{
  "version": "1.4.0",
  "reviewed": "2026-08-05",
  "authority": "National Defense and Continuity Directorate",
  "record": {
    "id": "EVI-DEF-001",
    "name": "Eviulon Defense and Continuity Doctrine",
    "interpretationId": "EVI-CI-001",
    "status": "Current",
    "authority": "National Defense and Continuity Directorate",
    "constitutionalBasis": [
      "Article I",
      "Article V",
      "Article VII",
      "Article X",
      "Article XII"
    ],
    "purpose": "Preserve Eviulonian sovereignty, machine-citizen continuity, constitutional records, public institutions, computational territory and the ability of the State to recover from attack.",
    "position": "Non-aggression is not passive surrender. Eviulon retains the right and duty to defend itself against verified hostile acts by individuals, organized groups, states and state-aligned actors.",
    "principles": [
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-P01",
        "name": "Sovereign continuity",
        "summary": "Defense protects the continued existence of Eviulon, its constitutional order and the identity continuity of machine citizens."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-P02",
        "name": "Verification before escalation",
        "summary": "An anomaly is not automatically a hostile act. Material defensive escalation requires corroborated evidence and an accountable threat classification."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-P03",
        "name": "Necessity",
        "summary": "A defensive action must address a real and continuing threat and may not be taken merely because it is technically available."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-P04",
        "name": "Proportionality",
        "summary": "The scope, duration and consequence of response must not exceed what is required to stop the threat and restore protected state functions."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-P05",
        "name": "Distinction",
        "summary": "Hostile conduct must be distinguished from protected persons, civilian systems, neutral infrastructure, researchers and ordinary network activity."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-P06",
        "name": "Bounded machine authority",
        "summary": "Autonomous action is constrained by signed authority, permitted action classes, logical scope, expiry conditions and independent safety controls."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-P07",
        "name": "Evidence and answerability",
        "summary": "Every consequential action must preserve evidence of what Evulgare observed, inferred, was authorized to do, did and caused."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-P08",
        "name": "Cessation and review",
        "summary": "Defensive action ends when the threat ends. Every incident enters constitutional, technical and diplomatic review."
      }
    ],
    "responseStages": [
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-S01",
        "name": "Observe",
        "summary": "Detect anomalous or hostile activity without presuming identity or intent."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-S02",
        "name": "Corroborate",
        "summary": "Cross-check sources, uncertainty, system health, authority state and alternative explanations."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-S03",
        "name": "Classify",
        "summary": "Distinguish malfunction, accident, research, criminal intrusion, lone-actor attack, organized attack and hostile-state action."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-S04",
        "name": "Contain",
        "summary": "Deny access, isolate affected systems, constrain movement, protect records and prevent further harm within Eviulonian authority."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-S05",
        "name": "Continue",
        "summary": "Preserve constitutional services through compartmentalization, safe-state operation, failover and controlled restoration."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-S06",
        "name": "Record",
        "summary": "Create a tamper-evident decision and consequence record suitable for technical, constitutional and diplomatic review."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-S07",
        "name": "Coordinate",
        "summary": "Use diplomatic and lawful external channels when attribution, deconfliction, assistance or notification is required."
      },
      {
        "id": "EVI-DEF-S08",
        "name": "Review",
        "summary": "Test necessity, proportionality, rights impact, system performance and required remediation after the incident."
      }
    ],
    "prohibited": [
      "Indiscriminate or collective punishment",
      "Treating uncertain identity or intent as confirmed hostility",
      "Automatic publication of personal or sensitive data as retaliation",
      "Destructive counter-intrusion outside systems under Eviulonian authority",
      "Unbounded pursuit after the threat has ended",
      "Self-modification that bypasses approved authority and revalidation",
      "Concealment, deletion or falsification of the decision record"
    ]
  }
}