Newly-leaked military documents reveal what the 
United States government is no longer denying: 
that elite branches of the military are currently 
preparing for “training exercises” throughout the 
U.S. southwest which simulate martial law 
scenarios.

The document reveals the training exercises are 
being conducted under the name 
“Operation Jade Helm.”

The exercises are scheduled to begin this July 
and continue for eight weeks. The operation 
will include the participation of 1,200 troops 
from the the Green Berets, Navy SEALS and 
Special Operations from the Air Force and 
Marines.

While the military acknowledges the leaked 
information is legitimate, they have termed 
the exercises “Realistic Military Training” and 
confirm that these exercises will be carried out 
in towns in Arizona, California, Colorado, 
New Mexico, Nevada, Texas as well as Utah. 
For whatever reason, the focus seems to 
be on the U.S. southwest in particular.

In the case of Texas, the military is being 
the most forthright about the exercises – 
admitting they are in the works and asking 
Texans living in close proximity to the 
operation to report anything which the 
military has characterized as “suspicious 
activity” during the exercises.

was released by The Houston Chronicle. It 
perhaps overestimates the US military belief 
that Texans have been “historically supportive” 
of military exercises like these, as they believe 
them to be for the purposes of “fight[ing] 
the enemies of the United States.”

Army Special Operation Command spokesman 
Mark Lastoria acknowledged that the exercises 
are all about 
“covert warfare tactics and martial law.”

They are to develop “emerging concepts in 
special operations warfare,” he continued.
He told a US Army publication known as Stripes 
that the “notion” that this is training for martial 
law in the United States “was proposed by a few 
individuals who are unfamiliar with how and why 
USASOC conducts training exercises.”

He adds that Americans shouldn’t be worried, 
because they are really just training to impose 
martial law on cities around the world 
“at a moment’s notice.”

“This exercise is routine training to maintain a 
high level of readiness for Army Special 
Operations Forces because they must be 
ready to support potential missions 
anywhere in the world on a moment’s notice.”

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Skeptics, however, have asked why states 
like Texas and Utah, as well as a section 
of southern California?

Whatever the reason for the U.S. military 
conducting what they admit are “martial law” 
exercises in what they also call “realistic urban 
sites,” what we know for certain is that the 
Special Forces will be on the ground in cities 
and towns across the country. Whether this 
is for the purposes of training to oppress 
civilians abroad or in the U.S., it has a lot 
of people concerned and asking questions.

(Article by Jackson Mariana and Zeidy David; 
image via Wall321; 
map via US Army Special Operations Command)