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The Pentagon just ordered every major military base in the continental United States to be ready to run for 90 days without the civilian power grid. The order covers water, fuel, and communications as well. Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson and the official who led the effort, told Fox News Digital that the military cannot rely on ordinary city utilities to run the national defense and that the risk of doing so is one it will not accept. He summed it up in four words: “Power is combat now.” The military has looked at the same grid your family uses every day, decided it cannot count on it in the next war, and set 90 days as the length of time each base must be ready to go without it.
So did the government just tell us we will lose power for 90 days? The people who plan this country’s wars just told every base commander to prepare for exactly that, and nobody has issued the same order to the town outside the gate. The base will run on its own reactors, batteries, and microgrids. Your house will run on whatever you stored before the lights went out.
Why the Military Is Doing This Now
Parnell said the next conflict will likely be fought on multiple fronts and that global supply chains will break when it starts. Analysts reviewing the announcement read it as the strongest sign so far that the United States is preparing for a war with a near-peer military, almost certainly China, and they expect cyberattacks on American infrastructure to be part of that war.
In February 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint advisory on a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called Volt Typhoon. The agencies confirmed the group had broken into organizations in communications, energy, transportation, and water and wastewater systems, had kept access to some of them for at least five years, and was positioning itself to disrupt or destroy those services in a crisis or conflict with the United States. The Pentagon is now preparing its bases for the attack the FBI and NSA warned about.
The Order Covers More Than Power
The initiative, called FORTRESS, also builds military reserves of fuel, munitions, critical minerals, electronics, spare parts, and medical supplies. It requires at least two qualified sources for the military’s most critical supplies, so the loss of one factory cannot stop operations. It also lines up commercial factories to convert to defense production in a crisis.
Fuel, electronics, spare parts, and medical supplies are the same things a family needs when supply chains break, and the military is setting aside its supply first. The factories on the conversion list make the products on store shelves today. A war with China would likely bring empty shelves and rising prices well before any blackout, and a family that waits for the lights to go out will be buying after everyone else has already bought.
What 90 Days Without Power Looks Like
You wake up and the house is quiet. The refrigerator is off, and USDA guidance gives food in a closed refrigerator about 4 hours before it is unsafe and a full freezer about 48 hours. The furnace will not run even if it burns natural gas, because the blower and the ignition need electricity, and it is late October with winter ahead. Your phone still has a signal, but a 2004 congressional commission that studied a wide-area loss of power found that cell sites carry between 4 and 72 hours of backup power, so by the third day the phone is a flashlight. The traffic lights are out, and the commission expected gridlock across wide areas.
The supply chain stops in the first 24 hours. Supermarkets restock almost every day from trucks, and every one of those trucks fills up at a diesel pump that runs on electricity. When the pumps stop, the trucks stop, and so does every load of food, baby formula, insulin, oxygen, and medicine headed for your town. The commission found that supermarkets carry 1 to 3 days of food. Most American households keep a few days to a week of food in the house. The regional warehouses may hold a month of food for a multi-county area, and none of it moves without fuel.
The violence starts early. On July 13, 1977, lightning knocked out power to New York City for about 25 hours. Looting began within minutes of the lights going out, and by the time the power came back, 1,616 stores had been damaged, more than 1,000 fires had been set, and 3,776 people had been arrested in the largest mass arrest in the city’s history. That was one night in one city, with full grocery stores and a country around it that still had power. A nationwide outage puts every city in that position at the same time, and by the end of the first week the people breaking windows are looking for food and medicine.
Police and fire departments will not cover it. I spent nearly 30 years in law enforcement, and I can tell you what will happen. Officers will come to work for the first week. Once it is clear the power is going to stay off longer than that, they will go home to protect their own families, and most of them will not come back. Their dispatch centers, radios, and patrol cars depend on power and fuel anyway, and the commission warned that emergency services lose capability at the same moment demand for them peaks. Firefighters face the same choice. After the first week, nobody is answering 911.
That makes you your own cop. Nobody takes a report when your house is broken into, nobody responds when someone kicks your door at 2 a.m., and nobody investigates when a family down the street is robbed of the food that was keeping their children alive. You decide who comes onto your property, you stand watch, you settle disputes on your street, and you handle the threat at your door with whatever training and equipment you have in the house that night. The law does not go away when the police do. Self-defense law still applies, and when order returns, any use of force during the outage can be investigated, so every decision you make has to be one you can defend to a prosecutor later.
