“Eleven crazies using TWO commercial planes f##cked this country up right good. That was no army that struck enough fear in the peasantry that they were willing to surrender their rights as sovereign citizens—it was crazies striking at society’s nerve centers.”
This is not a new idea - the idea of “decapitating” a country has been around for a while. Among the many visionary things from the mind of Arthur C. Clarke was in his book, “Childhood’s End”, where he asks to the effect, what is the more powerful weapon - An atomic bomb, or a miniaturized robot bug that flies in the ear of the enemy leader, and keeps him up day and night driving him crazy. That wild idea is darned near achievable now.
Yeah, that was a great book.
I’m obviously more of a Gibson guy, myself.
The man is a prophet.