Field technique, kit reviews and practitioner notes.
The FCDO recorded on 21 October that Nigeria confirmed its first imported Ebola case on 20 October. What the FCDO and the WHO say travellers must check, and planning points for protection teams.
The FCDO says it will support families and work with the local government, but will not pay ransoms. What that means for a protection plan in a high kidnap threat country.
Durga Puja runs from 16 to 21 October, and the FCDO warns of large crowds at temples, extra security and past intercommunal violence. A short movement plan for protection teams.
The FCDO's Saudi Arabia advice says the greatest risk is from falling debris caused by intercepts. A short drill for protection teams: pick the shelter point on arrival, move on the alert, and do not film.
After a deadly rescue off Somalia, what the industry guidance the IMO points ships to says about the citadel, embarking armed guards, and how crews and protection teams should act if a ship is boarded.
The FCDO says it has no general duty of care abroad, will rarely evacuate, and withholds its special assistance for terrorism victims where it advised against all travel. Build the plan to stand on its own.
A principal is most exposed on the move. A journey management plan is the discipline that turns a route into a controlled, rehearsed movement, and it is now formalised in an international standard.
Martyn's Law, the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, hands protective teams a ready-made checklist for a venue recce. Its statutory guidance sets two tiers by capacity and four public protection procedures a responsible site should be able to run: evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication. Knowing them turns an advance from a walk-round into a structured assessment.
The Resuscitation Council UK reordered its first aid priorities in October 2025, and the SIA's mandatory CP refresher now sits on top of it. Here is the escalation sequence and the tourniquet discipline for when you are first on scene.
Armed drones and loitering munitions are no longer confined to declared front lines. Two UN primaries from this year show the reach: a drone striking a residential block in a Romanian city, and OCHA warning that drone strikes are killing civilians in Sudan. Here is what that means for how a protective team reads the sky.
The Level 3 Award in Counter-Terrorism Protective Security and Preparedness gives teams a recognised route to build real capability, not just tick a compliance box. It is a useful marker as Martyn's Law readiness moves up the agenda.
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A man who drove an attacker to survey the UK Defence Academy has been jailed for life. The case is a clean study in pre-attack behaviour.
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GNSS jamming and spoofing is now a standing hazard across both the Strait of Hormuz and parts of the Red Sea. The mitigations are old-school: trust radar and visual bearings, drill for a no-GPS transit, and log every anomaly.
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The current US maritime advisory tells ships to ignore Iranian diversion orders, stay clear of naval units and expect degraded navigation. The tradecraft it describes applies to any team moving on GPS in the region.
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The electronic-warfare environment around Hormuz has degraded position, navigation and timing for months. Ships have appeared parked over airports and a nuclear plant. If you plan movement in the Gulf, treat GNSS as advisory, not authoritative.
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With the strait sealed, tanker attacks on the southern lane, and Iranian strikes hitting Gulf-state infrastructure, movement planning has to assume degradation across sea, air and shore. A working checklist.
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EASA's conflict-zone bulletin over four Gulf states runs to 29 July, and the strait is closed by risk. Two primary corridors are degraded at once, so movement planning has to assume it.
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With EASA telling airlines to avoid four Gulf states until 29 July and the Hormuz sea route effectively shut, teams have to plan movement around two degraded corridors at once.
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Iran's strikes have put Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Manama inside the threat ring. Aviation regulators are steering airlines away and one Gulf government has told residents to shelter. Here is what that changes for teams staging principals through the region.
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Iran's strikes have repeatedly reached Gulf-state soil, from Kuwait and Bahrain to Qatar and Jordan, with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and one-way drones. For operators on static sites, the tradecraft is warning discipline, hardened cover and counter-drone awareness.
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The IRGC says it hit Monday's two tankers because they switched off their navigation systems and slipped south through Omani waters. That inverts the usual advice. In a strait saturated with GPS jamming and spoofing, going dark used to be protection; now one side is treating a dark, off-lane transit as hostile intent.
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GPS jamming and spoofing around Hormuz has been persistent since the conflict began, at one point scrambling more than 1,100 ships in a day and placing vessels on land and over a nuclear plant. With the strait back at war, position spoofing is a standing planning factor for any transit.
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GNSS spoofing and jamming have scrambled navigation across the Gulf since the war began, throwing more than a thousand ships onto impossible tracks in a single day and corrupting AIS. Assume degraded positioning near Hormuz and fall back on radar, visual and terrestrial cross-checks.
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GPS jamming and spoofing across the Gulf has put more than a thousand ships on airports, on land and over a nuclear plant on their own screens. With drifting-mine risk still assessed as live, a false position is not just a navigation error — it can steer you into danger.
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GPS jamming and spoofing across the Gulf is putting ships on land, in airports and through a nuclear plant on their own screens. It has affected more than a thousand vessels. Any Gulf task now has to assume degraded navigation as a baseline, not an anomaly.
