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Preparing for last war Most of the kinds of tactical training that militia units across the country have been doing have been focused on the tactical situations found in conventional or counterinsurgency warfare. And most of the alert systems that have been set up depend on telephone communications. While such exercises have some merit, they neglect the kinds of scenarios that we are more likely to face. This document describes in a general way a different kind of exercise designed to prepare militiamen for more likely scenarios, emphasizing reconnaissance, intelligence, and insurgency methods. We call this kind of exercise WitWeb because it sets up a webwork of witnesses.