The Pentagon has created a plan for what to do in the zombie apocalypse. Well leave it up to you whether you now feel safer, or a whole lot less safe. Not surprisingly, this isnt something the US military establishment is keen to talk about, but Foreign Policy Magazine dug up the document, which helpfully tells us, Because zombies pose a threat to all non-zombie human life, [Strategic Command] will be prepared to preserve the sanctity of human life and conduct operations in support of any human population -- including traditional adversaries. CONOP 8888, as the document is known, is dated April 30, 2011, not 29 days earlier (or 28 days later for that matter). The authors are keen to assure us the document is not a joke, but nor is it entirely serious, saying, “The hyperbole involved in writing a zombie survival plan actually provided a very useful and effective training tool.” Planners ... realized that training examples for plans must accommodate the political fallout that occurs if the general public mistakenly believes that a fictional training scenario is actually a real plan, the authors wrote, adding: Rather than risk such an outcome by teaching our augmentees using the fictional Tunisia or Nigeria scenarios used at [Joint Combined Warfighting School], we elected to use a completely-impossible scenario that could never be mistaken for a real plan. Its encouraging that the people capable of creating a real apocalypse havent made the grave mistake of moving from believing in WMD to Zombies of Mass Destruction. Sadly, we think they may be misjudging just what people will believe. Read more at iflscience/health-and-medicine/pentagon-has-zombie-apocalypse-emergency-plan#yhWp6Tpsa0MiZAgS.99
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:24:57 +0000
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