MILNET Brief:
Hotspot Threat Situation Report, 9/02/2008


MILNET presents a graphical look at the current hotspots, providing a quick look at the current threat situation using green, yellow, orange and red "thermometers".  You will note that this is not strategic threat based, rather is focused on actual ongoing violence identified as hotspots by MILNET.  The graph is updated weekly.

If you'd like more information on the threat situation, you can check the MILNET aggregated news feed -- usually news articles worldwide will discuss the red and orange threat situations shown below:

The legend for the graph is included as well as a brief explanation of the items listed in the legend.

Hotspot Threat Graph


Thrt
 Current Headlines
High Rate of Casualties on Weekly Basis Afghanistan
Random Bombings in key cities Algeria
East Timor
High Rate of Casualties on Weekly Basis Georgia Republic
High Casualties in key regions of nation India
Indonesia
Very dangerous in some sections of key cit Iraq
Very dangerous in some sections of key cit Israel
Random Violence on weekly basis Lebanon
High Casualties in key regions on weekly basis Pakistan
High Casualties in key regions on weekly basis Philippines
Saudia Arabia
High Casualties in key regions on weekly basis Somalia
High Casualties in key regions on weekly basis Sudan
Random Violences in key regions on weekly basis Thailand
Random Violences in key regions on weekly basis Turkey




The colored bars indicate the severity of the nation's security internal threat level.  The values shown are based upon news reports and are typically generated by our Chief Editor (thus are opinion based).

Analysis of the threat reports include the text overlayed on the "thermometers".  Below are brief explanations of what these letters mean:

Letter
 Term
 Details
A
 Action
 Typically this term indicats an isolated series of various military or terrorist actions spelling danger to local citizens or areas that do not fall into the other categories below.  Examples would be a miiltary airstrike on a terrorist camp or an isolated personal attack by relatively unknown persons
B
 Bombings
 IED/Suicide bombings conducted usually by terrorist organizations
C
 Coup in Progress
 A military coup; Junta has overthrown the government
E
 Ethnic
 Ethnic or Tribal attacks - usually related to ethnic cleansing or genocide
M
 Militant Direct Attack
 Militant armed (rifles, grenades, etc.) attacks on civilians or military
MB
 Mixed Warfare
 Campaign style or simultaneous IEDs, suiciders and/or direct attacks
R
 Rocket/Grenade
 Long distance attacks usually on bases or civilian areas
S
 Sectarian/Factional
 Factions fighting between sects, ethnical tribesman, may also include attacks involving police or military forces involved in security patrols.  Also called an ongoing insurgency
W
 Warfare
 Daily attacks of all types involving armies, aircraft, recon, vehicles


Other Hotspots
Letter
 Term
 Thrt
 Details
A
 Action
 Weekly Clashes between government and rebel forces Sri Lanka, +
B
 Bombings
 Malaysia, Colombia
C
 Coup in Progress
 Mauritania
E
 Ethnic
 Serbia
M
 Militant Direct Attack
 Nigeria, +
MB
 Mixed Warfare

R
 Rocket/Grenade

S
 Sectarian/Factional
 Grozny, Checknya (Genocide?)
W
 Warfare


Human Trafficking





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