Inside the Pentagon's doomsday plan to keep America fighting if global war erupts

The Pentagon is overhauling how it protects U.S. military installations, requiring bases to function for at least 90 days with no outside help in the event of a large-scale war that knocks out power grids, snarls supply chains and endangers vital infrastructure inside the country. Fox News Digital reports the mandate, based on documents it reviewed, belongs to an initiative called FORTRESS, designed to keep American forces able to fight even when civilian systems they rely on fail.

Under the plan, each major installation in the continental United States would need to supply its own electricity, water, fuel and communications for essential operations over that stretch. Defense planners are also laying the groundwork for civilian factories to turn to military production during an emergency, and for backup supply networks and strategic stockpiles meant to keep weapons, fuel and other critical materials moving.

Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said relying on municipal utilities for national defense is "an intolerable risk." He argued that homeland defense planning long rested on the outdated belief that two oceans offered protection, and that President Trump recognizes that era is over.

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