World War Z Redeker

[Ronald Frison]

The Redeker Plan (commonly known as "The South African war plan") is a strategy employed in the fictional world of World War Z, a novel written by Max Brooks. The Redeker Plan is essentially the intentional sacrifice of a large portion of the population in order to save a population in a more defensible or important location.

The strategy is named after its creator, Paul Redeker, who had previously redrafted Plan Orange 84, the "doomsday scenario" survival plan for the Apartheid government should the Black African population rise up in a general insurrection against the White Afrikaners. Redeker himself was a logical and dispassionate man, who believed emotions such as love and hate to be irrelevant and inefficient. Plan Orange made Redeker a hated man in South Africa, and he assumed that in the chaotic times of South Africa's Great Panic (which started weeks earlier than the panic in the Unites States), someone would finally exact retribution for it.

During the zombie outbreak in South Africa, The South African government covertly sent a special forces team to retrieve Redeker - not to kill him, as he suspected, but to adapt Plan Orange 84 into a zombie survival plan for the nation. Redeker had already drafted most of the plan out of boredom, being holed up in a cabin since the initial outbreaks. After his plan was introduced, the South African president and most of his surviving cabinet were ready to reject the plan outright due to a combination of its heartlessness and of hatred of Redeker himself, calling him a "demented" war criminal. It was at this point retired president and national hero Nelson Mandela stepped in to personally vouch for Redeker's plan, and he embraced Redeker to emphasize this. The unexpected shock of this hug may have caused Redeker to go through an emotional and mental breakdown, which resulted in Redeker functioning under the assumed identity of Xolelwa Azania.

The plan was as coldly logical as it was brilliant, with no detail left out. Everything from geography and military capability, to the nature and capabilities of the undead and their "motivations", to available resources, to civilians, their vocations, physical and mental heath, their skills, and their location to potential crisis zones. The plan called for the government and military to relocate to a fortified "Safe Zone", a reasonably large area with as many natural barriers, such as mountains, canyons and rivers, so as to give the undead fewer entry points into the safe zone, and to reduce the resources and manpower needed to fortify those entry points. The plan listed those refugees and civilians who would be chosen to inhabit this safe zone (since not everyone could be saved), to provide a skilled labor pool for wartime production and to eventually repopulate retaken infested areas. This part of the plan was consistent with any general strategy of retreat.

The most controversial part of the plan (which many claim that Redeker will be damned for) is to leave pockets of isolated survivors deep within infested areas, to distract the hordes of zombies. These isolated survivors would need to be resupplied by the government occasionally so the the survivors can continue to act as bait, for every zombie attacking their fortification is one less attacking the government's safe zone.

This is a utilitarian notion, which has ethical implications, because it implies that there are people who are less fit to survive than others. With this plan, the value of people is not based on socio-economic value or any cultural bias, but rather the strategic value location (factors may include a natural resource, a power plant, long-term defensibility and sustainability, etc). An example would be a large population existing at bottle neck landmark. In World War Z, the military withdrew from a bottle neck area, leaving unarmed or poorly supplied civilians to fend for themselves. This sacrifice occupied the outbreak while the military was able to reform and fortify the bottleneck.

Most nations who adopted the plan used their own variant that was more (or arguably less, depending on one's perspective) humane, that called for organized supply drops into the decoy zones of men and material. The United States in particular established schedules of supply drops on larger fortifications, dropping medicine, food, and even reinforcements of Special Forces personnel to train the survivors in combat and lead them in battle. While at first this appears to be an entirely humanitarian effort to not abandon those outside of the safe zones (and indeed, it was intended to seem that way), it had the added effect of ensuring the decoy populations of survivors would remain in one place and in numbers large enough to remain a lucrative target to the hordes of zombies.

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Redeker, who is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American Heart Association, has an international reputation in biobehavioral nursing science. Previously, she was the Beatrice Renfield Professor of Nursing at Yale University and director of the Yale School of Nursing Center for Biobehavioral Health Research. Her sustained program of research addresses the role of sleep and sleep disorders, and the effects of behavioral sleep promotion interventions, in people who have acute and chronic conditions.

