Yeah. This April 2011 CONOP 8888 contingency plan is hilarious:
The U.S. military has always been the one place in government with a plan, forever in preparation mode and ready to yank a blueprint off the shelf for almost any contingency. Need a response for a Russian nuclear missile launch? Check. Have to rescue a U.S. ambassador kidnapped by drug lords? Yup, check, got that covered. How about a detailed strategy for surviving a zombie apocalypse? As it turns out, check.
Incredibly, the Defense Department has a response if zombies attacked and the armed forces had to eradicate flesh-eating walkers in order to "preserve the sanctity of human life" among all the "non-zombie humans."
Yeah, pity we didn't have a plan for rescuing a US ambassador attacked by jihadis. No check, there.
But Zombies? You bet.
And remember that on September 10, 2012, I wrote that our country's leadership was so not at war that they had to conjure up a zombie attack as a reason to prepare for a disaster of some type.
If only they could think of some type of murderous, nutball threat to kill us in our homes?
But no, we needed a zombie threat to ponder what we'd do.
To be fair, there is no Council on Zombie American Relations (CZAR) to raise a stink over such plans. But that's a whole other area of non-serious response to deadly threats, no?
I fear this attitude is the underlying cause of why we didn't react with an entire European Command nearby.
