Has anyone thought of this?

Do we conduct federal war games and table-tops on the most potential societal likelihoods regarding current events?  Do we even remotely attempt to apply NIMS-SEMS?

These days, I fear we no longer do so.  I fear the federal government can’t even spell NIMS-SEMS.

From the US Naval Institute, at USNI.org:

SOUTHCOM Commander: Ebola Outbreak in Central America Could Cause Mass Migration to U.S.

by Sam LeGrone

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The head of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) warned an Ebola outbreak in Central America or the Caribbean could trigger a mass migration to the U.S. of people fleeing the disease and implied established Central American illegal trafficking networks could introduce the infected into the U.S., during remarks at a Tuesday panel on security issues in the Western Hemisphere at the National Defense University.

“If it comes to the Western Hemisphere, the countries that we’re talking about have almost no ability to deal with it — particularly in Haiti and Central America,” SOUTHCOM Commander, Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, said in response to a question of his near term concerns in the region.

“It will make the 68,000 unaccompanied minors look like a small problem.”

The short answer is: NO.  Our federal government seems to have little interest in protecting itself or its people from external invaders.  Our USSS seems to be curiously negligent in protecting POTUS, on just one angle.

An Ebola outbreak could encourage the poor and increasingly desperate populations in Central American countries — like Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador — to leave in droves.

“I think you’ve seen this so many times in the past, when in doubt, take off,” he said.

This current regime doesn’t conduct war games, it doesn’t conduct serious NIMS-SEMS exercises or strategies nor can it even spell NIMS-SEMS.

Clearly, a partisan political attack:

Though an ocean away from Ebola hotspots in Africa, a growing numbers of West Africans are using the illicit trafficking routes through Central America to enter the U.S. illegally and could introduce the disease in the U.S. 

Bimbos behind keyboards.

The realities of a potential outbreak caused Kelly to ask his staff to start thinking about the affects to the SOUTHCOM area of operations (AO) and pay attention to the response of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).

The U.S. has sent 4,000 troops to West Africa to assist countries in dealing with the Ebola outbreaks in the region.

And there you go.  Forecasting.  War gaming.  Even logic.

Where has that gone?

BZ

P.S.

Interesting article here.