General Anthony Tata, author, “Dark Winter.” I think the President is making the exact right move in Syria. All the geniuses who are protesting the withdrawal of troops from Syria are the same geniuses who cooked the books on ISIS intelligence and gave rise to ISIS.”
I used a copy of the Dark Winter exercise extensively in my work in 2002-2003 when I was involved in a plan to vaccinate the US population against smallpox in 30 days.
I never learned why this plan was ordered up by the White House - I was dying to know if they had evidence of existing stocks of virus other than the known ones in Atlanta and Koltsovo.
Anyway, I never found out, but the planning was a fascinating window into the mind of a certain type of leader who would include “make sure people keep shopping” in a semi-doomsday scenario.
I didn’t know until this morning that it was a book. If you don’t know about the exercise (which was ordered and run BEFORE 9/11), you should grab the book. The simulation was very detailed, and I believe the lowest number of deaths in any iteration of the scenario was 30 million.