Posted on 02/21/2010 9:10:03 PM PST by bamahead
You’re right about the National Guard not having enough manpower to guard everything. And sadly, with politics as they are, you’re probably right about the rest. The Guard, besides doling out food supplies to civilians here and there, would be positioning combat units and support against any foreign military incursion in a broadly, unprecedentedly ugly scenario.
IMO, there are many personal preparations we can make for nationwide hard times. But one of the wisest would be finding out which neighbors we could get along with—neighbors who have also made preparations for emergencies and possess very calm demeanors (no pride or easy anger that could lead to hysterics). ...even if there are only one or two of ‘em in the whole neighborhood. Poor situations can be more exhausting than most people realize, and most of the exhaustion and other miseries in most neighborhoods won’t come from violence—at least not in most neighborhoods.
Thirst, hunger, injury, illness and exhaustion are much more prevalent in most such cases and places. The television folks do like to concentrate on places like Haiti, though.
My God, it is Y2K all over again. And we all know what damage that did to the world.
I’m currently doing my thesis on cyber warfare, cyber retaliation, cyber aggression & cyber deterrence
The idiots on this panel obviously had done no research into these topics prior to the war game.
Wish they had taken the time to get some people who actually had some knowledge of computers, cyber security & cyber law.
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