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Pre - assault indicators always exist before violence is unleashed.

Unless you are walking into a room or walking through dense forest cover, being ambushed is not easy if one has their situational awareness always on and is watching their 6. Most people that get attacked tell that the attacker came suddenly or struck them suddenly and they didn't see it coming. This happens because we are not aware or alert and are not looking for signs of a possible attack.  When we enter a room, say we enter a restaurant, most people will be alert for the first few seconds or a minute or so. That is our act of fimiliarizing with a new environment. But once we get seated at our table then we accept the environment and make it our own. This whole process takes a minute or two and we shut it down. Then we tell that we were attacked suddenly or ambushed etc. Situational awareness is not something you switch on or off. It is something that should always be on. Infact when one starts being situationally aware all the time, it becomes your normal. It become...