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Zombies are a physical impossibility, so nobody sensible worries about zombie attacks.

> so nobody sensible worries about zombie attacks

As an interesting aside to this comment: https://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombie/index.htm

I guess the CDC does this in good faith but for military, zombie scenarios are a way to prepare for civilian uprisings without explicitly naming it. Easier to make a "zombie plague preparedness" exercise than a "Trump supporters take arms when their president is impeached".

Zombies are a local inside enemy that allow training on the domestic territory. Hard to name a fictional enemy that would not make headlines otherwise.

It’s not necessarily that, it can also be tacitly referring to external civilian influxes, such as mass migration events. Either way, it’s a grim business that few people seem to grasp the full import of.

Would a generic "terrorists" label spur too much controversy?

Terrorists that would take over a whole civilian area and are able to send waves of thousands of infantry? Yes, clearly.

Thank you, Captain Obvious. I was using "overrun by zombies" as both a hyperbole and as a shorthand for "beset by insert the worst disaster that doesn't need geography to occur (e.g. tsunamis and typhoons)".

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