[templar]

Kill the satellite links and you can't work remotely from India.

If the satellite links were killed today, the country would come to a standstill with our current level of outsourcing. It will get more serious in the future as we contiue to transfer vital economic and business funcitons to the control of sources outside our borders. This makes sabotage of the international links a viable military strategy to use against US by anyone smart enough to coordinate some serious hacking and sabotage. Let's keep this idea secret between ourselves though, we wouldn't want to give any of our Islamic friends any ideas. Or our Chinese friends either, for that matter.

[Myrddin]

If we make the telecom links more expensive, the critical business will move back to the U.S. in a controlled fashion to recover the economic advantage. As long as telecomm is dirt cheap, the outsourcing will continue full bore. As you noted, a hard cut of the links would bring the U.S. to its financial knees overnight.

[Dr Warmoose]

This makes sabotage of the international links a viable military strategy to use against US by anyone smart enough to coordinate some serious hacking and sabotage. Let's keep this idea secret between ourselves though, we wouldn't want to give any of our Islamic friends any ideas. Or our Chinese friends either, for that matter.

Isn't Cuba and Iran blocking/jamming US satellite communications right now?