kidnapping, is the point in which a victim should physically resist and fight. Police and profilers call it, “being taken from Crime Scene “A” - the original confrontation, to Crime Scene “B” - where rape and murder in a controlled environment begins. How you do this is another subject.

 

The When/Fear Summary

* When am I afraid?

* When will I be attacked? Its situational, based on your lifestyle, travel and job. Study actual statistics as a real predictor as to when real criminals and enemy soldiers attack. Knowing this alone decreases fear and directs you to proper responses.

* Study steps to counter these timing attacks. Doing this, having awareness and a plan helps decrease fear.

* Get good intelligence and research from enlightened, trusted, informed sources.

* Get good training from enlightened, trusted, informed specialists.


 

Coming soon Fear Management continues with more "when " questions

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12 May 2009: Fear Management | Part 3 - The Where Questions?

Where are you afraid? This is a geographic question. Keep the word geography in mind when dissecting this problem-area, else you will be waylaid into other issues and questions and miss the proper study topic. The "where" questions sweeps across many related phobias and fears. Many people have a personal list of places they fear. The places and causes for this are usually quite generic. Dark places, like basements, parking lots, hallways, etc. Creepy places. One of the fears inside the generic, dark, scary place does include being jumped by a villain once inside, but all “creepy-place” fears in general do not always relate to realistic crime, war and violence. Evaluate and limit your concerns to the statistical places that prove you should be worried. Once identified, create strategies form experts on how to handle problems in those places. Shine a bright light on these dark places and pits.

Most people avoid trouble by simply avoiding obviously, dangerous places. The very best advice. But, citizens often find themselves accidentally in the wrong place at the wrong time, or must take the ocsassional excursion into bad geography. The police, security and the military however, make their living going into dangerous geography.

As citizens, we warn our children to avoid strangers and not fall for stalling and luring tricks. “Help me find my cat,” will trick little kids, but there are plenty of questions and scams that trick, stall, stop and lead adults. Avoid strangers and their stalling stories and tricks. Avoid being encircled. Embed some quick response words or phrases that limit further interactive, conversation. Some safety-conscious people just simply say - “no,” to every, luring question. Keep a neutral face because your friendly smile is a often an invitation to a con man or criminal to further engage with you. Be loosely aware of the time of day to deal with that common stalling and distracting question. This way you don’t have to look directly at your watch when asked the time. Say, “just after 4.” “Almost 6.” Or, “don’t know,” as examples. As you leave, use shadows, glass and reflections of surfaces around you, plus a “backwards-checking-eye” to continue on safely without further problems.

Where will you be ambushed? Where will he be or stand? Where will you be? These are tactical questions that are answered in customized, tactical training programs. Proceeding through apparently safe places and dangerous places have unique, situational strategies, but some general rules do apply. Don't pass too closely by places of concealment and hiding spots. This could be a cluster of bushes on a street. Cars in a parking lot, a line of thick trees by a domestic disturbance call, or odd-looking objects that might be IEDs on a Baghdad roadway. Situational to you, what you do and where you go. Use your eyes, nose and ears and learned intelligence to detect attackers along the way.

The ambushed brain must struggle to think of a solution. An ambush is typically when aggressors use concealment or tricks to interrupt and attack a passing citizen, cop or soldier. Ambushers strike from concealed intentions, lures, seductions, or physical positions. You are at your weakest when ambushed. The supreme element of surprise. Ambushes have been used consistently throughout history, from ancient to modern crime and warfare. To ambush is to scare, or injure, or kill and/or steal from, or destroy people and property. Ambushes have defeated the greatest armies of the world and can catch you unprepared and shocked. Even during a fight or battle, a small distraction, fake or feint is a lot like a "mini-ambush" of the brain, a stall in proper counter-action.

Take that stalling thought out of the sudden, confrontational instant and replace it with reflexive, drilled responses of words and deeds. Understanding this shines that bright light on a scary place and helps manage fear of places.

The Where/Fear Summary

* Where am I afraid to go?

* Where will I be attacked? Where will he attack from? Its situational, based on your lifestyle, travel and job. Study actual statistics as a real predictor as to where real criminals and enemy soldiers attack. Knowing this alone decreases fear and directs you to proper responses.

* Study steps to counter these identified geographic attacks. Doing this, having awareness and a plan helps decrease fear.

* Get good intelligence and research from enlightened, trusted, informed sources.

* Get good training from enlightened, trusted, informed specialists.


Coming soon Fear Management continues with the "when" question

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4 May 2009: Fear Management | Part 2 - The What Questions?

This is about "what is" and "what happens" questions. Keep the terms "what is" and "what happens" in mind when dissecting this problem-area, else you will be waylaid into other issues and questions and miss the proper study.

