Source: American Free Press
Keith Johnson
The Alternative Futures Symposium in
Chantilly, Va. was all part of the U.S. Army’s Unified Quest 2012
exercise, the latest in a series of annual war games that in recent
years has focused on America’s response to a global financial meltdown
in which average citizens took to the streets en masse.
Keith Johnson
The Alternative Futures Symposium in
Chantilly, Va. was all part of the U.S. Army’s Unified Quest 2012
exercise, the latest in a series of annual war games that in recent
years has focused on America’s response to a global financial meltdown
in which average citizens took to the streets en masse.
In November 2010, CNBC’s Eamon
Javers had this to say about last year’s exercise: “Ever since the crash
of 2008, the defense-intelligence establishment has been paying a lot
of attention to global markets and how they can serve as a threat to
U.S. national security interests.”
Javers went on to report: “The Army is
having a very interesting yearlong exercise called Unified Quest 2011.
In that war-gaming series, the Army is looking at the implications of a
large-scale economic breakdown in the U.S. that would force the Army to
keep domestic order amid civil unrest and deal with global fragmented
power and drastically lower budgets.”
According to Javers, 30 military
officials from the Marine Corps War College were concerned enough to
visit the trading floor of JP Morgan in October 2010 to study volatile
markets and the economy.
Inside Defense magazine also
reported on Unified Quest 2011 in a November 2010 article entitled “Army
Officials Think Through the What-ifs of a Global Economic Collapse,”
wherein it was revealed: “Officials picked the scenario of a worldwide
economic collapse because it was deemed a plausible course of events
given the current global security environment. In such a future, the
United States would be broke, causing a domino effect that would push
economies across the globe into chaos.”
