Bodyguard History: One of the terms used in Close Protection / Bodyguarding is Concentric circles, The historic view on them is from Tsun Zu who proclaimed that the best defense were to build layers of defenses. IE. You would have Outer city walls, then guards, then a moat, then an inner city wall, more guards and so on. Sometime in the 1980ies (The earliest note I can find is from an ESI paper from 1993), someone dubbed it concentric circles, probably for textbook purposes. The term is actually incorrect. In mathematics concentric circles, they have a stronger concentratino inside out, are equally shaped (or developed in speed) and running parallel with each other. In close protection, that is almost NEVER the case. We still put up several layers, as the brilliant Chinese general and philosopher did more than 2000 years ago, but making them equally sized, shaped and parallel is futile. The real kicker in the strategy of making such a defense is, that an attacking force never know, which ring of defense is the strongest, hence the attacking force never know where to utilize most energy - They simply wont know when the defense is beaten and thereby most attack plans are abandoned. An example of such a ring can be done by placing a physical barrier (wall or fence) electronic security (CCTV + alarms), mechanical security (Gates, boulders, doors, locks) guards (armed, unarmed), dogs (trained security dogs) bodyguards and a safe room. Some may override each other, but mostly they operate within a fixed perimeter and communicate with the rest. From an attacking point of view, they all require different measures and if your vision is blocked, you never know, how much electronics, how many guards, dogs or bodyguards are there. The circles we call concentric are not - they are almost never parallel - but the term sticks, for educational purposes.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 10:42:54 +0000
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