What is Fear? Experts say that fear is an emotional response to threats and danger. It is a basic survival mechanism. It is safe to say that almost all humans have experience fear in some level. Experts tell us that fear is being afraid or feeling anxious or apprehensive or scared. Being frightened is an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger. Being uneasy or apprehensive about something. Being concerned or perhaps, over-concerned. It as an anxious feeling on up to a debilitating feeling.

"There is much correlation between the emotional states of fear. Anxiety, distress, and fear are closely related negative emotional states associated with physical or psychological harm. These three emotions can be differentiated by the temporal relationship between the feeling and the potential threat. Anxiety is characterized by the anticipation of being harmed in the future, where as fear is characterized as the anticipation of being harmed in the present. Distress is characterized by the awareness of being harmed at this particular moment. The three emotions can diffuse into one single diffuse state." - Dr Doug Holt

What do you fear will happen? What do you exactly, precisely fear the criminal or enemy soldier will do to you? What exactly will he do? To your family, friends, comrades and country? Will the criminal bully you? Embarrass you? Injure you? Rape you? Maim you? Kill you? Kidnap and torture you? Exploring each category allows investigation, discussion and problem-solving. What are statistics and odds that this will actually happen to you? There are myriads of solutions for the myriads of what situations. Too many to list here in this generic study. Begin with high percentage realities and start working on problem solving from there.

What will happen? What will you do? People often fear -"what will I do or not do under pressure?" Are you afraid of what you will or won't do in a moment of conflict? Many people are afraid that they will not act before or during combat, concerned that they will make the wrong responses, fail, or possibly even freeze. One major solution for this uncertainty is common repetition training that develops somewhat “mindless,” or “mind-free” or better - “decision-free” reflexive, responses to violence. This training may often take the sting out of sudden ambush, or take the “mind-game” out of responses. Drill, drill, drill – which is the secret of success of any football team, any SWAT team, any infantry unit, any good street crime prevention program, and any good, self defense course. There is also a fear-defeating confidence and inner strength in believing in this regimen of repetition training. I have learned that if you relieve the self-doubting student of the worry of decision-making and bolster them with mind-free reactions with repetition training, they have less fear and more confidence.

What will happen if he uses weapons? What weapons, if any, will the criminal or enemy have? What will you have? Many people fear being punched or hit, shot and stabbed. All good healthy fears to some extent, unless they are dibiltating. A common method to couner these fears is to slowly expose people to the realities of them. And another way is to work on pain management - which is in another subject and essay. BUt knowing what will actually happen and making plans for it, helps manage fear.

The What/Fear Summary

* What is fear? An emotional, biological response to pending or sudden personal or physical attack.

* What will he do? Study actual statistics as a real predictor of what steps real criminals and enemy soldiers take in attacks. Knowing this decreases fear.

* What will I do? Study steps to counter these attacks. Doing this, having awareness and a plan helps decrease fear.

* Get good intelligence and research from enlightened, trusted, informed sources.

* Get good training from enlightened, trusted, informed specialists.

 

 

Coming soon Fear Management continues with the "where" question

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1 May 2009: Fear Management | Part 1

Fear management is one of three “managements” that are primary, training foundations on dealing with violence, self-defense, fighting crime and military combat. The big three managements are: fear management, pain management and anger management. We start here with fear management.

Fear may exist before a fight/combat, during a fight/combat, and even after a fight/combat. Depending upon your life style, job and/or mission, this is a very broad spectrum of subjects, presumably immeasurable and unmanageable for many people at first. Worse, this broad, generic fear breeds even more fear, like the infamous fear of the unknown problem. But I offer you here a surgeon's scalpel to dissect fear, compartmentalize it and attempt to manage it. While this proven methodology works with all fears and phobias, we will concern ourselves here only with violence, fighting, and crime and combat.

Fear is a continuum, but it often jumps slots and doesn't slide across the board like a slow-burning, predictable up-and-down chart. The military model on this subject is quite telling. Not all are dumbfounded and wetting their pants as killologists suggest, and not all are courageous. Modern military commanders realize that in combat, segments of their troops may become frozen, or fearful, cry, become numb, robotic, and then some become excited and stimulated. A perfect unit is full of excited, stimulated soldiers. This perfect, excited and stimulated soldier has a mix of genetics and training on his or her side. There are selection processes to identify this soldier and place him at the tip of the spear.

The training challenge is to take these other categories and shape them into this more successful end of the continuum. Managing fear is one such way. But there will be some people that are genetically pre-disposed to fail in these situations and correcting them is a significant challenge. These people must be identified and removed from front-line jobs. But, that sort of personnel move works only in military, security and police work. What of the citizen, whose so-called “front-line” is the daily passage of common life?

