People's Caravan Against War Drills
Struggle for sovereignty against imperialist wars and war preparations
About the campaign
Military exercises are "structured, large-scale training operations conducted by armed forces to simulate combat conditions, test strategic readiness, and maintain tactical proficiency". They function as an instrument by the U.S. to escalate tensions between its rivals towards wars and also to subjugate neo-colonies and colonies to U.S. war agendas.
The people directly impacted by the exercises and war build-up are essentially already living in conditions of war. On the beaches, neighborhoods, and seas where people fish, care for their families and try to sustain their livelihood, U.S. military exercises are violent disruptions and attacks on their daily lives. Being blockaded in their home for weeks, denied access to fishing and livelihood, living with the environmental contamination from missile and bombings tests, and massive state budgets drained into exercises and war spending deprive countries of welfare services.
These so-called exercises are in reality preparations for war under the U.S. doctrine of "full spectrum dominance", carried out through Trump's "Peace through Strength" doctrine. The concept of "full spectrum dominance" was formally articulated by the U.S. Department of Defense in its "Joint Vision 2020" blueprint, defining it as the ability of U.S. forces, operating alone or with allies, "to defeat any adversary and control any situation across the range of military operations". This doctrine extends to connect all the parts of the US military with all the military components of its allied militaries (like those of the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Australia etc) to make their systems more and more "interoperable". This comes from a depraved history of subjugating entire national militaries like the Philippines and Korea as expansions of the U.S. command and control. Now, in order to prepare for war in a "multipolar world", the U.S. is escalating its regime of war games with more countries, greater scale and with more frequency to race in this direction of preparation for a World War III scenario.
The people directly impacted by the exercises and war build-up are essentially already living in conditions of war. On the beaches, neighborhoods, and seas where people fish, care for their families and try to sustain their livelihood, U.S. military exercises are violent disruptions and attacks on their daily lives. Being blockaded in their home for weeks, denied access to fishing and livelihood, living with the environmental contamination from missile and bombings tests, and massive state budgets drained into exercises and war spending deprive countries of welfare services.
These so-called exercises are in reality preparations for war under the U.S. doctrine of "full spectrum dominance", carried out through Trump's "Peace through Strength" doctrine. The concept of "full spectrum dominance" was formally articulated by the U.S. Department of Defense in its "Joint Vision 2020" blueprint, defining it as the ability of U.S. forces, operating alone or with allies, "to defeat any adversary and control any situation across the range of military operations". This doctrine extends to connect all the parts of the US military with all the military components of its allied militaries (like those of the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Australia etc) to make their systems more and more "interoperable". This comes from a depraved history of subjugating entire national militaries like the Philippines and Korea as expansions of the U.S. command and control. Now, in order to prepare for war in a "multipolar world", the U.S. is escalating its regime of war games with more countries, greater scale and with more frequency to race in this direction of preparation for a World War III scenario.
Ultimately, these exercises have evolved from mere preparedness drills into symbols and mechanisms of a renewed great-power competition, where the projection of hard power seeks to define spheres of influence and re-divide the imperialist control over trade routes, resources and markets, with the people themselves caught in the crosshairs.
This means that resisting war exercises are a key component to resisting the wars. Because the people are more powerful than their puppet or imperialist governments and the corporations that profit from war, it is through the coordinated peoples resistance in each country against military exercises and war build up that we will fight to stop these imperialist war games!
This concept lays out a plan for a coordinated, mobile and decentralized campaign against U.S.-led military exercises, to rally the peoples resistance as the conditions of rivalry between U.S. and its adversaries and war preparations escalate.
This means that resisting war exercises are a key component to resisting the wars. Because the people are more powerful than their puppet or imperialist governments and the corporations that profit from war, it is through the coordinated peoples resistance in each country against military exercises and war build up that we will fight to stop these imperialist war games!
This concept lays out a plan for a coordinated, mobile and decentralized campaign against U.S.-led military exercises, to rally the peoples resistance as the conditions of rivalry between U.S. and its adversaries and war preparations escalate.
National Democratic Groups in the Philippines demand end of imperialist war (Photo: Bayan)
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Activists mobilize in Los Angeles against Freedom Shield (Photo: Nodutdol)
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Current Caravan Stop- Super Garuda Shield, Indonesia
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Resources
Endorse the People's caravan against war drills
Join the Resist U.S.-Led War Movement in our People’s Caravan against war drills. Raise the level of solidarity and fight U.S. war preparations by taking direct action against the U.S. military exercises, staging rallies and demonstrations to show mass opposition, and hosting educational events and webinars to share strategies and tactics across our movement.
Endorsing organizations commit to any or all of the following:
Endorse: https://tinyurl.com/endorsepeoplescaravan
Endorsing organizations commit to any or all of the following:
- organize actions against military exercises
- mobilize community to take action against war drills
- contribute information on exercises and resistance to campaign materials
- attend campaign meetings
- connect your local campaigns or targets to the People's Caravan
- donate funds or other resources
- write op-eds and/or contact the media to cover stories about people’s opposition to U.S. war drills
- register your mobilizations or actions on the shared website
- share educational materials
- share your experiences and perspective on war games in your country or that your country participates in
- promote the campaign in your events, in media or on social media
- add organization’s logo to campaign materials
Endorse: https://tinyurl.com/endorsepeoplescaravan
Webinar recordings: No war! No Military Build up! U.S. Out Now!
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This webinar series focuses on fighting against "preparations for war" in Asia, the Pacific and Latin America, hearing from various countries about the impact of war preparations including war games, military staging, bases expansion, mass sexual violence, on neo-colonies of the U.S. and independence struggles.
The whole world is being dragged into an unprecedented level of militarization, due to the crisis of imperialism. Join us for an exchange between people on the front lines of today's escalating US military expansion and hyper militarization - focusing on Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. We will highlight grassroots resistance to U.S. wars today, on how the people in the global south are being affected today by major rivalry and build up to war between the U.S. and China. The goal is to strengthen solidarity among the different fights and lay the basis for joint campaigns against U.S. war build up, exercises and bases and to support "U.S. Out" campaigns. Each country has particular conditions and each plays a particular role in the U.S. war strategy, so each people, in fighting against the U.S. military towards genuine sovereignty and just peace, also has a particular role to play. |
Reports, Press, and analysis
Cancel Balikatan and All War Exercises in Asia and the Pacific! U.S. Troops out of Asia and the Pacific
By Resist US-led War Campaign Asia Pacific Read more: https://www.resistusledwarmovement.com/balikatan-resistasiapacific.html 
Cancel RIMPAC 2026
By Seiji Yamada, Arcelita Imasa, and Richard Rothschiller, members of the Hawaii Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines The biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) war games, the largest naval exercise in the world, is scheduled to take place in the ocean around, the air above, and on the ‘āina of Ka Pae‘aina O Ka Moananui (as Kekuni Blaisdell taught us to call Hawai‘i) from June 24 to July 31, 2026. The U.S. Pacific Fleet announces that “a multinational force of approximately 40 surface ships, 5 submarines, 140 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel” will descend on Ka Pae‘aina. [1] In light of recent global developments, now, more than ever, we must oppose RIMPAC. Read more https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/25/cancel-rimpac-2026/ |
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