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To: CodeToad
China has no ability to wage war in the US. It’s silly to even contemplate it.

I guess it depends on your definition of war.

It has excellent cyber war potential; arguably already being used against us.

It likely has the ability to take out most of our satellite space resources. We depend on those a great deal.

It is, at minimum, studying how to take out our electric grid and communications network. It may have the capability to do that. We have been negligent in developing robust protections for them.

Are those capabilities included in your assessment?

17 posted on 10/08/2019 6:31:04 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
marktwain:" It is, at minimum, studying how to take out our electric grid and communications network.
It may have the capability to do that.
We have been negligent in developing robust protections for them."

The negligence in mandating protections of electronic, communications,
and electrical systems has been both corporate and governmental issues.
This is due primarily to concerns about who should bear the expense of such protections: business or government.
Have we already forgotten the 2013 incident in California whereby transformers were shot by a gunman,
and this incident led to almost cascading collapse of the electrical system in the Silicon Valley.
Some call it vandalism, some call it terrorism, but regardless, it demonstrates the level of our vulnerability.

See: "Attack on electric grid raises alarm (LA Times ^ | February 6, 2014 )"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3120382/posts

18 posted on 10/08/2019 9:48:58 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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