BombDr
Senior Member.
Hi everyone.
I thought it might be helpful if we could define what constitutes a 'drill' or 'exercise'.
For example, if there is a table-top exercise, does that fall under a drill? A table-top exercise being just that, a few people sat around a table with some maps and usually a blue team (good guys) and red team (bad guys) and they walk through some scenarios in which each move is countered and new 'injects' thrown in.
Then at the other end of the scale, is a defence and government-wide exercise in which the executive part of the government, military, police, hospitals and fire services are all involved?
Is it relevant if the drills are done by government or contractors?
I ask this as an Army Officer, as this week in Norfolk I am taking part in an exercise preparing an RAF Sqn for deployment to Afghanistan. As part of the exercise we have guys on the ground simulating bombing, some on military training areas and some on private ground. If a terrorist attack were to occur in the UK, would this become another factor in a conspiracy theory?
But this is for a bomber Sqn, so the Typhoon Sqns (Fighters) will probably be practising air defence this week (I don't know but it would be a fair assumption), so if an Aircraft related incident would also occur, would the activity of exercises occurring induce suspicion?
I have no idea what the Special Forces Group are up to this week, but would their drills be relevant to any future occurrence?
I'm struggling with the logic that the fact that exercises take place against terrorist related activity is itself an indication of conspiracy...?
I thought it might be helpful if we could define what constitutes a 'drill' or 'exercise'.
For example, if there is a table-top exercise, does that fall under a drill? A table-top exercise being just that, a few people sat around a table with some maps and usually a blue team (good guys) and red team (bad guys) and they walk through some scenarios in which each move is countered and new 'injects' thrown in.
Then at the other end of the scale, is a defence and government-wide exercise in which the executive part of the government, military, police, hospitals and fire services are all involved?
Is it relevant if the drills are done by government or contractors?
I ask this as an Army Officer, as this week in Norfolk I am taking part in an exercise preparing an RAF Sqn for deployment to Afghanistan. As part of the exercise we have guys on the ground simulating bombing, some on military training areas and some on private ground. If a terrorist attack were to occur in the UK, would this become another factor in a conspiracy theory?
But this is for a bomber Sqn, so the Typhoon Sqns (Fighters) will probably be practising air defence this week (I don't know but it would be a fair assumption), so if an Aircraft related incident would also occur, would the activity of exercises occurring induce suspicion?
I have no idea what the Special Forces Group are up to this week, but would their drills be relevant to any future occurrence?
I'm struggling with the logic that the fact that exercises take place against terrorist related activity is itself an indication of conspiracy...?