The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs ”” 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.
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.
“It felt a little bit like Dr. Strangelove,” one person who was at the previously undisclosed exercise told POLITICO.
Hostile nations? What about the folks in the Capitol and White House hacking away at the roots of the free market here and now?