The only way we are ever going to protect our troops overseas is to have highly trained security people. We never had a nuclear weapon stolen from a SAC base. We had nuclear devices in the air around the clock for over 40 years without a major incident. Today's decimated military could not equal that kind of proficiency. The most important part of maintaining security, in and out of the military, is trained personnel.
Technology is secondary.
The initial PBS radio report which I heard on the Dhahran bombing indicated that the enlisted security man knew instantly that something was suspect when he spotted the large truck and the getaway car. None of the subsequent reports even mentioned this. We have used cuts in the military to cut the budget, rather than to protect the security of America. We are beginning to pay the price. They are military personnel.