By the end of the first week, water pressure fails in many areas and the toilets stop flushing. The Texas freeze of February 2021 shows what one week does to a modern state: millions lost power, the water supply faltered, water treatment backed up, food spoiled, and more than 200 deaths were attributed to the event. That outage was regional, and help came from states that still had power. Dialysis patients, people on home oxygen, and elderly people in cold houses start dying first. Insulin is labeled as usable for about 28 days at room temperature, and no new insulin is being made or delivered, so a diabetic with a 30-day supply runs out in the first month of a 90-day outage.
In weeks two through four, most homes are out of food. Hungry people do what hungry people have always done: they go to the neighbors who have food, first to ask and then to take. Untreated water and human waste with nowhere to go bring disease. In winter a house with no lighting spends about 14 hours a day in the dark, and candles, space heaters, and generators run in garages by people who have never used them for weeks will start fires and cause carbon monoxide deaths, with no fire department coming.
For months two and three, the commission found that the longer an outage lasts, the harder recovery becomes, and that failures in one system drag down the others until the damage can reach the point where the country cannot support its population. Less than 2 percent of Americans grow the food for the other 98 percent, and farming runs on fuel, power, and trucks. Members of the commission later testified to Congress that a nationwide blackout lasting a year could kill up to 90 percent of Americans through starvation, disease, and the breakdown of society. Ninety days is a quarter of that year.
What to Do Starting This Week
The Pentagon’s plan has a structure a household can copy: its own power, water, fuel, and communications, reserves set aside in advance, and a second source for everything critical. Work through it in order from what costs nothing to what costs the most.
The plan and the people come first, and they are free. Sit down with your family this week and decide what has to keep running: medical equipment, medication cooling, lights, a radio, and phone charging. Write down an out-of-area contact and a meeting place. Then sit down with your readiness team, or the people you want on one, and write down which households have a generator, a well, medical training, tools, land, or a spare room, and which have someone who depends on medication or medical equipment.
Medications are next, because nobody can make more of them for you. Ask your doctor for the longest supply they will prescribe of every maintenance medication and how to store it without a refrigerator.
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Water and food follow. Store 3 gallons per person per day for at least 30 days, which is 360 gallons for a family of four, and add a quality filter and a second water source such as rain catchment, a well, or a nearby creek for everything after that. Build food storage to 30 days now with a target of 90, made from food your family already eats, and rotate it.
Heat and light need two of everything in winter. A wood stove or an indoor-rated propane heater gives you a second heat source, and it needs a battery-powered carbon monoxide alarm beside it. Put battery smoke alarms and a fire extinguisher where you will use the heaters and lamps.
Security is part of the plan from the first day. Keep your supplies out of sight and stop talking about them now, including on social media. A generator running at night tells the whole street you have fuel, and a lit window tells them you have power, so run generators in daylight where you can watch them and cover windows after dark. Every adult in the house who can be trained with a firearm should be trained now, and the household should agree in advance on who keeps watch and when, who answers the door, where each person goes if someone forces entry, and where the line is for using force.
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Communications have to be layered. Cell phones are the first layer and the first to fail, because cell sites carry between 4 and 72 hours of backup power. The second layer is VHF and UHF radio, handhelds and mobile radios that cover your neighborhood and your town, and that is how your readiness team and your street will talk to each other. The third layer is HF radio, which reaches family in other states after every phone and internet line is down. Every layer needs its own power, so plan on batteries recharged from a solar generator. When lives are at stake and normal communications are down, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules allow emergency radio traffic to protect life and property, and nobody will be checking licenses. The license is how you learn to run the equipment before that day, so study for the amateur radio exams now and learn your antennas, frequencies, and procedures while it is quiet. The commission also found that radios not connected to antennas, power lines, or other long wires at the time of an event are likely to keep working, so keep a spare set disconnected. Set a daily check-in time.
Power should stay small and quiet. In a town or city, the right choice is a portable solar generator, a battery power station with folding panels you set out in the backyard during the day and bring inside at night. It recharges the radios, lights, phones, and medical devices on your critical list, and that is all it needs to do. A roof covered in solar panels or one lit house on a dark street tells every desperate person in sight that you have power, and anyone with power is assumed to have food. They will come for it. Rural families can run larger systems and still need to keep them out of sight.
The Pentagon requires two qualified sources for its most critical supplies. Hold your household to the same standard: two ways to make water safe, two ways to heat a room, two ways to light it, and two ways to reach help.
