Exercise Aries



Exercise Aries, officially titled as Counter-Terrorism Exercise Aries is a part of the concept of the "Astrology Series" of exercises proposed for AINPOL. The exercise is a proposed emergency preparedness exercise for counter-terrorism units and emergency units for the situation of multiple stages of a terrorist attack and was planned to occur between Christmas and New Year of 2013. The event was cancelled however due to other engagements and complications with the planning.

The selection of the nations to participate was to be chosen at random from a list of applications and would have been the first of it's kind to be performed in the union. The project was brought up again during the AINPOL bill in 2014 which would be a part of Project Hawkeye.

The exercise will involve counter-terrorism of three stages of a terrorist attack, the planning, execution and aftermath. The stages went from raiding a specific building which is base for a terrorist cell to stopping a terrorist attack before it can be committed while in transit to the target, and then the emergency response to the execution of a terrorist attack which include paramedics, counter-terrorism forces, fire-brigades and investigators as well as possible specialised unites such as paramedics for Biological or Nuclear attacks or hostage negotiators.

The objective of the exercise is to spot flaws or outstanding/impressive events during the performance of the stages to refine the counter-terrorism capabilities to AIN nations as well as to study psychological preparedness in the public to the threat of a terrorist attack. The exercise was inspired by a raise in the prediction of terrorist incidents for 2013 set by AINSI, the recent 2013 AINSummit where one of the topics brought up was Counter-Terrorism and organised crime reduction , and by Exercise Northstar V in Singapore, which was similar to the concept of this exercise.