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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: World Trade Center attack
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 09:26:42PM -0400, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Mark C . Langston wrote: > > > DEFCON 2 has been reached, I believe. > > > > DEFCON 1 does not necessarily equate automatically to war, however. It > > is merely the maximum level of force readiness. > > Wargames had it backwards. DEFCON 1 is peace, DEFCON 5 is war. The DoD Dictionary (http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf) doesn't explicitly state the order, but does imply it progresses from 5 to 1. Army Regulation 2510 (http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:99rWu1xnDgQ:www.usapa.army.mil/pdffiles/r25_10.pdf+defense+readiness+condition+defcon&hl=en) implies that the restrictions on information transfer during an emergency increase as the DEFCON level decreases from 5 to 1, implying that 1 is the highest state of operational readiness, not the lowest. Further, most every reference available, military and non-military, recognizes DEFCON 5 as the state of lowest operational readiness. Were I so inclined to search further, I'm sure I could dig up a definitive military or governmental document that explicitly states the rank ordering of defense readiness conditions. However, I think the evidence above suffices. -- Mark C. Langston [email protected] Systems & Network Admin http://www.bitshift.org
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