Depends ‘which 3,000’. Many times these kinds of exercises are little more than HQ’s moving around units, aircraft & ships in a sand table exercise. A lot of radio traffic & computer analysis but little more than that. Maybe a battalion will actually load up and go somewhere just to test deploy.
Moozlem country-the biggest. Riots over Van Gogh’s unflattering depiction of Mohammed. Thousands of islands. We could scatter forces all around them. Difficult target. Start with East Timor.