EMP weapons. Electro-Magnetic
Pulse. Even at a height of 30,000 feet, one of these can bring
down the power grid of the entire US. We really need to harden our
power grid, or face a time of REALLY dark ages.
David
"Free
speech is meant to
protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition,
needs no
protection."—Neal
Boortz
On 4/30/2012 6:13 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
H Billy,
OK, but if you drive around with no spare and
have a blowout
20 miles outside of Fresno.........
I simply don't see where "political unity and economic growth"
are issues. Not talking about protecting whole
industries,
just parts of any that we would need in an
emergency.
I still haven't seen any of you scenarios that justify
stockpiling/manufacturing electric transformers.
Maybe I don't understand your definition of emergency.
Or of transformers.
If your scenario is "All exports from China shut down
suddenly with no warning while we are immediately in a
supply-constrained war of attrition", then yes, I can see
how we must be able to immediately manufacture *everything*
we need to run our core economy for an extended period of
time. But I assert that attempting to enforce that would
carry a huge economic and political cost. Would you
disagree?
If the scenario is, "We need to be able to field a
military force overseas for six months relying entire on
domestic manufacturing and stockpiles", then I agree. That
argues for ensuring that munitions (and the industries that
support them) are self-sufficient. But I don't see how you
get from there to electric transformers.
Is your scenario somewhere in the middle? Or are
electric transformers somehow essential for building
missiles?
-- Ernie P.
In case we need them if a war breaks out and we
cannot wait
to redevelop them, which could take months or
even years.
With "spares" in place the only task would be
expansion to
necessary capacity ; the
expertise would be available.
This is entirely consistent with thoughtful "scenarios, realistic
analyses,
and balanced
strategies."
No idea where you see serious problems arising.
We have no
such problems with, say, the strategic petroleum
reserve,
and that is the basic idea. The oil industry does
quite well
and has no complaints.
Billy
==============================
Hi Billy,
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:22, [email protected]
wrote:
> Therefore a spare tire for consumer
electronics, transformers,
> and everything else that we would need if,
say, a Chinese collapse
> results in large scale war, or turmoil in the
Mid East if Israel is hit
> by Iranian rockets and a war like 1973 breaks
out --to use just
> two examples.
>
> Spare tire : Don't leave home without it.
The problem is that everything has tradeoffs.
Saving electronic transformers may not be worth it
if it costs political unity and economic growth.
We need robust scenarios, realistic analyses, and
balanced strategies. Justifying policy by accusing
opponents of ignoring "national security interest"
is the opposite of that. :-)
E
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