By Paul McLeary with Ariel Robinson
Two takeaways from Thursday’s Pentagon press conference with Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey:
Paranoid? Carter stated emphatically that the U.S. military is not, repeat not, planning an armed takeover of the State of Texas. Some people in the southwest and the more paranoid corners of the Internet have seen the military’s upcoming multi-state training effort, dubbed Operation Jade Helm 15, as a first step toward implementing martial law. There’s all kinds of talk about training in abandoned malls and secret tunnels connecting five closed Walmart stores and other …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
