Imagine the disruption in big cities if only 25% of the infrastructure stopped working. Do you want to be near one of those cities when that happens?
What would such a scenario do for our ability to project a military presence around the world?
Imagine Chicago, the entire city, under boil water orders. With 25% of their big step down transformers blown. And those transformers all ‘Made in China’. Even if you put the order in right then it would be months before they got power restored.
I know people who lost power after Katrina. Their power went out on August 29, 2005. Their power didn’t come back on until the week before Christmas. The holdup for them was shortage of transformers. They were country people with a well, gardens and a food pantry. And an MRE distribution center in town. Imagine Chicago after that sort of thing.