Activate Your Readiness Team
This is the event a readiness team exists for. One family cannot stand watch around the clock, treat a gunshot wound, purify water for weeks, keep the radios charged, and grow food all at once. A team of ten split into two Elements of five can hold the property with one Element while the other sleeps. When each member owns a specialty (team leader, medical, weapons and security, communications, logistics and supply, food production, sanitation and water, power and mechanical, chaplain, and training and intelligence), the team covers what no household can cover alone. Every member cross-trains in a second specialty from the other Element. A stockpile runs out on a known day, and the skills on the team decide what happens after it does.
If you have a team, activate it the day the power goes out, while fuel, roads, and phones still work well enough to bring everyone together. If you do not have one, start building it this week. Your church is the place to find the ten. A congregation already has nurses, mechanics, hunters, gardeners, veterans, and people who know how to lead, and its leaders already carry recognized authority. Sit down with the people you would trust with your family, assign the specialties in writing, choose the team leader, and set your first drill before winter.
What the Bible Says
Genesis 41:34-36 records Joseph telling Pharaoh to store a fifth of the harvest during seven good years so Egypt could survive seven years of famine. Egypt stored grain while the fields were full, and the famine came on schedule. The Pentagon is storing for its bases now, and your family’s years of plenty are the weeks left while the stores are full and the power is on.
Scripture is also honest about what happens when the restraint of government disappears. Judges 21:25 closes a book full of murder, kidnapping, and civil war with the explanation that there was no king in Israel and everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Romans 13:1-4 teaches that God appoints governing authorities to restrain evil and that they carry the sword for that purpose. When the officers go home after the first week, that restraint goes with them, and Judges describes what fills the space. Second Kings 6:24-29 shows the same thing from inside a city under siege, where famine drove the price of a donkey’s head to 80 shekels of silver and drove mothers to things no parent should ever do. Hunger does that to people, including God’s people, and a Christian household should go into this with eyes open.
When the authorities are gone, the duty to protect the family stays with the head of the household, and Scripture puts limits on how it is carried out. Exodus 22:2-3 says a man who strikes and kills a thief breaking in at night bears no bloodguilt, and that if the sun has risen, he does. At night he cannot see who is coming through the wall or what they intend. In daylight he can see, call for help, and use less than deadly force. God’s law allows a household to defend itself and holds it accountable for doing so with restraint, which is the same standard a prosecutor will apply when order returns. Jesus used the picture of a strong man, fully armed, guarding his own house so that his goods are safe in Luke 11:21, and 1 Timothy 5:8 says a person who does not provide for the household has denied the faith. Provision and protection are both part of that duty.
Matthew 25:1-13 tells of five bridesmaids who brought extra oil and five who did not, and when the bridegroom was delayed, the five without oil went to buy more and missed the door. Matthew 24:6 tells believers they will hear of wars and rumors of wars and instructs them not to be alarmed, and Philippians 4:6-7 promises a peace that guards the heart and mind to those who bring every anxiety to God in prayer.
Final Thoughts
Start with the 90-day household plan this week, while the stores are full and the power is on. Fill in the critical list first, then the water and food math, then work through medications, security, radios, power, and your readiness team. Then tell me in the comments where your household stands: how many days of water and food you have in the house right now, and which gap you are closing first. I read them, and other families learn from what you share.
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✅ 90-Day Supply Calculator and Log (7 pages): household roster, water and food calculators at 30, 60, and 90 days, water storage and food inventory logs, a fuel calculator and storage log, a medication log, batteries and lighting, and a 13-week consumption log to track an actual outage
✅ Grid-Down Power and Comms Planner (4 pages): a critical-loads watt-hour table, battery and solar panel sizing math, the small-and-quiet rules for keeping power out of sight, a daily charging schedule, a three-layer radio plan, and a check-in schedule
✅ Long-Outage Household Security Plan (5 pages): operational security for light, noise, cooking smells, and trash, a side-by-side house assessment with a safe room, a watch rotation, a door procedure, a written line for using force, firearms training records, and a trusted neighbors list
✅ Church Grid-Down Activation Plan (6 pages): who activates the plan and on what triggers, a first-24-hours action list with owners, a congregation household roster, tracking for members who depend on medication or equipment, the church facility as a base, readiness team assignments, a pooled supply ledger, and a property watch schedule
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