The U.S. Joint Forces Command ends its massive domestic wargames exercise with international forces today. JFCOM’s people have been blogging updates to their website (excerpt, below). Nongovernmental organizations, such as World Cares — which, in an emergency, will mobilize millions of “volunteers” — are also participating. — mb

News From USJFCOM: Liveblogging: Noble Resolve 08
Situated in the middle of all of the action (and over 100 computer screens), today I should be able to provide an insider’s look at what’s going on here, especially when it comes to who’s communicating with who, how they’re communicating and ultimately, what information is shared during a crisis.

To date, the campaign has examined issues involving the handling mass population movements during a crisis, improving maritime domain awareness, and several other critical issues that may occur during a domestic crisis.

PS. Noble Resolve, according to the DoD, “includes representatives from Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Morocco, Portugal, South Korea, Romania, Spain and Sweden, as well as NATO Allied Command Transformation.”