Okay, NK nukes being in the news, I thought it was appropriate to bring this to your attention. William Arkin writes for the WaPo in a blog about National and Homeland Security. Recently he has written about an upcoming military exercise called Vigilant Shield. So when we strike North Korea sometime in December, it will be as a result of a military exercise going live. See, nothing to worry about folks. It's just an exercise. Don't you just love the news?
(Sarcasm through gritted teeth there, in case you couldn't tell.) More on Vigilant Shield below the fold.
Arkin has also
written a book about military code names, so I'm going to guess he probably has sources for this type of information, as opposed to being some kind of tinfoil hatter or something like that.
Here's how Arkin leads off in his post, called Early Warning:
(From the Vigilant Shield 07 exercise scenario, taken from U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) briefing documents dated August 2006. The material in brackets is added by the author to explain acronyms.
Irmingham = Iran
Nemazee = North Korea
Ruebek = Russia
Churya = China
William M. Arkin)
"* Road to Conflict (RTC): 11 Sep - 15 Oct 06
- Initial Irmingham Enrichment I&W [indications and warning]
- Initial Ruebeki & Irmingham Involvement
- Ruebek I&W, PACFLT [U.S. Pacific Fleet] Sub Deployments
- Initial Nemazee ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] I&W
- Initial MHLD [homeland defense?] I&W
- Strategic IO [information operations (cyber warfare)] operations (Ruebek & Churya)
- Ruebek & Irmingham Conduct Joint AD [air defense] Exercise
* Phase 1 / Deployment: 4 - 8 Dec 06
But really you should go and check out the whole thing for yourself. I think we're in the matrix for sure now, folks...
I guess if this really goes down, then it won't be so hard to persuade people on the 9/11 wargames. Sweet dreams.