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With cover repricing and traffic near zero, teams that still have to move through the Gulf fall back on the joint-industry Best Management Practices. Here is what the framework asks — and where protective teams fit.
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Satellite-navigation spoofing across Hormuz and the Gulf displaces ships onto airports and inland sites and disrupts aircraft navigation across the region. With the war reignited this week, it is a live planning factor again, not a conflict-zone curiosity.
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The new US body-armour standard now has a compliant-products list, a new mid-rifle level and better test methods for women's armour. It does not mean binning the plates you already own.
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Safety Information Bulletin 2022-02R4, issued 3 July, adds standard pilot-ATC reporting phraseology and EFB integration, and names the corridors protection teams actually fly: Mediterranean, Black Sea, Middle East, Baltic, Arctic.
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The FAA's updated interference guide lists Iraq and Iran among the worst spoofing zones, and Tehran's funeral-week airspace closures sit on top of it. Position data can lie; the movement plan has to assume it.
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Authorities have logged 1,139 drones near tournament venues and the FBI has seized more than 500. A 1 July interim rule, enabled by the 2026 NDAA, lets more state and local agencies join federally authorised counter-UAS operations. The volume — mostly careless, not hostile — is the triage problem.
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Halfway through the tournament, authorities have logged 1,139 drone detections and more than 600 incursions into restricted airspace. A new interim rule from 1 July widens who can act. Most of the traffic is careless, not hostile, which is the hard part.
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US authorities have intercepted more than 300 drones near World Cup venues, most of them careless rather than hostile. A 365-million-dollar counter-UAS effort now covers every match and fan zone, and the tournament runs to 19 July — a live case study in grey-space airspace control.
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The technique that took $25m from Arup can spoof a principal's instruction, a duress call or a driver's change of plan. Incoming EU disclosure law binds the honest, not the criminal, so the defence is a verification protocol.
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The US ballistic standard has retired the old Level II-IV labels for HG1, HG2, RF1, RF2 and RF3, adding a new intermediate rifle tier. Older 0101.06 armour stays valid through 2027, but new procurement needs the new vocabulary.
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A new CoTCCC paper puts a clock on tourniquet management. Time-stamp every application and reassess within two hours.
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The Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care's 1 May update is the most operationally significant in years. The field antibiotic, the airway sequence and the tourniquet rules have all moved — and a kit packed last year will be wrong on at least one.
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The 2026 practitioner guidance on individual first-aid kits is blunt on two points operators still get wrong: an applied tourniquet stays on, and uncertified tourniquets do not belong in a kit. The current guidance builds timed reassessment and staged conversion into drills, and the failure rates on knock-off hardware are the reason.
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The UK has committed £155m to terrestrial and satellite-independent timing and navigation, and the MoD has just funded a deployable eLoran concept. Plan movement on the assumption GPS can be taken away.
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The 1 May 2026 TCCC guidelines make moderate-to-severe TBI a hard-target casualty: keep oxygen above 92%, systolic above 100, and get to neurosurgery inside five hours. A CP medic's brief.
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Version 1.1 of the FAA's GPS interference guide hardens the practical drill for jamming and spoofing: how to spot it, what fails, and how to cross-check. For teams running air movement through contested airspace, it is the current reference.
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TCCC Proposed Change 25-2 makes tourniquet reassessment a hard requirement at every responder tier and limits conversion beyond two hours to medical personnel. The lessons came out of Ukraine, and they reach straight into protective work.
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Two US bills this spring would let certified private and infrastructure operators detect and bring down drones — authority currently held almost entirely by federal agencies. For site and venue security, the legal question is now sharper than the hardware question.
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Jamming and spoofing have spread well beyond conflict zones. The FAA has revised its interference guide and the EU has moved on a shared monitoring picture. For teams running air or precision-nav movement, degraded GPS is now a baseline assumption.
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The new US standard replaces the Roman-numeral levels with HG and RF threat codes. It is live and testing is underway, but no products are yet on the 0101.07 Compliant Products List — which changes what claims you can trust.
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The updated US standard scraps the old Roman-numeral levels for HG and RF ratings and adds tougher tests, but the compliant-products list isn't live yet. Know what you're actually buying.
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The Pentagon has cleared CACI's SkyValor for joint-force use while a leading maker plans a 500% production ramp. Long-range, non-kinetic C-UAS is becoming buyable.
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Jamming and spoofing have spread well beyond conflict zones, and the FAA has rewritten its guidance in response. If your principal flies, satellite navigation interference belongs in the advance.
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The Safer Skies Act has handed US state and local police drone-disruption authority for the first time, with $500m in detection-kit grants prioritised at World Cup venues. Private teams remain detection-only — plan accordingly.
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What teams are carrying, why it is shifting, and the trade-offs before you spec a job.
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