[CatHerd]

You ask very good questions. Disturbing ones. Very good observation re drones being the new AK-47, too.

What will we get from the new increased Pentagon budget? Based on what I’ve read so far, it’s what you fear. :(

I hope they will rethink how all that money is spent.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Another thing - Civil Defense. Has that been re-imagined, updated, since the freaking Cold War? What is the posture for that regarding local and state and fed administration and resources. Seems it has fallen to focus on natural disaster oriented events over the years, but nothing else. A year ago there was a tornado hit in a pretty good sized town near me. Thankfully no one was killed or even terribly injured but it did a fair amount of damage and chaos. I don't care what sort of accolades people crowed about on social media and elsewhere, the response by local officials was loaded with hysterics. Guess those emergency response meetings and "tabletop exercises" didn't amount to much after all in spite of the assurances they portrayed. If people will lose their crap over that I can uncomfortably imagine how command and control would break and collapse in the face of deliberate attacks.