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> 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.

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.

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.

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