The tendency by and large to prefer the linear-analytical and technical approach is often related to an effort to reduce the holistic, adaptive situation to a list of tasks that allow a technical, instrumental management process. Many times this is also true in the analysis of the military-security operative response. At the end of the planning stage, practical people and soldier know how to submit a plan whereby it is possible to organize and build a force. Obviously it is necessary to know how to operate the force, and the operation of force is always based on a concept that takes an executable shape using components that are in essence technical. However, I have chosen to focus here on questions that precede the realm of action and these are at times the most tangible preconditions. This essay discusses the response to the threat at the strategic level and to some extent also the operative level, but does not address the response at the technical or tactical level.