The Americans spent two billion dollars on a new Air Force One, a flying fortress with missile countermeasures, hardened communications and an actual operating theatre. And when a real assassination threat finally turned up, the Secret Service surveyed all this technology and chose the sandwich lorry. The most protected human being in history fled a NATO summit in the vehicle that delivers chicken or pasta to row 34, hoisted down on a hydraulic platform designed for trolleys of orange juice, at a blistering eleven kilometres an hour. If the Iranians had attacked, he could have been overtaken by a man jogging. His staff were then loaded onto the real plane and flown across Europe as bait, which I imagine featured prominently in the next employee satisfaction survey. Churchill had a bunker. De Gaulle had a Citroën doing 130 through gunfire. America has a refrigerated box of bread rolls. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1