User blog comment:Lord Bá Đạo/Defense Team, The Series/@comment-5920426-20160319212110/@comment-5527544-20160319225523

Meanings are not universal.

Also, DEFCON has nothing to do directly with Nuclear War. DEFCON is a system of readiness for an attack, with the least ready being DEFCON 5 (No signs of trouble) to DEFCON 1 (Trouble is immenent). It is like Red Alert on Start. Different departments and levels of Government and the Military use it, and for each level it means something similar, but ultimately different. If the Head of TPC or the Minister of Defense (The war hawk guy) said that, then it would mean all out war with Earth and another planet i.e. and invasion was coming.

Her statement is not overeacting to anything, she's telling GUTS to be on the look out for trouble