Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20140817054029/@comment-14909251-20140819194611

Here is what Roman says exactly:

Now, many of your brothers have already moved down to our new operation in the southeast. If you'd rather stay within the city, that's fine... But if you're truly ready to fight for what you believe in, this is the arsenal I can provide you.

At this point he was talking to the crowd generally, not just the new recruits. From the way he says it, the operation is presumably connected to the weapons he is providing them and has something to do with Cinder's plan. He associates staying within the city with being safe and avoiding the fight. I presume the southeastern operation is a name for some staging area where the White Fang are preparing whatever assault is in the works. The new recruits may not know of it and are thus a bit left out, but presumably those who have been there a while are aware of something being prepared in the southeast. No doubt those new recruits were all going to be informed of what the operation in the southeast is after being initiated.