U.S. Military plan to defeat Zombies. Should we be concerned?

[Savannahmann]

When students go to school, they are given assignments. Marketing students are taught to sell imaginary devices called Widgets. Political Science students are given the assignment to manage the imaginary candidate John Doe in an imaginary election. Business Students have managed the fictional company Acme.

So students of military plans are given an assignment to defend against Zombies by the US Military. NOTE: I am a subscriber to Foreign Policy, and was able to read the entire article. If you can't then take my word for it, the article is funny and head shakingly frustrating. The plan itself is on Scribed.

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."

Navy Capt. Pamela Kunze, a spokeswoman for Strategic Command, acknowledged the document exists on a "secure Internet site" but took pains to explain that the zombie survival guide is only a creative endeavor for training purposes. "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," she wrote in an email. "This document is not a U.S. Strategic Command plan."

So it's a training tool, and in that training tool, we teach people how to plan for similar events to a Zombie Apocalypse.

Now, here is the funny thing. The CDC has a how to survive the Zombies web page up.

Now, before you all decide I'm just wasting time or falling for some joke just read a little more.

Zombie Apocalypse is one of those code words that people use. During the 1980's, the militia used the term New World Order to describe their opposition to and preparations for fighting the Government in a Civil War. During the 1990's, the same groups used the Socialist Government as the big bad wolf that they had to fight. After Oklahoma City, that became a political hot potato and their membership fell. No one wanted to be associated with Tim McVeigh. In the early 21st Century, it became the AQ forces of evil, and then Islamic hatred started to fall under the category of hate crime.

Now, the term Zombie Apocalypse is used in lieu of all those terms. This is the catch phrase that covers race wars, class wars, civil war, overthrowing whatever Government authority is currently chafing the nuts. You name it, and it falls under Zombie Apocalypse. The breakdown of civilized society after a disaster, natural or man made, is covered.

These preppers, formally called survivalists, number in the millions. They have and continue to stockpile millions of rounds of ammunition and hundreds of thousands of guns. They have food, seeds for planting survival gardens, water and other survival materials that they are stockpiling for the day. Some have specific events planned, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, riots and all of that. But they all have guns out the wazoo, and food, and especially lots of ammunition.

All I'm saying is that it would be improbable that the US Government did not know that Zombie Apocalypse was a term used to describe among other things, civil war. Especially when the war would be an insurgency, and the plan to deal with the "Zombies" is counter insurgency in nature.