How to Enhance Your Security Awareness for your Local Area

Part One - Understanding Your Operating Environment

Dear Readers,

In beginning this series of articles, I want to personally say a massive thank you. When Intelligence Digest started, I honestly did not expect it to reach the subscriber count it is currently at - nearly 450 and counting.

This is incredible to see, and my thanks cannot be expressed enough. As a thank-you, Intelligence Digest is kicking off a series of articles that will aim to provide practical advice that ordinary people can do to strengthen their security awareness in their lives.

The tools, considerations and techniques provided here are simple and practical, requiring no previous specialised experience like military/law enforcement, or the purchase of online programs to implement. True to Intelligence Digest’s mission, these articles will help advance the ordinary Australian’s security knowledge and awareness that they can incorporate into their everyday lives.

So with further ado, welcome to Part One. This will be a three-part series breaking each component down for ease of understanding.

The overall basic concepts will be free, and then the practical elements will be discussed for our wonderful paid subscribers.

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PART ONE - Understanding Your Operating Environment (OE)

To begin, lets define what we mean by ‘Operating Environment’ for the every day person practically. Whilst the term is utilised by militaries/law enforcement to describe their area of operations, the OE can be thought of as the local area that encompasses your pattern of life. In other words, the destinations that during the week you frequent due to commitments, routines etc. Some general places may be:

• Your Residence

• Your Work address

• Your main Shopping hub for groceries

• Your sport/recreational gyms

• Restaurants/pubs you frequent

• Your child/ren’s school.

However, this is by no means an exhaustive list and will differ for everyone, just like how my OE will be different to yours.

For ease of learning, lets assume that the majority of places that are part of your pattern of life are within an approximate five-to-seven kilometre radius.

The next points will almost certainly already be known by you, the readers. What its taken is the articulation of this for it to make sense in how you view the world - real practical insights into how a little bit of different thinking can make you vastly more aware of an ever-increasing threat environment.

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