Re: Lt. Cmdr charged with a crime
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:30 am
I'd characterize risk management a little differently. It's not necessarily to accept no unnecessary risk or even to minimize risk, but to transfer risk to others if it cannot be mitigated without expending additional resources. The brass will expend resources to minimize risk to themselves, but risk is merely transferred to everyone else. So, for instance, where the brass works there will be armed security and metal detectors --the troops will be on their own. If someone defends themselves the brass do not benefit and are only exposed to more risk. So, the risk that's being managed is the risk to those in charge and it is redistributed to everyone else. It works the same way for economic risk in our crony capitalist economic system....the risk still exists, but those with the power to do so use the mechanisms of government to transfer that risk and impose it on someone else.K.Mooneyham wrote:I've said this before, but I'll say it again. The "brass" are risk adverse. They operate under a concept called "risk management". For those not familiar with the concept, it's core is to accept no unnecessary risk and to do whatever possible to reduce necessary risk to the absolute minimum. If that is all done, "by the book", whatever bad stuff happens will be considered "acceptable", but will still be studied as to how to minimize that bad stuff without incurring more risk. Now, that's not to say the brass are happy about that bad stuff, just that they accept it. The thought of large numbers of military personnel carrying loaded firearms is an unacceptable risk, especially to the careers of some officers. They cannot afford Private Joe having an accidental/negligent discharge of a firearm. It will go onto someone's performance evaluation as a "failure to establish and maintain proper training standards/lack of leadership/lack of attention to detail", etc. And bye-bye cushy headquarters slot. Now, a terrorist attack that kills a few Joes, well, that is an acceptable risk (though once again, I'm not saying they are happy about it, just that they accept it). Don't believe me, please listen to General Odierno on the subject.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/07/17/a ... tary-bases"I think we have to be careful about over-arming ourselves, and I'm not talking about where you end up attacking each other," Odierno said during a morning breakfast. Instead, he said, it's more about "accidental discharges and everything else that goes along with having weapons that are loaded that causes injuries."