With all due respect, exercises are fine, but did they allow for having to blast local, innocent people out of the way, I’m not knocking this in times of a national emergency, rest assured I’m not a ‘chain yourself to the fence type’, presumably it would be the case in such a scenario. Is this all classified, top secret stuff that we won’t know about for 50 years, if at all.
I can’t believe that any exercise would completely allow for the unexpected, or would they.
Imagine trying to get a convoy past Fred Dibnah, out for a jaunt in his rather large and heavy steam roller, ‘Mmm’, removing cap and scratching head, ‘I don’t reckon much to them thur transporters’, producing piece of paper and redesigning the things in front of horrified troops, ‘Ave you got any watter ortherwise t’ b####r will blow a fusible plug and you’ll do nowt to try and save t’ world, for what it’s worth. How much do you Yanks know about reciprocating, compound beam engines, mmmmm, I thought as much, now let me do a deemonsturation’.
Don’t you just miss the bloke, bless him.