![]() ![]() In fact, I praise this move as it was a sensible, prudent thing to do.įor those of you - mostly my readers in the United Kingdom - who don’t understand our defense levels, a little history is in order.ĭEFCON is an acronym for Defense Ready Condition, DEFCON is what the Pentagon uses to indicate the level of threats the country faces from other nations, which then determines readiness for any potential response and I’ve been told you lot on the other side of pond don’t actually have something like this. I don’t begrudge my President or my Pentagon going to DEFCON 2 after Vladimir Putin decided he was going to put his nuclear forces on alert. Well, I noticed because it’s something of a hobby of mine to keep track of our military (being a former Navy man) and it’s readiness levels.īasically, it lets me know what kind of day I’m going to have.īut, again, hardly anybody noticed this monumental event with the exception of a political website in New Zealand. In fact, we were exactly one DEFCON level away from World War III. ![]()
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