

By allowing the trainees' imaginations to run wild, the instructors were able to teach them about the basics of writing military plans and orders, they wrote. Using zombies was also fun, the report's authors write. Using zombies gets around that problem (for most citizens, at least). If real countries are detailed in the plan, the public might mistakenly believe the plans are real. It's a complex task, and training can be fraught. Joint operation planning involves organizing between multiple branches of the military. "During the summers of 20, while training augmentees from a local training squadron about the JOPP, members of a USSTRATCOM component found out (by accident) that the hyperbole involved in writing a " zombie survival plan" actually provided a very useful and effective training tool."
