DEFCON

See also: Defcon

Defcon is a contraction of the American terms DEFense and Condition, indicating the military level of alarm of the Armed forces of the United States.

There exist seven levels of alarm, aLERT CONDition or LERTCON. Five of them correspond to DEFCON, that is to say:

DEFCON 5: Normal preparation in times of peace
DEFCON 4: Normal preparation, but increased information and reinforced security measures
DEFCON 3: Increase in the preparation of the forces above the normal preparation
DEFCON 2: Increase additional in the preparation in forces, but lower than the maximum preparation
DEFCON 1: Maximum preparation of the forces (state of war). This level is planned for an attack imminent or envisaged American army or American territory by a foreign army. This level of alarm reached forever.

The two others are of EMERGency CONDition (EMERGCON), correspond to an attack by ICBM:

DEFENSE EMERGENCY: tackles major against American forces in addition to sea or of the allied forces.
AIR DEFENSE EMERGENCY: attacks against the territory of the United States, the Canada or the Greenland in progress or imminent.

In the case of a EMERGCON, all the forces pass automatically in DEFCON 1.

Historically, only the DEFCON 2 was reached once during the Crise of the cuban missiles, only the Strategic Air Command was placed there the October 23rd 1962, the other forces remaining in DEFCON 3, the SAC returned in state DEFCON 3, only on November 15th 1965.

The DEFCON 3, was also adopted the October 25th 1973, following release, the 6, of the Guerre of Kippour, in fear of a Soviet intervention; the last command to leave it was the 6 {{E}} fleet in the Mediterranean, the November 17th. The Strategic Air Command, on the other hand passed the majority of the Cold war, in DEFCON 4, even 3.

More recently, the DEFCON 3 was adopted at the time of the Attentat S of the September 11th, 2001.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

DEFCON Defense Condition

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