Scott Mann

They've seen these people fight.

They know how they fight.

They know what they bring to the party.

And we have those kinds of war fighters all over the country.

If we started to create red cell conversations about that, and you've got organizations like the ones that wrote this book, why not connect them to state and local leaders all over the country and allow them to have forums on Zoom and other forums where they can talk about this and what to expect?

I mean, to me, that's a no-brainer.

And it could be done the same way Pineapple Express and these other groups did it.

We don't need permission.

And I think they're already doing a lot of heavy lifting, but now I think they need to be connected to the folks at the grassroots community levels, because I think that's where this thing's going to show up.

I mean, I think it varies state to state.

And I think, again, this would be a great idea to maybe bring in –

some state administrators who are proactive in this and let them talk about what they're doing or what they're seeing or what's possible.

But what I've heard so far just in conversations, and again, this is a bit anecdotal, but there are, you know,

really solid state agency capabilities that are in play here as first responders that have looked at terrorism before.

They have a good chain of command.

It's really about prioritizing the effort.

And I think it's really about recognizing, because it's almost like,

If you think about it, in the 20-year war that we fought, you had this, because of the post-9-11 commission and all of that, you had really a pretty good architecture of federal, state, local information sharing.

It was very flat, very collaborative, you know, coming out of the smoldering ruins of 9-11.

There was a lot of cross-agency collaboration and I think multi-echelon collaboration.