The incidents keep coming. Sometimes one at a time — contained, manageable, resolved before the next begins. Often, concurrent and overlapping, each one pulling on the same stretched workforce and the same fractured attention. Plans exist. Exercises have been run.  And yet when a critical event arrives — moving faster than the briefings, involving partners who have never operated together under pressure — the gap between what was prepared and what is possible becomes visible in real time.  Three  gaps are especially consequential. Gap 1: Response network preparedness Whether the emergency response network is…