Contingency planning, anyone? #godzilla #zombie

[Arjen]

After considering posting these in Military, here goes:

Exclusive: The Pentagon Has a Plan to Stop the Zombie Apocalypse. Seriously.

"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," CONOP 8888's plan summary reads. "Because zombies pose a threat to all non-zombie human life, [Strategic Command] will be prepared to preserve the sanctity of human life and conduct operations in support of any human population -- including traditional adversaries."

Kadena Air Base: We Could Take Godzilla

Who can we trust to pulverize a 350-foot-tall prehistoric monster with atomic breath and super strength?
The U.S. Air Force, obviously.
We contacted Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, home to the Air Force’s largest combat wing, to learn how they would handle the threat...

 

[uk 75]

One of the reasons as any fool kno for the size of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force is that each ship carries a "G" manual which tells how to die gloriously fighting the big Fella!

 

[uk 75]

Sorry I forgot to illustrate what I mean courtesy of this link
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=153234

 

[GTX]

Well, at least people are planning for space alien invasions…though perhaps not the Russians.

 

[Grey Havoc]

The British authorities also have a contingency plan for a zombie apocalypse, but it assumes that any such catastrophic event will originate in Scotland:

(IMAGE CREDIT: Shades of Caruso blog)

 

[Triton]

Well, at least people are planning for space alien invasions…though perhaps not the Russians.

I'll sleep better tonight knowing that the Pentagon has a contingency plan for ETI invasions.

 

[CJGibson]

The British authorities also have a contingency plan for a zombie apocalypse, but it assumes that any such catastrophic event will originate in Scotland:

(IMAGE CREDIT: Shades of Caruso blog)

From the Buckfast Triangle I presume?

 

[Orionblamblam]

While the Godzilla plans are obviously and admittedly silly, planning for zombies is actually a good idea. Not because a zombie outbreak is actually possible, but because:
A) Good strategic planning for out-of-the-box situations (such as plans for an invasion of Canada or a war against the British Empire, etc.) is always good exercise. Wargaming the same old war is not so useful after a while.
B) While classic zombies are basically impossible, there are epidemics that *could* theoretically happen that would resemble a zombie apocalypse. Especially when you throw in just how easy it will soon be for some crackpot or misanthropist or bored teenager to whip up a batch of genetically engineered super-ick with "programmed" symptoms. Say, it drives the sick bugnuts, gives them the urge to do things that will spread the plague. Such an epidemic breaks out, "shoot 'em in the head" might well be the order of the day.

 

[J.A.W.]

Well now, there is a candidate for a bit of 'evil scientist'-type tweaking - a zombificating brain parasite..

Toxoplasmosis.. just watch out for those 'cat people'..

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/

 

[Grey Havoc]

A little too late for Halloween, but...

http://news.yahoo.com/japans-smartphone-zombies-wreak-havoc-streets-041429445.html;_ylt=AwrSyCS8nWNUWAcAh7vQtDMD

 

[Grey Havoc]

Pig brains partially revived four hours after death (BBC)

Oh dear...

 

[uk 75]

This thread was long before Covid and recent talk of a citizen army in Britain.
Ketamine using knife wielding teenagers assisting boatloads of migrants and you have a perfect story for The Sun or The Daily Mail.