ECON Unified Quest 2011- Army Exercises Preparing Domestic Response To FRN$ Collapse (MP3)

Dozdoats

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Audio only at this point, I'll post more if I can find it.

Plus 'gold standard' discussion...

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http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2010/11/9_Jim_Rickards.html

Jim Rickards Interview, Part II
Tuesday, 9 Nov 2010

Jim Rickards: Senior Managing Director for Market Intelligence at Omnis, Inc. - Jim has been a direct participant in many of the most significant financial events over the past 30 years including the 1981 release of hostages from Iran and was also the principal negotiator for the government sponsored bailout of LTCM. His clients include private investment funds, investment banks and government directorates in national security and defense. He is an advisor to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and Support Group of the Director of National Intelligence and recently testified before Congress on the causes of the financial crisis. Follow Jim Rickards on Twitter at twitter.com/JamesGRickards
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Jim Rickards



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Biography of James G. Rickards

James G. Rickards is a writer, lawyer and economist with over 30 years experience in global capital markets. He is Senior Managing Director at Omnis, Inc., a consulting firm in McLean, VA and is the leading practitioner at the intersection of global capital markets and national security. His advice to clients from 2002 to 2006 included early warning of impending financial collapse, the rise of sovereign wealth funds, the decline of the dollar and the sharp rise in gold prices years in advance of these events. He has held senior executive positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management and Caxton Associates. In 1998, he was the principal negotiator of the rescue of LTCM sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His clients include private investment funds, investment banks and government directorates in national security and defense. He is the national security columnist for The Daily Caller, www.dailycaller.com, has been the interviewed in The Wall Street Journal, has appeared regularly on CNBC's Squawk Box, as well as Fox, CNN, C-SPAN and NPR and is an Op-Ed contributor to the New York Times and the Washington Post. Mr. Rickards is a visiting lecturer at the Kellogg School and the School of Advanced International Studies, has delivered papers on econophysics at the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory and has written articles on cognitive diversity, network science and risk management. He is an advisor to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) Support Group of the Director of National Intelligence and recently testified before Congress on the causes of the financial crisis. Mr. Rickards holds an LL.M. (Taxation) from the New York University School of Law; a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; an M.A. in international economics from the School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, and a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University. Follow Mr. Rickards at twitter.com/JamesGRickards.

Biography from Omnisinc.com
James G. Rickards: Senior Managing Director for Market Intelligence

James G. Rickards is Senior Managing Director for Market Intelligence at Omnis, Inc. and co-head of the firm’s practice in Threat Finance & Market Intelligence. He is also a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Rickards is a seasoned counselor, investment banker and risk manager with over thirty years experience in capital markets including portfolio management, risk management, product structure, corporate finance, regulation and operations.
Mr. Rickards’s career prior to Omnis spans an over 30-year period during which he was a first hand participant in the formation and growth of globalized capital markets and complex derivative trading strategies. He has held senior executive positions at “sell side” firms (Citibank and RBS Greenwich Capital Markets) and “buy side” firms (Long-Term Capital Management and Caxton Associates) as well as technology firms (OptiMark). Mr. Rickards has been a direct participant in many of the most significant financial events over the past 30 years including the 1981 release of US hostages in Iran, the 1987 Stock Market Crash, the 1990 collapse of Drexel, and the LTCM financial crisis of 1998 in which Mr. Rickards was the principal negotiator of the government-sponsored rescue. He has been involved in the formation and successful launch of several hedge funds and fund-of-funds. His advisory clients have included private investment funds, investment banks and government directorates. Since 2001, Mr. Rickards has applied his financial expertise to a variety of tasks for the benefit of the US national security community and the Department of Defense.
Mr. Rickards is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey and various Federal Courts and has held all major financial industry licenses including Series 3, Series 7, Series 24, Series 30 and Series 63. He has been a frequent speaker at conferences sponsored by bar associations and industry groups in the fields of derivatives and hedge funds and is active in the International Bar Association. He has been the interviewed in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, Politico and on CNBC’s Squawk Box, as well as Fox, CNN, NPR and C-SPAN and is an OpEd contributor to the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Mr. Rickards is a graduate school visiting lecturer in finance at Northwestern University and the School of Advanced International Studies. He has recently delivered papers on econophysics at the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mr. Rickards has published numerous articles in the fields of cognitive diversity, network science and risk management. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Shariah Capital, Inc., a firm specializing in Islamic finance and is also a member of the International Business Practices Advisory Panel to the CFIUS Support Group of the Director of National Intelligence.
Mr. Rickards holds an LL.M. (Taxation) from the New York University School of Law; a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; an M.A. in international economics from the School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC; and a B.A. degree with honors from the School of Arts & Sciences of The Johns Hopkins University.
 

Dozdoats

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What is Unified Quest?

Unified Quest is the Army’s annual Title 10 Future Study Program comprised of a
series of wargames, seminar, workshops and conferences. It is the Army
Chief of Staff’s primary mechanism to explore enduring challenges and the
conduct of operations in a future operational environment.

