...why is the pentagon doing economic warfare exercises?
The article, "Pentagon Preps for Economic Warfare," by Eamon Javers for Yahoo's Politico, starts:
The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs — but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis.
The two-day event near Ft. Meade, Maryland, had all the earmarks of a regular war game. Participants sat along a V-shaped set of desks beneath an enormous wall of video monitors displaying economic data, according to the accounts of three participants.
“It felt a little bit like Dr. Strangelove,” one person who was at the previously undisclosed exercise told POLITICO.
For anyone who knows anything about war games, these things are not done if there is something serious behind the idea. For example:From 1987 until prior to Iraq's August 2, 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Norman Schwarzkopf enacted 7 military exercises for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, 4 of which included an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
So, if the economy is on the up and up and only getting better, why is the pentagon performing these types of war games?
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