Originally Posted by
cbn42
As we established earlier, terrorism is so rare that you can't measure changes in terrorist activity from year to year in any meaningful way.
Of course year-over-year changes can be measured and are measured. Actually, whenever the POTUS is set to go somewhere abroad, we use the measures to determine what security playbook to use with regard to more than just the advance team.
Originally Posted by
cbn42
So if you don't look at terrorism, how do you propose to measure the effectiveness of security measures?
Your "if" is not applicable. It would be included.
How about getting back to the basics of WEI-interdiction measures and the costs related to that?