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This report details the findings of the February 27, 2025 tabletop exercise (TTX), “What Happens if Trump Bombs Mexico?,” organized by the Win Without War Education Fund (WWWEF), held at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., and jointly developed and facilitated with Monks Hood Media, LLC. This “anti-wargame” gathered American and Mexican experts from government, think tanks, academia, and labor in front of an audience of Congressional staff to illuminate the far-reaching consequences of the Trump administration’s threats to use military action against cartels in Mexico.
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The TTX employed a turn-based structure, actively facilitated by the Control Cell and designed to drive frequent decisions and judgements from players to achieve the following objectives…
The TTX involved nine players from the United States and Mexico with backgrounds in government, academia, and labor, including:
Department of Defense (former)
Office of the United States Trade Representative (former)
Department of State (former)
Central Intelligence Agency (former)
Mexico’s Center for Investigation and National Security (former)
U.S. Labor Organizing
Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
The Institute for Policy Studies