US Army Wargaming Mil Response to Tea Party

[Jeff. State]

US Army Wargaming Mil Response to Tea Party
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Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 4, AD 2012 8:37 PM MST

I tried to tweet this but the website in question, SmallWarsJournal.com , causes all tweets to go to the home page. Please spread and repost this. It needs to be seen by as many people as possible. Here's the link:
Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future
Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A


This isn't some wild bee-ess from some Alex Jones site. This is the real deal. The author is a retired Colonel currently on staff at Ft. Leavenworth, which is the hub of all flag officer advanced education and indoctrination. Ft. Leavenworth is not called "the Little Pentagon" for nothing.

The piece is lengthy, but worth the read. It is basically war gaming how the United States military would be deployed to put down a "Tea Party insurgency". Some choice quotes:


Under present law, which initially stemmed from bad feelings about Reconstruction, the military’s domestic role is highly circumscribed. In the situation we lay out below, even though the governor refuses to seek federal help to quell the uprising (the usual channel for military assistance), the Constitution allows the president broad leeway in times of insurrection.


Coupled with a gradual build-up of federal forces in the local area, all covered by the media, the effect of this pressure will compound over time and quite possibly cause doubt about the correctness of the events in Darlington in the minds of its’ citizens and the insurrectionists who control the town...
The design of this plan to restore the rule of law to Darlington will include information/influence operations designed to present a picture of the federal response and the inevitable defeat of the insurrection.


Combat units will conduct overt Show of Force operations to remind the insurrectionists they are now facing professional military forces, with all the training and equipment that implies...
A focus on the humanitarian aspect of the effort will be politically more palatable for the state and local officials. Federal forces continue to tighten the noose as troops seize and secure power and water stations, radio and TV stations, and hospitals.

and this from the comment thread, which is every bit as interesting as the article itself:


A note of caution to those who have taken offense to the Tea Party- disenfranchised white males is a reality. The more comments we post on here taking offense to the scenario show the public what shade our professional military truly has. The Black Panthers and Nation of Islam have been marginalized and will never gain traction because of their idiocy. The Tea Party and potential fundamentalist groups who follow it will have the resources to make things caustic.



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From the "Small wars" link
Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A

The Scenario (2016)

The Great Recession of the early twenty-first century lasts far longer than anyone anticipated. After a change in control of the White House and Congress in 2012, the governing party cuts off all funding that had been dedicated to boosting the economy or toward relief. The United States economy has flatlined, much like Japan’s in the 1990s, for the better part of a decade. By 2016, the economy shows signs of reawakening, but the middle and lower-middle classes have yet to experience much in the way of job growth or pay raises. Unemployment continues to hover perilously close to double digits, small businesses cannot meet bankers’ terms to borrow money, and taxes on the middle class remain relatively high. A high-profile and vocal minority has directed the public’s fear and frustration at nonwhites and immigrants. After almost ten years of race-baiting and immigrant-bashing by right-wing demagogues, nearly one in five Americans reports being vehemently opposed to immigration, legal or illegal, and even U.S.-born nonwhites have become occasional targets for mobs of angry whites.

In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party” movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest. Activists remove the chief of police and either disarm local police and county sheriff departments or discourage them from interfering. In truth, this is hardly necessary. Many law enforcement officials already are sympathetic to the tea party’s agenda, know many of the people involved, and have made clear they will not challenge the takeover. The militia members are organized and have a relatively well thought-out plan of action.

With Darlington under their control, militia members quickly move beyond the city limits to establish “check points” – in reality, something more like choke points -- on major transportation lines. Traffic on I-95, the East Coast’s main north-south artery; I-20; and commercial and passenger rail lines are stopped and searched, allegedly for “illegal aliens.” Citizens who complain are immediately detained. Activists also collect “tolls” from drivers, ostensibly to maintain public schools and various city and county programs, but evidence suggests the money is actually going toward quickly increasing stores of heavy weapons and ammunition. They also take over the town web site and use social media sites to get their message out unrestricted.

When the leaders of the group hold a press conference to announce their goals, they invoke the Declaration of Independence and argue that the current form of the federal government is not deriving its “just powers from the consent of the governed” but is actually “destructive to these ends.” Therefore, they say, the people can alter or abolish the existing government and replace it with another that, in the words of the Declaration, “shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” While mainstream politicians and citizens react with alarm, the “tea party” insurrectionists in South Carolina enjoy a groundswell of support from other tea party groups, militias, racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, anti-immigrant associations such as the Minutemen, and other right-wing groups. At the press conference the masked militia members’ uniforms sport a unit seal with a man wearing a tricorn hat and carrying a musket over the motto “Today’s Minutemen.” When a reporter asked the leaders who are the “red coats” the spokesman answered, “I don’t know who the redcoats are…it could be federal troops.” Experts warn that while these groups heretofore have been considered weak and marginal, the rapid coalescence among them poses a genuine national threat.

THIS is why active duty and vets must think now of who and what they are sworn to protect.

Eventually we will get to the point where the "scenario" is reality.

[Jeff. State]

Mike V's site already has their analysis on this "gem".

Sipsey Street Irregulars: Bringing the War Back Home. "Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland": Getting the military to start preparing for the violent repression of its own citizenry. US Army "deep thinker" creates an "enemy" out of the Tea Partie

[JK23112]

While I am far right of center and have some 'tea party' blood in my veins, I do not think the aforementioned "Darlington" scenario is very realistic. It makes the 'militia' and 'tea party' types sound like a bunch of thieving thugs - with the searches, collecting tolls, etc., etc. Also, the 'tea party' folks do not have anything in common with the Ku Klux Klan, Skinheads or other neo-fascist groups (all of whom are opposed to the freedom & liberty the tea-partiers hold sacred).

Not saying anything is impossible; but such things are not likely with the 'tea party' type folks I know. I see a different scenario where rogue federal troops (or they would be made to APPEAR rogue) or foreign troops acting with them decide to follow someone's order to disarm private citizens and confsicate all firearms. If that ever happens, the excrement will hit the windmaking device.

There are more than 300,000,000 firearms in this nation - in the hands of some 75 to 80 million citizens. Sure, small arms are no match for Apache helicopters, Hellfire missiles or 20mm cannons and .50 caliber machine guns; but bear in mind what kind of guerilla warfare would occur with the 'boots on the ground' trying to go house to house. It would be a chocolate mess to the max!


I can only hope some sanity is restored to Washington before things get so bad that this kind of mini-revolution seems to be the best alternative. I contend that the 'tea party' folks are trying to PREVENT such a scenario before they'd ever want to be part of it.