Like I said as long as we immediately level the playing field by launching our own. The question is do we have a leader with the cajones? If I were CiC and we were emp’ed on a continental level I’d do it in a heartbeat. Then we only have to worry about Mexico but without power to industry they have no reason to swarm north anymore other than border raids.
Besides I think only Russia or the ChiComs have the ability to do it on a global scale. One high altitude emp of low yield effect much.
Who would we launch against? The norks?
Would they notice?
If we EMP’d the norks we’d also cause the South Koreans a lot of pain.
If we nuked them South Korea and Japan would get fallout as well. Are we willing to do that?
Meanwhile, every big city burns to the ground. And with them go a lot of the tech talent necessary to stage any sort of recovery. And that’s assuming the Chinese sell us the equipment we’d need to begin with.