Before her time at Yale, Redeker spent 15 years at Rutgers University in New Jersey and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now part of Rutgers), where she held various positions within the College of Nursing, including director of graduate programs in nursing, interim dean, and associate dean for research.

Over the past six years, she has been a principal investigator, co-investigator, or mentor on 58 extramural grants. She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 19 book chapters, 120 peer-reviewed abstracts, and has been invited to present on her research at major scientific conferences around the world. She has served on 25 scientific review committees at the national and international level. And she provided service to the profession in more than a dozen leadership roles in different societies and consulted with over 15 academic institutions.

Sandra Sophia Redeker "breathes" IP: With over 20 years of professional experience, she specializes in strategic advice as well as litigation and dispute resolution in intellectual property (esp. trademarks, designs, know-how) and competition law. Her work includes the development and optimization of trademark and design portfolios worldwide, advice on marketing campaigns and advertising, the exploitation of rights (licensing & merchandising) and the protection of know-how. She also advises on all issues relevant to IP in the course of digitalization and the influence of artificial intelligence. Her clients mainly come from the FMCG, (e)sports, life science, health & food as well as media & entertainment sectors.

Sandra Sophia Redeker is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and has been active in committees there for many years, currently in the Clearinghouse of the Pro Bono Committee (current term 2023/24).

Azania mentions that "Redeker's lifelong jihad against emotion was the only way to protect his sanity from the hatred and brutality he witnessed on a daily basis" (5.1.20). To expand on that, his emotional jihad also helps lessen the hatred and brutality of the zombie wars by preventing them from continuing longer than they needed to. Unfortunately for Redeker, to lose hatred and brutality, he also has to lose love and kindness.

Redeker's plan works. Since the whole world more or less adopts his plan, he manages to prevent World War Z from continuing until humanity's total destruction. No doubt he'll be known only as Saint Redeker form here on in, right? Right?

Not exactly. Redeker's plan has to be carried out by the people in charge, like Travis D'Ambrosia, as well as those in the mist of fighting like Philip Adler. These are the people who have to do the deeds and suffer the emotional toil that Redeker himself couldn't deal with.

Quinn Redeker spent years as a Police Motor Officer and instructor in the state of California. As the current National Brand Ambassador for BMW Motorrad Authority Division, Quinn travels around the world competing in motor competitions, providing demonstrations, and offering clinics to Police Agencies and civilians. He has competed in well over 100 police competitions throughout the United States where he took top honors at all but a few. Quinn grew up on off-road bikes, racing motocross and desert events since the age of 9 and continues racing today. Quinn has ridden, raced, and received world-class instruction in various disciplines of motorcycling; including street, track, trials, motocross, and dirt track.

The lion and wolf seek to rip, tear, and shred you apart. Do not fear. Your Good Shepherd is with you and present with you right now. Yes. As sheep we will wander. But your faith in Jesus is what keeps you as part of His flock. Some sheep wander. They may leave the faith and flock altogether. Nevertheless, the Good Shepherd chases them down. He will leave the ninety-nine and go after the one.

Jesus sits the people on the now green, fresh grass. He takes the bread and the fish, and He blesses them. The Greek word there is eulogeō (oy-lo-GEH-oh). When God eulogeō-s[1] things, miracles happen. He eulogeō-s the bread and fish multiplying them to the point where all who were present had their fill and were satisfied.

Is today a day where you could certainly use some green pastures beside some still waters? Are you seeking an exodus from the woes of this world? That was the situation of the crowd that followed Jesus and His disciples that day in the Gospel reading for the week: the Feeding of the 5,000. They carried their sick and lame friends and relatives to the other side even beating Jesus and the disciples there. Imagine carrying and transporting your sick, ill, disease-ridden relatives that distance. Imagine bringing your blind, deaf, lame, or mute friend. Imagine that you are one of these people seeking green pastures and still waters in the midst of wilderness and deserted places. This was the dire situation in which the people found themselves. They were looking for hope because they were sheep without a shepherd.

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