From our list of the Components of Situational Awareness (Observation, Perception, Description, Memory, Human Behavior and Deduction) we just have Deduction left to cover, before getting in to some useful practical exercises in the next article. Deduction a. You have been honing your Situation Awareness skills for some time, paying great attention ...

Reminder: Components of Situational Awareness: Observation Perception Description Memory Human Behavior Deduction By now you should have a good handle on how to work on the skills of Observation, Perception and Description. Feel free to re-read our last article before diving in here. a. Memory. i. Tier One observation skills will not help you much ...

There is a scene in the movie The Bourne Identity where actor Matt Damon reels off a bunch of detailed facts about people sitting in a restaurant to the female lead actress ("our waitress is left handed", "the guy at the bar weighs 215 pounds and knows how to handle himself etc). In another restaurant movie scene, actor Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock...

Our main thrust is to teach you to be surveillance Aware such that you have the ability to spot untoward interest targeting you in many circumstances. In coming articles we will have much to say about creating Surveillance Detection Routes (SDR) as part of your Anti-Surveillance drills and even Counter Surveillance possibilities. We will talk about...

To further our discussion of the world of surveillance and counter measures, we need to establish some standard terminology. Different practitioners around the country and around the world maintain their own definitions for different bits of the business but, for the sake of consistency here, let us use the following: Intelligence - useful informat...

Understanding the art of surveillance – both detecting it and performing it when necessary – is importance to our continued well-being. Physical surveillance, the art and science of following people around, logging their activities and catching them in some interesting act is an important subject for any member of a political resistance in a police...