Executive Protection

Executive Protection

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1 . Introduction

Threat to life is integral to a competitive society , wherein people communities , and nations have different and often conflicting objectives . This often results in antagonism and the option of willingly causing bodily harm to another person has increasingly become an acceptable and valid proposition . The twentieth century has been a watershed of sorts in the history of global violence and has been witness to conflict on a gigantic scale . Two drawn out and disastrous world wars , dramatic developments

in weapons technology , both conventional and nuclear , the gradual and often bloody evolution of a militarily unipolar society , the depredations of fanatical dictators and the rise of global terrorism have made the world an infinitely dangerous place

Nothing illustrates this situation better than the horrific attacks of September 11 , when , a group of brilliant and fanatical Islamic terrorists struck dramatically , at 9 in the morning , at the heart of New York City , killing thousands of civilians , and bringing down the Twin Towers , a glorious symbol of American affluence . Osama bin Laden operating from a remote base in one of the most primitive areas of the world , with the help of a handful of deeply motivated strike soldiers and a shoestring budget , had been able to do what Rommel 's Panzers Goering 's Wehrmacht and Hirohito 's Kamikaze squadrons could not think of achieving a lethal strike at the nerve centre of the United States . The concept of safety changed with the September 11 strikes as Americans realized that even the White House could be hit

While the Americans , supported by the British , responded to the 9 /11 attacks , and to the challenge of terrorism with unprecedented ferocity both in Afghanistan and in Iraq , little improvement could be achieved in the global security situation . Terrorist attacks have continued to happen , in Bombay , in Madrid , in Bali , in London , and of course , in Baghdad , a city that has verily become the killing fields of the twenty first century

Business and trade continues to prosper in the midst of global violence The last two decades have been witness to an explosion in commercial and business activity , caused by the fall of communism , the breakup of the Soviet Union , the establishment of a unipolar and the emergence of China , India , and the South East Asian nations as centres of trade commerce and industry . The future of American and European prosperity and its economic and military leadership , depends upon the exploiting of business opportunities in far flung areas of the world . Executives of American and European business corporations have accordingly been very industrious in mining opportunities , exploiting resources and tapping markets in far flung and potentially dangerous areas

One such area with enormous business potential is the semi autonomous region of Kurdistan . Officially within Iraqi boundaries , the region is pushing for strife ridden Iraq , and has very significant oil reserves . Revenues from exploitation of the oil reserves , which have the potential of dramatically changing the...