What's Behind the Pentagon's 90-Day Doomsday Plan

The people who run the system are not preparing for the same future they are selling to the rest of us. This week, that truth stopped being a theory. The Pentagon has reportedly told U.S. military bases that they must be able to operate completely off-grid for 90 days, according to reporting by Fox News. [1] Meanwhile, the UK government's "Be Ready" campaign is telling British households they should prepare for roughly three days of disruption. [2] Ninety days for the military. Three days for you.

That contrast is the story I want you to sit with, because it tells you more about what the people in charge actually believe than any press briefing ever will. When the agencies that own the satellites, the classified briefings, and the contingency plans decide they need 90 days of independent fuel, power and supply, that is not a drill. That is a read on the near future. And when the same class of officials hands the public a weekend-survival shopping list, they are not informing us -- they are managing us.

I am not writing this to frighten you into paralysis. I am writing it to make you understand that the gap between what they know and what they tell you is the most important fact in your life right now. The people preparing for a 90-day grid-down scenario are not doing it for a weekend of bad weather. ...

The Pentagon is preparing its bases for 90 days off-grid. The UK is handing out 72-hour checklists to the public. A central food-processing plant just exploded. Those three facts, taken together, tell a coherent story about what the people in charge expect. <end snip>...