Posted on 11/30/2018 12:51:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
The report, titled, “Electromagnetic Defense Task Force,” and the product of a mostly classified summit of officials from 40 agencies just outside of Washington earlier this year, is a forceful call for a new focus on preparing for either an enemy EMP attack or a natural hit such as a solar storm.
While it is focused on the devastating impact an EMP hit would have on the military, it appears to support a congressional warning that up to 90 percent of the population on the East Coast would die in a year of an attack that would dismantle or interfere with electricity, transportation, food processing, and healthcare.
Consider just some of the warnings in the report from the United States Air Force Air University and the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education.
Figuring out just which country launched an attack would be difficult since certain weapons could be delivered in a satellite.
It also noted the development of the 5G mobile network and how it will run communications and why it must be protected, especially since China is the biggest investor in its development.
“Because control of 5G is roughly equivalent to control of the Internet, open 5G is critical to freedom and free-market economics. Meanwhile, access to the 5G-millimeter wave bandwidth will be critical to operations in all war-fighting domains, in particular, space command & control,” said the white paper.
Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, the commander of Air Education and Training Command, said, “As electromagnetic technologies fuse in new and often dangerous ways, it’s critical that the military and industry make honest evaluations of present and future conflict states to ensure we’re proactive rather than reactive.”
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How do you reset it? The infrastructure is wrecked. The US has locomotives stock piled for this type of calamity but you have to clear the burnt out locomotives first and the trains the were pulling. That takes time that the cities don’t have.
How do you reset it? The infrastructure is wrecked. The US has locomotives stock piled for this type of calamity but you have to clear the burnt out locomotives first and the trains they were pulling. That takes time that the cities don’t have.
Sorry about the dupes im on a train.
A couple of scud delivered nukes from a freighter in the Gulf would cripple half the US and there would be no way to determine who to retaliate against. What if it was determined ISIS is responsible (one of the more likely scenarios) blowing up the Middle East doesn’t help to feed 175 million starving Americans. Telling ISIS you will destroy the Middle East more than likely wouldn’t deter them either.
I think we need clarification on the science. I have heard doomsday and I would be happy to hear that is false.
If you could share some scientific, factual information supporting that it would be useful.
It’s hard for some people to accept how easy and cheap it would be to attack us with EMP. ISIS, with a stolen or bought nuke and a scud on a freighter in the Gulf of Mexico does the trick.
Women, minorities, LBGTQ communities hardest hit.
I am fully aware of much cheaper and easier methods for accomplishing mass destruction of infrastructure, however these postulated EMP scenarios do not fall into the credible category.
“We have satellites tracking EVERY missile launch in the world.”
But how do you trace the origin - with 100% reliability - of a missile launched from a barge located 100 miles off of your coastline, when the origin of the barge itself cannot be tracked, and the barge itself is sunk immediately after launch?
You said it yourself: “They are bad guys. But they are not stupid.” If they can build nukes and rockets, they are smart enough to hide the origin of a weapon, or to leave just enough clues to pin it on someone else. So, IMHO, there is NO guarantee that the nation launching such an attack upon us would be caught (and incinerated 30 minutes later). Frankly, were I leading Iran, I’d try to frame the (Godless) Chinese. No one much likes them, and they present a threat to both the US and Russia; for the Iranians, they get to both attack and devastate the Great Satan (the US), and then have the Great Satan nuke the crap out of a bunch of Godless Communist infidels. So long as they don’t get caught, they win all around. They would just have to fool us for a little while - until whomever was POTUS felt enough confidence (or pressure) to launch and hit back at SOMEONE.
The problem is the country would still be broken, really broken for decades. A real dark age literally and figuratively would descend.
The information and studies dating back 50 years are readily available. Whether you chose to make yourself aware of them makes no difference to me. When a major Carrington Event or EMP attack happens it really won’t matter what you or I believe anyway.
No trans, no hormones.
“But an enormous solar flare could do it. I stress enormous.”
Thank goodness we will have a protective blanket of CO2 emissions covering the planet to protect us from those deadly emissions!
This is what I term a "reset". There needs to be a culling, just like in the middle ages, with the Black Death. Sad but true.
Iran-that is why we need to hit Iran and North Korea if this happens. And we need to let them know that. It doesn’t matter who actually made the strike these governments have already stated there positions and have made targets of themselves.
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