And even if the zombies were to attack, the defense department would know how to fight in order to "preserve the sacredness of human life".
The authoritative American magazine "Foreign Policy" has discovered an unclassified document called "CONOP 8888". It is a survival plan against zombies, a guide for the military who would try to isolate the threat of the undead first and subsequently.
Considering the zombies as a threat to all humanity - reads the premise of the document - the Strategic Command will have to implement all the necessary countermeasures to protect the entire human population.
CONOP 8888 is dated 30 April 2011, but should not be conceived as a joke. It is one of the many wargames hypothesized by US defense analysts. The task of these wargames is to test every possible scenario for an unlimited number of times.
In reality, what could only be seen as a joke is a crisis scenario, where the enemy could be anyone: terrorists, aliens and zombies. The Strategic Command confirmed the existence of the document, explaining that the whole scenario is covered by military secrecy and that the guide to surviving the living dead is only a creative effort for internal training purposes. Students in military academies learn the concepts of survival and development through a fictitious training scenario.
CONOP 8888 was designed to "re-establish and maintain a vigilant defense condition aimed at protecting humanity from zombies and, if necessary, unleashing a counter-offensive to eradicate the threat of the living dead to human security". The plan also sets the guidelines for "helping civil authorities maintain public order and restore basic services during and after a zombie attack".
The "worst-case scenario" foresees an attack with a high level of "transmissibility" with a multitude of zombies. The document also lists possible enemies: carnivorous zombies, vegetarians, passing through those recreated in the laboratory. Then there are the undead coming from space and those infected with a pathogen.
The goal of the American military is to always be prepared. Writing, therefore, a survival guide against zombies even if it is only a fantasy exercise, makes sense.
It is not known, but it is known that the Pentagon and the British secret services, since the 70 years, have been drawing up rough plans in case humanity was faced with an alien invasion.
The United States has developed plans that take every possible war scenario as a reference.
The chances of victory of the terrestrial forces against the alien ones, in all the scenarios imagined up to now, are equal to zero.
Franco Iacch
(in the images: frames from the Paramount films World War Z and War of the Worlds)
