Ari Melber talks to Gordon Lubold about his discovery of a military plan to protect Americans from a #zombie apocalypse. @LastWord
Exclusive: The Pentagon Has a Plan to Stop the #ZombieApocalypse. Seriously.
Everything you need to know about the U.S. military’s defense strategy to protect humanity from the walking dead.
CONOP 8888 is designed to "establish and maintain a vigilant defensive condition aimed at protecting humankind from zombies," according to the plan's purpose, and, "if necessary, conduct operations that will, if directed, eradicate zombie threats to human safety." Finally, the plan provides guidance to "aid civil authorities in maintaining law and order and restoring basic services during and after a zombie attack." Foreign Policy |
- BY Gordon Lubold
- MAY 13, 2014
- gordon.lubold
Buried on the military's secret computer network is an unclassified document, obtained by Foreign Policy, called "CONOP 8888." It's a zombie survival plan, a how-to guide for military
planners trying to isolate the threat from a menu of the undead -- from chicken zombies to vegetarian zombies and even "evil magic zombies" -- and destroy them.
"This plan fulfills fictional contingency planning guidance tasking for U.S. Strategic Command to develop a comprehensive
[plan] to undertake military operations to preserve 'non-zombie' humans from the threats posed by a zombie horde," CONOP 8888's plan summary reads. "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, otherwise known as "Counter-Zombie Dominance" and dated April 30, 2011, is no laughing matter, and yet of course it is. As its authors note in the document's "disclaimer section," "this plan was not actually designed as a joke."
Military planners assigned to the U.S. Strategic Command in Omaha, Nebraska during 2009 and 2010 looked for a creative way to devise a planning document to protect citizens in the event of an attack of any kind. The officers used zombies as their muse. "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."
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This isn't the first time zombies have been used to inspire trainers or
the American public. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) built an
entire public awareness campaign for emergency preparedness around
zombies. "Get a kit, make a plan, be prepared," one CDC poster warns as a
dead-eyed woman peeks over a blanket.
Zombie Preparedness
Wonder why #Zombies, Zombie Apocalypse, and
Zombie #Preparedness continue to live or walk dead on a #CDC web site? As
it turns out what first began as a tongue in cheek campaign to engage
new audiences with preparedness messages has proven to be a very
effective platform. We continue to reach and engage a wide variety of
audiences on all hazards preparedness via Zombie Preparedness; and as
our own director, Dr. Ali Khan,
notes, "If you are generally well equipped to deal with a zombie
apocalypse you will be prepared for a hurricane, pandemic, earthquake,
or terrorist attack." So please log on, get a kit, make a plan, and be
prepared! - CDC
Source Report:
cdc.gov/phpr/zombies.htm
foreignpolicy.com/pentagon_has_a_plan_to_stop_the_zombie_apocalypse
msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/brains-pentagon-creates-plan-to-stop-zombies-256281667966
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