In order to overcome fears, individuals and groups must first come to terms with their own specific fears and understand just how distracting and destructive they can be to survival and winning. To wrestle and dissect fear into manageable segments, I always try to answer the classic and multi-layered, inter-connected, formula of, “who, what, where, when, how and why” questions as a road map. When you map out the terrain, you shed light on the landscape.

The simple so-called “gut instinct,” this so-called natural, gut-“Gift of Fear” is actually a very complicated process of decisive, patternicity recognition that we now know the human brain calculates at ram speed, based on what brain's collective knowledge. Patternicity is often defined as the ability to recognize patterns and is regarded by many experts as a hallmark of “intelligence.”

 

“In my book - How We Believe - I argue that our brains are belief engines: evolved

pattern recognition machines that connect the dots and create meaning out of the

patterns that we think we see in nature. Sometimes A really is connected to B; sometimes

it is not. When it is, we have learned something valuable about the environment from

which we can make predictions that aid in survival and reproduction. We are the descendants of those most successful at finding patterns. This process is called association learning and it is fundamental to all animal behavior, from the humble worm.” – Dr Michael Shermer

 

But why do "Aha!" moments sometimes come easily and sometimes not at all? A new study reveals that patterns of brain activity before people even see a problem predict whether they will solve it with or without such an insight, and these brain activity patterns are likely linked to distinct types of mental preparation. Previous research by this team demonstrated that the brain functions differently when a person arrives at "Aha!" (or so-called "gut") solutions, compared to methodical solutions. The current study reveals that the distinct patterns of brain activity leading to "Aha!" moments of insight begin much earlier than the time a problem is solved. The research suggests that people can mentally prepare to have an "Aha!" solution even before a problem is presented. These findings are important because they show that people can mentally prepare to solve problems with different thinking styles and that these different forms of preparation can be identified with specific patterns of brain activity.

- John Kounios of Drexel University, Mark Jung-Beeman of Northwestern University

 

Decision-making left to sheer chance, acid reflux and and some intestinal bowels in the gut? Not always. Maybenot so often at all. So, let us now endeavor to build that patternicity and collective knowledge with the who, what, where, when, how and why questions. We begin with “who.”

 

The Who Question: Who are you afraid of?

Basic Response: The “who” that you fear is a very personal. In the biggest picture, we the people fight criminals and enemy soldiers. Need we make a separate identification for terrorist? If you wish, but for brevity here I will put terrorists inside the enemy soldiers category. We need not further define enemy soldiers. If a spouse slaps you? By definition that spouse becomes a criminal. Should a friend or a cousin get drunk and punch you in a party? He, by definition became a criminal at that point.

Try to determine precisely whom it is you fear. Once you identify whom you are afraid of, you can take intelligent steps to further identify who they really are and their exact methods. To do this, you must interlock the “who, what, where, when, how and why” questions onto the specific criminal or soldier you fear. Suddenly these questions and answers are no longer about generic fear itself, but about people, methods, times and locations and you are already working to counter, “fear” with realistic actions. Then learn to counter these very methods of these people. Fear takes a back seat to strategy as strategy builds confidence and lessons fear.

Perceived enemies? Experts say that perception is reality for many people, but perceptions can be educated. Willpeople become fearful of unlikely criminals and attackers? It seems in modern times, aided by fast news reporting, any crime or terrorism event is on the kitchen table to worry about. But a good study of actuaries, statistics and probability factors will shed light on these likelyhoods.

Basic Response: Remember the duality of each who, what, where, when, how and why question. Therefore, we must also ask “who are you?” You! Who you are also tells you who your probable enemies are? This depends completely on your life-style. Predictably, commonly, a citizen, police or security may fear criminals in general. Next, they may fear specific criminals, like a rapist over a burglar, or a crazed druggie over a shoplifter, or a psychopath. A soldier fears the general enemy and the full spectrum of his tools. Security officers fear the general “invader.” Bodyguards fear the attacker.

And, who you are is also a general predictor of your potential? Not only must you try to control your own fear, but also the projection of fear upon your enemies. Your mere presence who you are, how you walk, dress, speak and your reputation on a small scale or in a grand scale has a projected effect on your enemies.

Advanced Responses: Start asking the next level of “who” questions. Who do I call for help? Who backs me up? Who might be around to help either help or help the enemy for that matter? Remember that studies show 40% of the time we fight two or more people? And 40" of those people are armed with weapons in some manner. These other people engage in the fight at various levels of interest and involvement. Proper training and planning can help with all these problems.

 

The Who/Fear Summary

* Who are you? Your fears?

* Who exactly are the enemies you fear? Criminals and enemy soldiers.

* Study actual statistics as a real predictor of real criminals and enemy soldiers.

* Get good intelligence and research from enlightened, trusted, informed sources.

* Get good training from enlightened, trusted, informed specialists.

 

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