Posted on 01/09/2016 7:12:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Revolutions in warfare, though they may be predicted by theorists, are often unnoticed by governments and their military establishments -- until it is too late.
On November 11, 1940, during the Battle of Taranto, torpedo planes from the British aircraft carrier Illustrious sank the Italian battleship Conte di Cavour. It was the first time in history that an aircraft carrier sank a battleship....
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I read an article in the late 60s (I think), in which William F. Buckley basically said that we are very vulnerable to infrastructure sabotage.
I think he was primarily thinking of the electric grid.
Infrastructure with heavy casualties. Overwhelming emergency services. Disposable terrorists with a 90% or greater chance of dying killing us, with a 10+:1 ratio.
We had an infrastructure attack here in San Jose a few years ago: a disciplined team shot up the main power station and destroyed several transformers without detection by the surveillance system. It got hardly any attention because a few hours later the Boston Marathon Bombers struck.
Interesting!
I was working for an electric utility at the time that happened. It didn’t get a lot of notice in the media (they were probably too busy promoting unisex bathrooms or covering the Kardashians), but you can bet it got a lot of attention in the industry.
Yes, I remember that.
The huge main power transformers take a year plus to build and are not readily stockpiled due to expense and custom specifications.
If there were to be a coordinated sabotage of large main transformers like San Jose, at numerous strategic sites throughout the power grid, it would be disasterous.
For one thing, Nuclear power plants actually need grid supplied electricity in order to run reactor cooling water pumps, and are only designed to run on onsite diesel generators for a limited period of time.
It’s miraculous we’ve gotten by as well as we have so far.
Well, the Political Class is effectively sabotaged into submitting to Islam.
This could happen any day. There is no urgency in our security and the thought in Washington is that it wouldn’t be such a huge disaster.. and they could fix it right away. Judge Jeanine Pirro had a guest on one of her shows some time back, and he said if the infrastructure went down, there’d be no fix because there’d be no way of getting parts for a long time ...no planes would be flying, everything would be down and nothing would be working. No electricity, and thus, no heat to speak of and as he went on about what would happen, she was almost speechless. No food getting to the stores.. no stores.. no water to speak of... nothing. Computers down and since everything is run by computers, that would all go too. Our government is not ready for this.. they are woefully unprepared for such a catastrophe. And there are those who are trying to do this to us. We’d be open to any attack if we had no way of defense if such a thing ever happened.
Metcalf substation.
So long as we can stave off any insurgent attacks by Malta, we should fare well...
Do they unloose a fifth column within our nation to hunt down and destroy patriots, and set up a puppet government? Do they invade from outside our borders? It could take us a couple years to begin recovering from the confusion of sabotage, and I wonder what the enemy will be doing to us in the interim.
I can think of a 1/2 dozen critical infrastructure points that exist in multiple locations in every state and are either unguarded or guarded by Barney Fife.
The large size of our country is a detriment as it is impossible to secure everything.
No, Obama was.
The alarm is being sounded. I just don’t think it is being taken seriously.
There will be no time for an election.
It will be over this year.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3381625/posts
Shortly after the light go out, there will be no Muslims, no Hands Upers.
There is nothing more dangerous that an old white man when you hurt his old white wife and his young white grandkids.
Yes, I know that is a racist statement. It is also a true statement.
I remember that event. Quite scary. You could take down the grid for quite some time with a large, coordinated attack at many sites. Some of the elements are large, expensive, and built to order, not stocked in a yard or warehouse in any great numbers.
The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon
http://tinyurl.com/z9jtb69
In about the last 3 months, SoCA Edison has laid off about 50% of its distribution system field personnel and is “outsourcing” the skill sets to experts.
The experts don’t even recognize the variables in Maxwell’s eqns, nor have they been exposed to coordination studies.
Interesting thing about the power industry. Either the power is on or it isn’t. When it isn’t, everybody relies on the experts to get it back on.
When it remains off until real experts are found, we now have a society which will salvage/scrap/metals theft the system so it might not ever get back up.
Southern California is rushing to become the next Old Mexico in infrastructure without any adversarial attacks.
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