There’ve been contingency plans since 1948. Why are they suddenly formulating new ones. Were the old ones inadequate? How?
A clue might be the White House formulating rather than the Pentagon digging out already formulated plans
“Were the old ones inadequate? How?”
The old plans were to try to save large portions of the civilian population.
They just don’t care about that anymore.
They want us to believe that we are safe and they have everything under control.
When in fact, they haven't a plan or a clue.
There have been war plans/contingency plans since Washington was president.
It was the Departments of the Navy and War to make up all kinds of plans. This is a historical FACT.
Check our War Plan Red, a 1920s plan to invade Canada if we ever went to war with the British.
Since the DoD was formed from these departments in 1947, it has been the Pentagon's job to have all kinds of war/contingency plans. They change ALL the time. I was in Washington DC (escaped in 1991 for Europe) and at the DIA/Pentagon for 7 years. That's all we did, was game this, game that, calculate order of battle for everyone's military, always adding and subtracting based on the latest intelligence...
It was a lot of work, and we did it 24/7/365.
And even so, we still had 9/11. People here were furious as we didn't seem to have any plan on an enemy using commercial aircraft as weapons...
After 9/11, it became even more intense, as non-nation states, terrorist groups and even non-government organizations like the Red Cross had to be considered.
This isn't a Biden versus Trump thing either, or neocon versus paleocon. Grant did it, so did Garfield, Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan, even Jimmy Carter. All nations do this, including the Good Ole USA...