The LA maneuvers involved 400,000 men and were spread out over most of the state. Not limited to a base.
Practicing counter-insurgency on a base makes a lot of sense if you think you’ll be attacked there. If you think they are more likely to attack in civilian areas, you need to practice maneuvers where you will need to fight.
You don’t think they might learn something useful by having to deal with traffic, local LEOs, worried civilians, etc.? All of which they’d have to deal with during a real attack.
At Fort Polk.
And the population then was rather sparser.
Again, what is wrong with using fort Irwin?
Or, revolutionary idea, both NTC and jrtc combined!
The purported bad guys of this ex aren’t Islamic terrorists.
This admin never uses the term terrorist to describe Muslims.
This admin never uses the term terrorist to describe Muslims.
http://fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
If this regime, including military brass who today seem to be more akin to Soviet political officers and beholden to the CINC than the Constitution - are so concerned about Jihadist terrorism, why is the Southern border wide open? Why are Islamic ‘refugees’ from Syria, Iraq Somalia, Yemen and A’stan being flown into the USA and resettled under the cover of darkness? Why is this regime hell-bent on allowing Iran to have nukes?
In my estimation these exercises are not training to deal with a Jihadist insurgency in the USA. Not at all. Garland Texas last week is yet another case-in-point about how the Obama regime looks at Islamic terrorists versus freedom of speech.
Jade Helm exercises look to be for the purpose of dealing with an enraged and unruly citizenry who refuse to abide by whatever new edicts and policies this regime imposes regardless whether or not we have an event that precipitates it.
With all the talk on nationalizing all police forces in the USA under the federal beast, whether or not you accept the concern - Jade helm has provided counter insurgency training against American communities that refuse to comply with any such efforts.