Only a few days after it was revealed that the Pentagon has devised a “battle plan” in the event of zombie outbreak – yes, a zombie outbreak – details of the plan of action have been scrutinized in greater detail.
Believe it or not, the plan was not designed as a joke.
“CONOP 888,” otherwise known as “Counter-Zombie Dominance,” was written in 2011 as part of a training exercise.
In an unclassified document titled “CONOP 8888,” officials from U.S. Strategic Command used the specter of a planet-wide attack by the walking dead as a training template for how to plan for real-life, large-scale operations, emergencies and catastrophes, CNN reported on Friday.
The summary of the report says: “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.”
A spokesperson from the Pentagon said there was a reasonable explanation for the elaborate plan.
“The document is identified as a training tool used in an in-house training exercise where students learn about the basic concepts of military plans and order development through a fictional training scenario,” Navy Capt. Pamela Kunze, a spokeswoman for U.S. Strategic Command, told CNN…. see more
source: alarabiya
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