
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22307683/defcon.jpg)


The President refuses to order any DEFCON threat level regardless of the circumstances.The President explicitly asks his military advisors what ordering DEFCON 1 means before he gives the order.Exploited: The system hasn't been changed, but The Mole in the government assumes the president's authority and plays on people's belief that it has before ordering DEFCON 1 and inviting one or more hostile countries to invade.Lampshaded: "DEFCON 5 means 'no danger', DEFCON 1 is a crisis!".Enforced: Meddling Executives insist that "DEFCON 5" be the highest level of military readiness because people are used to seeing it that way.Averted: DEFCON 1 is correctly given as the highest level of military readiness.
