Scott Mann

And you either believe at this point that there is a viable threat against the That is complex, local, distributed, looks more like October 7 than it does 9-11. That is very likely in the next year or two, or you don't, you know, and if you don't, okay, like, Godspeed. But if you do where we were, okay, then perhaps in addition to the analysis, we should start

Until we do bring this together with our government, which we've really got to have that, that private public relationship on an unprecedented scale, what could we, you know, if it's a duty to warn up, you know, maybe it's a duty to prepare down and in. And how could we help that conversation? So we started looking at what if we just self-published.

Until we do bring this together with our government, which we've really got to have that, that private public relationship on an unprecedented scale, what could we, you know, if it's a duty to warn up, you know, maybe it's a duty to prepare down and in. And how could we help that conversation? So we started looking at what if we just self-published.

Until we do bring this together with our government, which we've really got to have that, that private public relationship on an unprecedented scale, what could we, you know, if it's a duty to warn up, you know, maybe it's a duty to prepare down and in. And how could we help that conversation? So we started looking at what if we just self-published.

uh a book that really just looked at not just the threat analysis but scenarios that have happened in the past of where we get hit or other places get hit where they live work and play And so we put together this small book and, you know, borrowing from Winston Churchill when he tried to warn of the gathering storm in World War II. That's what we named this project, The Gathering Storm.

uh a book that really just looked at not just the threat analysis but scenarios that have happened in the past of where we get hit or other places get hit where they live work and play And so we put together this small book and, you know, borrowing from Winston Churchill when he tried to warn of the gathering storm in World War II. That's what we named this project, The Gathering Storm.

uh a book that really just looked at not just the threat analysis but scenarios that have happened in the past of where we get hit or other places get hit where they live work and play And so we put together this small book and, you know, borrowing from Winston Churchill when he tried to warn of the gathering storm in World War II. That's what we named this project, The Gathering Storm.

And we just looked at it. And so from, you know, from my part in it and a couple other contributors, we looked at case studies. So a lot like how U.S. Army Special Ops Command and others do case studies and they'll migrate those practical lessons learned into operators modern times. That's what we did. And we just looked at unclassified. We looked at The D.C. sniper.

And we just looked at it. And so from, you know, from my part in it and a couple other contributors, we looked at case studies. So a lot like how U.S. Army Special Ops Command and others do case studies and they'll migrate those practical lessons learned into operators modern times. That's what we did. And we just looked at unclassified. We looked at The D.C. sniper.

And we just looked at it. And so from, you know, from my part in it and a couple other contributors, we looked at case studies. So a lot like how U.S. Army Special Ops Command and others do case studies and they'll migrate those practical lessons learned into operators modern times. That's what we did. And we just looked at unclassified. We looked at The D.C. sniper.

We looked at the Bedland school siege with the with the Chechens, where they they moved children over a thousand into a gymnasium and threw explosives up on the basketball goals and held terrain and held the Russian special ops at bay. We looked at Mumbai, which is a very compelling place.

We looked at the Bedland school siege with the with the Chechens, where they they moved children over a thousand into a gymnasium and threw explosives up on the basketball goals and held terrain and held the Russian special ops at bay. We looked at Mumbai, which is a very compelling place.

We looked at the Bedland school siege with the with the Chechens, where they they moved children over a thousand into a gymnasium and threw explosives up on the basketball goals and held terrain and held the Russian special ops at bay. We looked at Mumbai, which is a very compelling place.

Version of what Sarah and others have warned about in 2008, where roughly 10 terrorists locked down a city of 19 million, doing complex attacks, holding terrain, killing well over 100 people. And it was almost a foreshadowing. of what we think we could expect here in the homeland. And we just, and we'd October 7, New Orleans.

Version of what Sarah and others have warned about in 2008, where roughly 10 terrorists locked down a city of 19 million, doing complex attacks, holding terrain, killing well over 100 people. And it was almost a foreshadowing. of what we think we could expect here in the homeland. And we just, and we'd October 7, New Orleans.

Version of what Sarah and others have warned about in 2008, where roughly 10 terrorists locked down a city of 19 million, doing complex attacks, holding terrain, killing well over 100 people. And it was almost a foreshadowing. of what we think we could expect here in the homeland. And we just, and we'd October 7, New Orleans.

So we looked at all these and what we did was we started to pull out a lot of the commonalities that individuals and communities should be thinking about. And I'll kind of throw it back to you there and we can, you know, we can go deeper on any of those things that you want because there were a lot of lessons learned, I think that are super helpful.

So we looked at all these and what we did was we started to pull out a lot of the commonalities that individuals and communities should be thinking about. And I'll kind of throw it back to you there and we can, you know, we can go deeper on any of those things that you want because there were a lot of lessons learned, I think that are super helpful.

So we looked at all these and what we did was we started to pull out a lot of the commonalities that individuals and communities should be thinking about. And I'll kind of throw it back to you there and we can, you know, we can go deeper on any of those things that you want because there were a lot of lessons learned, I think that are super helpful.

But one of the things that we came out of it with Sean that surprised me was one, you The relative ease of finding people who were on the ground or who responded to those events. I mean, even Mumbai, October 7, just doing peer-to-peer discussions on lessons learned was super eye-opening. And I think something that's available to law enforcement, emergency operations centers across the country.