[expatpat]

This makes me nervous. The fact is: the US Armed Forces are more dependent on electronics than any other country, and this is the last weapon we ought to want to see being used. All of these weapons become available to others after a while.

[Prince Caspian]

Every measure has a potential counter-measure. By the time our enemies have it, we will have perfected the counter-measure. The game isn't "who has the best gadgets." It is "who has the will and the wealth to continue to run the race of scientific R&D the fastest and the longest."

[Physicist]

The fact is: the US Armed Forces are more dependent on electronics than any other country, and this is the last weapon we ought to want to see being used. All of these weapons become available to others after a while.

Will not using them prevent other countries from developing them? If we are ahead of the curve on developing them, you can bet we'll be ahead of the curve on defending against them. For now, we're the only ones who can realistically test such a defense.

[Dog Gone]

The fact is: the US Armed Forces are more dependent on electronics than any other country, and this is the last weapon we ought to want to see being used.

A non-lethal way to cripple the enemy?

If not using them would prevent other countries from not using them, your argument might be good. The truth is that our enemies will even use civilian airlines as weapons, and we'd never do that, either.

[Blackyce]

They will become available to others regardless. They're really not that complicated. Eventually all of our technology will have to be shielded. Thats not that complicated either, its just really expensive.

[Numbers Guy]

The fact is: the US Armed Forces are more dependent on electronics than any other country, and this is the last weapon we ought to want to see being used

Most of our military electronics are hardened against EMP because of the fear of a nuclear weapon's EMP effects. As time goes by, more and more of our electronics will be thus hardened, and will be resistant to EMP, via nuke or pulse. Not only our our offensive capabilities here way ahead of the rest of the world, so are our defensive capabilities.