Vigilant Shield 2008

There have been some speculation about the motives for this exercise earlier here on ATS, but I havent seen this one before.

The objective is to sustain the war and national security agenda --and of course the possibility of martial law-- within the governmental, nongovernmental and corporate business sectors. Ultimately, the objective is develop across the land, an unequivocal acceptance by key officials (and of their coworkers and subordinates), from the federal to the local level, for an emergency situation, where civil liberties and the rights of citizens would be suspended.

Source: Pacific Free Press

Maybe he is right. Maybe its just about conditioning decision makers into buying the lie of Iran as a threat with WMD's. After all, this exercise will allegedly involve 10000 decision makers and resembles a war-time air scenario rather than an anti-terrorist drill.

This exercise will be going on from Monday to Saturday next week.