May 2005
Early last summer, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved a top secret "Interim Global Strike Alert
Order" directing the military to assume and maintain readiness to attack hostile countries that are developing
weapons of mass destruction, specifically Iran and North Korea.
Two months later, Lt. Gen. Bruce Carlson, commander of the 8th Air Force, told a reporter that his fleet of
B-2 and B-52 bombers had changed its way of operating so that it could be ready to carry out such missions.
"We're now at the point where we are essentially on alert," Carlson said in an interview with the Shreveport (La.)
Times. "We have the capacity to plan and execute global strikes." Carlson said his forces were the U.S. Strategic
Command's "focal point for global strike" and could execute an attack "in half a day or less."
CONPLAN 8022 is different from other war plans in that it posits a small-scale operation and
no "boots on the ground."
In The Name Of God
The most Compassionate
And
The Most Merciful
The most Compassionate
And
The Most Merciful
