Reminds me of the drills they had just prior to Y2K. I guess they would be negligent to NOT do drills prior to possible SHTF events.
And we would be negligent to not be aware of what they plan on doing. (Four days of urban MILITARY ops, home invasion, interogations, illegal searchs - for “one” suspected arms dealer?!?)
I know...I know...it does sound a ‘little’ over the top...but as I said, maybe it’s important to know WHEN this was planned.
I suspect there will be numerous observers to document tactics, MOUT techniques, command and communication, organization and SOP as seen from the ground, and they may not all be local or friendly to Americans or the Constitution.
Curious who would volunteer to have their home searched, as this is often a destructive process.
Is this a 'demonstration' on the order of the "reisitance is futile" Borg bit, or just 'practice' for elsewhere/acclimation?
While I understood house-to-house searches in Iraq may have been mandated by operational necessity, I thought of it then as "practice" for here, despite my trust in our military to not act unconstitutionally.
I grow less certain every day, on that.
The timing of this operation is ill concieved, no matter the intent, but this may have been in the works for a couple of years. It would be interesting to know when that planning started.