{"id":10317,"date":"2009-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"pentagon-preps-for-economic-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/pentagon-preps-for-economic-warfare.html","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon preps for economic warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MLive.com &#8211; The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs &mdash; but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis. <br \/>          <a name=\"more\"><\/a><br \/> The two-day event near Ft. Meade, Maryland, had all the earmarks of a regular war game. Participants sat along a V-shaped set of desks beneath an enormous wall of video monitors displaying economic data, according to the accounts of three participants. <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;It felt a little bit like Dr. Strangelove,&rdquo; one person who was at the previously undisclosed exercise told POLITICO. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/us-politics\/index.ssf\/2009\/04\/pentagon_preps_for_economic_wa.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/us-politics\/index.ssf\/2009\/04\/pentagon_preps_for_economic_wa.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/us-politics\/index.ssf\/2009\/04\/pentagon_preps_for_economic_wa.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLive.com &#8211; The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs &mdash; but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10113,10111,1926,10104,10109,10110,4602,3328,10102,10103,4636,10107,10114,5289,10112,10105,10106,10108],"class_list":["post-10317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bombs","tag-bullets","tag-desks","tag-dr-strangelove","tag-earmarks","tag-economic-data","tag-economy","tag-exercise","tag-ft-meade-maryland","tag-game-participants","tag-global-financial-crisis","tag-hostile-nations","tag-little-bit","tag-mdash","tag-pentagon","tag-three-participants","tag-video-monitors","tag-war-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}