Approach to Unified Quest
Unified Quest conducts broad studies of future joint, interagency, intergovernmental
and multinational (JIIM) operations to isolate and frame issues vital to future force
development in format that is suitable for integration into concepts and capability
development. Unified Quest will also examine and develop interim solution strategies for enduring operational and generating force Army Warfighting Challenges.

Unified Quest Design Input

Guidance from the Chief of Staff of the Army & Commanding General TRADOC

Army Warfighting Challenges and Integrated Learning Plans

Army Concept Framework and other concept to capability documents

Current operations and Future operational environment

Science and Technology

Close synchronization with Sister Services, OSD and other wargame efforts

Army, Joint and service concepts and emerging doctrine

Emerging civilian agency planning and execution processes
The Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC), at Fort Monroe, VA, is the Army's leader in the identification, design, development, and synchronization of capabilities into the Army current Modular Force and the future Modular Force, bringing together all the Army agencies as well as Joint, Multinational and other DoD agencies to manage rapid change. The ARCIC supports TRADOC in providing adaptive Soldiers, leaders and units by contributing to the development of doctrine, TTPs, and the collective training experience. Our measure of success is a campaign quality Army with joint and expeditionary capabilities. We will know we are achieving our goals when Soldiers, leaders, and units supported by integrated DOTMLPF solutions provide the landpower capabilities required by the Joint Force Commander - for today and for the future.

ARCIC’s Future Warfare Division conducts broad studies of the future operational environment, isolating and framing issues vital to force development for the Army Chief of Staff and the Commanding General, TRADOC, in a format suitable for integration into concept and capability development programs, and to develop solution strategies for operational problems having policy and strategy implications affecting future force development.
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https://unifiedquest.army.mil/events.html

UQ11 Calendar of Events
Planning Conference ACF Leader Development Implications Seminar Alternative Futures Symposium Cyber Electromagnetic Contest Seminar Profession of Arms Seminar Combined Arms Maneuver & Wide Area Security Ops Wargame HLO Wargame Senior Leader Seminar

Planning Conference: 15 July 2010 Fort Monroe, VA

Leader Development Seminar: 14-17 September 2010 McLean, VA

Alternative Futures Symposium: 2 - 4 November 2010 McLean, VA

Cyber Electromagnetic Contest Seminar: 7 - 10 December 2010 McLean, VA

Profession of Arms Seminar: 10- 14 January 2011, McLean, VA

Combined Arms Maneuver & Wide Area Security Ops Wargame: 7-11 February 2011 McLean, VA

Homeland Operations Wargame: 22-25 March 2011 Carlisle Barracks, PA

Senior Leader Seminar: 19 April 2011 RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA
 

Mzkitty

I give up.
This is a tad old, but says basically the same thing:

http://loveforlife.com.au/content/09/01/03/us-military-preparing-domestic-disturbances

U.S. Military Preparing For Domestic Disturbances
Sat, 01/03/2009 - 23:06 — Arthur Cristian


Note: It behooves you to read this entire article. The last paragraph [ ] is alarming. They seem to "know" what's coming.

U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances
By: Jim Meyers
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:14 PM

A new report from the U.S. Army War College discusses the use of American troops to quell civil unrest brought about by a worsening economic crisis.

The report from the War College's Strategic Studies Institute warns that the U.S. military must prepare for a "violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States" that could be provoked by "unforeseen economic collapse" or "loss of functioning political and legal order."

Entitled "Known Unknowns: Unconventional 'Strategic Shocks' in Defense Strategy Development," the report was produced by Nathan Freier, a recently retired Army lieutenant colonel who is a professor at the college — the Army's main training institute for prospective senior officers.

He writes: "To the extent events like this involve organized violence against local, state, and national authorities and exceed the capacity of the former two to restore public order and protect vulnerable populations, DoD [Department of Defense] would be required to fill the gap."

Freier continues: "Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order … An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home."

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned last week of riots and unrest in global markets if the ongoing financial crisis is not addressed and lower-income households are beset with credit constraints and rising unemployment, the Phoenix Business Journal reported.

Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Rep. Brad Sherman of California disclosed that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson discussed a worst-case scenario as he pushed the Wall Street bailout in September, and said that scenario might even require a declaration of martial law.

The Army College report states: "DoD might be forced by circumstances to put its broad resources at the disposal of civil authorities to contain and reverse violent threats to domestic tranquility. Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States.

"Further, DoD would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance."

He concludes this section of the report by observing: "DoD is already challenged by stabilization abroad. Imagine the challenges associated with doing so on a massive scale at home."

As Newsmax reported earlier, the Defense Department has made plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to emergencies.

The 130-year-old Posse Comitatus Act restricts the military's role in domestic law enforcement. But a 1994 Defense Department Directive allows military commanders to take emergency actions in domestic situations to save lives, prevent suffering or mitigate great property damage, according to the Business Journal.

[And Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the U.S. military operations to liberate Iraq, said in a 2003 interview that if the U.S. is attacked with a weapon of mass destruction, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.]

© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Link to this article: http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/military_domestic_use/2008/12/23/164765... and here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11483

Photo taken from here: http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/us-military-preparing-for-...

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