> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm > ........... > "And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United > States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the > entire electromagnetic spectrum". > > US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of > globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems > dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum". > > Consider that for a moment. > > The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, > every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.
They have most of it already. 4 20 meg bombs exploded high in the atmosphere should wreck most electronics with the emp they would set off. The only ones left would have to have some very heavy shielding, like a Faraday cage. > > Are these plans the pipe dreams of self-aggrandising bureaucrats? Or > are they real? Wouldn't be too surprised if it were real, the US military has plans for nearly everything, from invading Andorra to occupying Zimbabwe and everything in between. Besides the effects of EMP on electronics have been well known since the late 50's. > > The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is approved by the > Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very > seriously indeed in the Pentagon. The recent cyber attacks on Estonia is thought to have been a Russian army effort. The Chinese PLA also has been engaging in electronic attacks on Taiwan. So the US and the NATO countries really do need an equivalent electronic military defense. > > And that the scale and grandeur of the digital revolution is matched > only by the US military's ambitions for it........" > Old news. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247106 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
