Many of the participating nations want to join NATO, he said, which requires member nations to offer assistance when deemed necessary. Talaibek Oussou-baliev hoped for one other benefit. Perhaps, if we have one idea, if we have one aim, then maybe we will not have any more wars. Playing the Enemy THE small island of Aragon is part Hollywood and part Bosnia-Herzegovina. Actors roam the streets, demanding food, water and safe passage while snipers slink around shooting soldiers and civilians at will.
Car bombs explode at the most inopportune times.
NATO and Partnership for Peace soldiers traveled to Aragon, the fictional island at Fort Polk, La.'s Joint Readiness Training Center, to learn about keeping the peace in a war-torn country. The role-players who inhabit Aragon make the training as realistic as possible. They can be helpful, mean, innocent or downright devilish. Sometimes their demeanor depends on the part they're told to play. Sometimes, it depends on how they are treated by the soldiers involved in the exercise.