CONOP 8888: The Penatagon's Zombie Defense Plan

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Perknose

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You can't make this stuff up!

The Defense Department actually has a plan in place in case zombies invade the earth and the military has to destroy them to “preserve the sanctity of human life.” In a secret military computer network, a document called CONOP 8888 provides a how-to defense against the undead. “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,” the summary says.

Should proud, slow-moving Zombie-Americans be offended by this? ():)
 

techs

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Just like the military planning for the last war against slow moving zombies.
 

IronWing

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Given the average age of the US House is 57 and the average age of the Senate is 63 a zombie attack from within seems most likely.
 

ultimatebob

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It makes sense to me. A zombie apocalypse is a pretty much a worse case scenario. If they can handle that drill, they're ready for when the Canadians and Mexicans invade.
 

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‘non-zombie’ humans are humans that have not been infected or compromised by a pathogen and/or microbe, resulting is said zombie-ness.

These zombies could be just piles of dying humans, the slow walking creeps we've known,.. or the enraged maniacs from 28 Days.

Eitherway, its not a bad idea to anticipate masses of human beings being dangerous and unreasonable/responsive to traditional methods; talk to them, threaten them, wound them, kill - and they back off. The ideal of mindless humans being unphased by pain and fear could be real.
 

Perknose

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You can't make this stuff up!
Sure you can. And some suckers are guaranteed to believe it.

You realize this is genuine, don't you? It is not made up.

From the very well respected Foreign Policy:

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.

^^^ You may have to pay to read it.

The American military regularly drafts genuine contingency plans for all sorts of unlikely scenarios. Case in point:

War Plan Red was developed by the United States Army following the 1927 Geneva Naval Conference and approved in May 1930 by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of Navy and updated in 1934–35. In 1939 on the outbreak of World War II and Britain's war against Nazi Germany, a decision was taken that no further planning was required but that the plan be retained.[3] War Plan Red was not declassified until 1974.

The war plan outlined those actions that would be necessary to initiate war between Britain and the United States. The plan suggested that the British would initially have the upper hand by virtue of the strength of the Royal Navy. The plan further assumed that Britain would probably use its Dominion in Canada as a springboard from which to initiate a retaliatory invasion of the United States. The assumption was taken that at first Britain would fight a defensive battle against invading American forces, but that the US would eventually defeat the British by blockading the United Kingdom and economically isolating it.[4]
 
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