They’ll cut one cable and instantly lose 10 subs and hundreds of men...
The only way Russia and/or China can feel confindent in prevailing in a war with the U.S. is if they believed they had the capability to disrupt command and control by having infiltrated informational systems.
The only way the U.S. can prevail in such a conflict is by assuming that they have infiltrated our informational systems and by allowing them to continue to belive they have, even after we have taken steps to assure they have not.
“They’ll cut one cable and instantly lose 10 subs and hundreds of men...”
When dealing with Stalin, who everybody knew was a psycho killer, the West was extremely polite. Situations were defused because...nuclear weapons. You can’t engage in tit for tat with a nuclear power, especially if that power might, at any moment, collapse into chaos. If Putin cut a cable, which he won’t unless he thinks war is immanent, the US would do something proportional. It’s not as satisfying as hauling off and knocking him flat, but it’s not as likely to result in ten million casualties either.
Politics is a three-D chess game, not a rumble. For the first time in almost a decade I think we have a player on our side who is competent and has our best interests at heart. Putin sees this and won’t do anything stupid.
Kim Jung UN, now that’s a different matter. But again, one misstep on Trump’s part and mass casualties. The president who flubs that one will be out of office pronto.
Were I the Russians those cables would already have been mined in multiple places.
“They’ll cut one cable and instantly lose 10 subs and hundreds of men...”
Yeah, right.
Lay some decoy cables, go wireless via satellite.