Chechnya threatens to arm Mexico

[Flagg]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

Are you deliberately being obtuse?

This training is exactly what the briefing slides say it is. An Unconventional Warfare exercise designed to improve the participants' UW skills.

Look up "Robin Sage" for further details on the smaller, 50 year old, North Carolina based version of the exercise.

TR

I've read everything I can on Robin Sage to try and learn and steal some good ideas for training my soldiers.

I'm not scratching my head on conspiracy theories, I'm scratching my head on all the work, manpower, resources, and money that would have to have been invested in the background in planning, building local community relationships, co-ord, execution to put the EX together.

Sounds like lots of moving parts, including a lot of new(or new-ish) moving parts.

Participating would be cool, but I reckon seeing behind the Wizard of Oz's curtain would be cooler!

[Flagg]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

We've been conducing exercises like Jade Helm for about 50+ years. I have personally been involved in UW and CT exercises that have spanned many states (and countries) and involved many different Special Operations personnel.

Funny how/why the conspiracy theorists have decided to pick Jade Helm as their "The Sky is Falling" issue.

Advent of the internet? Recent political/economic climate?

I'm just in awe of the scale/scope of the EX as it goes WAY beyond what we unilaterally run.

I help run activities for low dozens of candidates on a tight(near non-existent) budget. We've got a bit of continuity going on with one training area and we are planning on shifting elsewhere to avoid templating. Shifting a small programme's training area is making me nervous, I can't even begin to imagine how much more challenging it must be to conduct a much larger and far more complex training activity.