People need to relax. Robin Sage has been going on for decades and the enemy was always the “government of Pineland”.
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Sorry. FedGov has toasted its reputation in just about every way one can imagine. It’s so badly toasted that they’ve succeeded in making me think everything they do is nefarious and self serving, because I’ve yet to see evidence against this premise.
Not disagreeing with your premise, simply pointing out that this has been part of the Army’s SF training for decades and always the same fictional combatants involved. This isn’t new.