Most experts agree that if you have quality DNA, and you do ordinary marker testing, the kind nearly always done, the process usually takes five to seven days from the moment the process starts.
The process can also be "pushed," if it's urgent enough, as it sometimes is in a serious criminal or medical case, and all the DNA results usually needed for forensic evidence or medical treatment can be obtained within seventy-two hours.
When I first heard the news of Bin Laden's demise last night about 9:00pm, initial reports said he had been killed in a bombing raid about seven days prior, DNA testing was now complete and Bin Laden's identification was confirmed, with the President poised to announce it. The mission that killed him was part of a "kinetic action" .
“Kinetic action, by its nature, provides the instant gratification of measuring effectiveness by physical forensic evidence: a bomb is dropped, a building is destroyed,” Dennis M. Murphy, Professor of Information Operations and Information in Warfare at the U.S. Army War College, writes in Parameter in 2009.
Even better than this, Murphy explains that kinetic actions are all done by trial and error.
- Strategic communication then becomes a series of variations of messages (through actions, images, and words), and selecting and retaining those that work best. This means the “decide, detect, deliver, assess” model is still relevant, but the assessment of results occurs more slowly over time and is more complicated than when the process is applied to kinetic actions.
When I awoke this morning at 3:42am, that story had evolved into a tale within which Navy SEALS surgically stuck Bin Laden's lavish and defended million dollar mansion, hidden cleverly 100 yards from the gate of the Kakul Military Academy, an army-run institution where top officers train...the DNA testing completed in 48 hours and his body buried at sea, "...in accordance with Islamic tradition... "
I want my brass mesh hat.
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