Black Tusk is The Division's most recently established nemesis, one that is still imperfectly understood. Known as a highly trained, well-equipped, and brutally efficient special operations unit, the Black Tusk appear to be seeking control of the United States federal government. But unlike Last Man Battalion (LMB) in New York City who share the same goal, the Tusk seem to have high-level backing. They have unlimited funding support, eerily precise Intel, and access to remarkably advanced and even experimental technology. Are the Black Tusk merely the military muscle for a secret cabal of benefactors? Reports coming into Division headquarters suggest that under cover of the Green Poison pandemic's spreading disruption, Black Tusk operations have already secured key strategic locations around the country: military bases, power-grid and utilities infrastructure, media-communications hubs, Internet server farms, certain financial institutions and high-tech corporate campuses, and so on.
Although its exact origins remain shrouded in mystery and what looks like deliberate misinformation, the Black Tusk group is comprised of both military and paramilitary units with a long history of working for shadowy elements of the United States government in conflict zones around the world. Black Tusk operatives have been active in everything from covert regime-change operations to on-the-ground counterinsurgency efforts in a wide array of hot spots in Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and North Africa.
The group's current configuration is clearly recruited in direct response to the bioterror attack last December. Black Tusk units and equipment began shipping back to the United States in the very early hours of the outbreak - indeed, before the full extent of the crisis was even known, which suggests the disturbing possibility of fore-knowledge. Intel intercepts since indicate a desire to "cleanse, pacify, and police the emerging New America".
Black Tusk is a faction set to be introduced to Tom Clancy's Elite Squad.
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