people don’t understand that the DOD has had decades to create op plans for damned near every potential situation. so fuck yeah idaho, but also, florida or oklahoma rebelling, vermont being taken over by genetically modified bears, or even people in Nevada waking up and suddenly realizing they live in a godforsaken hell hole. There’s a plan for them all.
They literally were at some point hiring non fiction writers to come up with scenarios. The DOD has ‘legitimate’ ‘playbooks’ for alien invasions, wakanda’s and even super people. There is surely mostly grounded in reality scenarios but the out there ones are the most fun to consider is being taken seriously. I like the genetically engineered bears one haha
Do they also have a plan in case a portal opens in Ohio and fantasy invaders come from within and start killing civilians and pillaging before we counterattack and spread freedom and democracy across the magical empire?
sounds like a chapter from Dungeon Crawler Carl. And no, we’re not prepared for that at all, like Clarke said, the technological disparity is so great, it may as well be magic.
They make the plan as a training exercise, not something they actually think will happen, but if they ask a new planner to plan a war with China he’s probably thought a lot about it and you learn more about what plans he’s read than what unique and out of the box thinking he has, if you ask him to make plans for zombie outbreak or idaho rebelling or an alien invasion in Montana you get unique answers, so they have thousands of plans that no one ever reads again but it’s less competence and more " 1999 q4 training exercise"
people don’t understand that the DOD has had decades to create op plans for damned near every potential situation. so fuck yeah idaho, but also, florida or oklahoma rebelling, vermont being taken over by genetically modified bears, or even people in Nevada waking up and suddenly realizing they live in a godforsaken hell hole. There’s a plan for them all.
They literally were at some point hiring non fiction writers to come up with scenarios. The DOD has ‘legitimate’ ‘playbooks’ for alien invasions, wakanda’s and even super people. There is surely mostly grounded in reality scenarios but the out there ones are the most fun to consider is being taken seriously. I like the genetically engineered bears one haha
The issue is that they stop sucking and cause Texas to fall into the Gulf of Mexico.
Do they also have a plan in case a portal opens in Ohio and fantasy invaders come from within and start killing civilians and pillaging before we counterattack and spread freedom and democracy across the magical empire?
sounds like a chapter from Dungeon Crawler Carl. And no, we’re not prepared for that at all, like Clarke said, the technological disparity is so great, it may as well be magic.
I think you’re vastly overestimating the competence of the people that have been working for the DOD all those decades
They make the plan as a training exercise, not something they actually think will happen, but if they ask a new planner to plan a war with China he’s probably thought a lot about it and you learn more about what plans he’s read than what unique and out of the box thinking he has, if you ask him to make plans for zombie outbreak or idaho rebelling or an alien invasion in Montana you get unique answers, so they have thousands of plans that no one ever reads again but it’s less competence and more " 1999 q4 training exercise"