The US military has drawn up plans to fight off an invasion of evil magic zombies and other forms of the undead. Prefaced with the disclaimer this plan was not actually designed as a joke, CONPLAN 8888 lays out a strategy to undertake military operations to preserve non-zombie humans from threats posed by a zombie horde. The 31-page document, obtained by Foreign Policy, lays out the eight types of zombie adversaries the US military may face in the event of an outbreak. They range from space zombies to weaponised zombies and even vegetarian zombies, who eat plants rather than humans and groan grains instead of brains. It dwells on the threat from evil magic zombies, those created by some form of occult experimentation in what might otherwise be referred to as evil magic.The 2011 plan also mentions chicken zombies, a genuine phenomenon where chickens are gassed with carbon monoxide and buried but inexplicably come back to life and dig themselves out. Although not strictly a joke, the document is intended as an exercise in drawing up planning documents for training purposes, rather than a real-life strategy. Its authors noted that the general public sometimes mistakenly believes that a fictional training scenario is actually a real plan so they opted for a completely-impossible scenario that could never be mistaken. The planners note that there are almost no restrictions on hostile actions that may be taken against the undead, suggesting that the traditional rules of war may not apply. CONPLAN 8888 also warns that the military must not allow Americas nuclear arsenal to be compromised by zombie forces and that strategic airfields must be defended. Stacy Miller
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 19:52:05 +0000
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