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El Sindicato vs. The Nation State of “not a blade of grass”
DEAR EDITOR,
The current situation in the remote mining communities is a direct threat to the nation. The ability of foreign nationals to illegally cross the borders and set up command and control centres is indicative of the weak security posture of our nation state.
The five basic functions of identifying, protecting, detecting, responding and recovering have failed, because every functional area has already been circumvented in any strategy that we may have had to secure this nation.
I’m not a politician, but I’ve listened to every stakeholder and those with executive power, and concluded that we lack adequate safeguards to secure our nation. I’ve also concluded that there is a divide between those titled politicians and those titled military in this situation. Why is our military training, if not to be excited to respond to this escalation on our borders?
As a nation state, within our territory, we can respond to any threat with the use of kinetic military action to subdue and mitigate the risks of that threat. We do not have to wait on NATO or consult the Tallinn Manual to wage kinetic and other offensive operations on threats within our nation state.
I know that our leaders know this, but they also have a number of other threats to manage and ultimately determine which ones are high priority. Only focusing on the situation on the border, we need to ensure that we have operational readiness to locate, monitor and plan an offensive course of action. This should not only be done by leveraging intelligence from local miners and members of the community. This would be responding to the situation at the same level of abstraction that the threat exists.
We need to now think of the ways in which we can leverage the existing technological advances that the wider world uses and determine the costs and potential advantages of using such strategies. Yes, technological advances in terms of obtaining and using Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR).
What is this and why does this little nation need this? On the simpler side, Guyana finds herself in a very peculiar socio-economic, geo-political and sovereignty-challenged situation. Threats from the opposition and localized actors, and threats from her neighbours. How do we leverage control and gain superiority over all of these challenges?
Our operational readiness will depend on all of the potential threat indicators and inputs into such systems. Our well-trained Guyanese will have the ability to protect this nation and leverage both our military and police infrastructure; and those other agencies such as CANU and Child Protection Service, to respond in kind to any situation that threatens the wellbeing of our nation.
With that said, I’m confident that our minister and military will respond adequately and recover from this situation, and the community and miners will have assurance that this government has the capability of dominating any threat.
Going forward, as we adapt the use of advanced computing capabilities, even the slightest unwanted or unwarranted activity in those remote areas of our country will be dominated.
Whether Venezuela is pussyfooting with the use of proxy gangs and testing their performance and effectiveness of whatever their objectives are – we have a saying of “not a blade of grass.” Ultimately, it’s Guyana, our nation state, that has to respond and determine our Measures of Merit.
Dustin Fraser
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