-Caveat Lector- More Urban Warfare Exercises in American Cities. This is, pure and simple, a Psychological Operations (PsyOps) against the American People. Acclimatizing Americans to accept a military police state and to get local police to accept the authority of federal police power in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Note even the CIA is involved. ---------------------
Pentagon Holds Huge War Exercise By PAULINE JELINEK Associated Press Writer July 29, 2002, 8:46 PM EDT SUFFOLK, Va. -- It's the year 2007 and a rogue military commander has staged a coup in an earthquake-stricken nation of the Middle East. That's the hypothetical scenario 13,500 men and women of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines are reacting to in the largest exercise in U.S. military history -- an event aimed at planning for warfighting of the future. "It will not only test the effectiveness of the force, but also the progress we have made thus far in transforming" the U.S. military to a force that can "meet the threats and the challenges of the 21st century," Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday after a morning of briefings on the event. Called "Millennium Challenge," the exercise is based on a real-world military threat in a country on which the military has realistic data, officials said, declining to name the country. Forces are doing live training maneuvers at nine locations, including off the coast of San Diego and at bases in Southern California and Nevada, and computer simulations in 17 locations. In Victorville, Calif., special forces will help Marines destroy a hypothetical weapons of mass destruction site at the former George Air Force Base. Marines also will engage in a 96-hour urban combat exercise there. The exercise is "important to future battlefield successes" because it will help coordinate work of the four services into "a force that is interoperable ... agile, lethal" and capitalizes on the information revolution and new technologies, Rumsfeld told a press conference at the U.S. Joint Forces Command warfighting center in Suffolk. The exercise was mandated by Congress, which will use it to judge progress being made in the military's transformation into a lighter and quicker force more geared to today's threats. Two years of planning have gone into determining how the military might respond to what officials called a small-scale situation with the potential to escalate into a major war. It is set in 2007 to factor in not only technology but other changes likely to be in place by then, including stronger cooperation between the military and other government agencies. The exercise includes officials from the departments of State and Energy as well as the CIA and U.S. Agency for International Development. Copyright � 2002, The Associated Press -end article- ------------------ -iNFoWaRZ Submit! Submit! Submit! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
