Another way to give this article perspective:
Imagine you are a fairly small country with a fairly small army, but you have nuclear weapons. Now imagine another country with low WW I style technology is sending in a military force that is five times the number of people in your entire population.
What do you do? You nuke them, of course.
There is no “tit for tat” in self defense. You punch me, I punch you, etc.
IOW, if you are gonna attack someone, make sure you are better armed than they are.
...and have your affairs in order.
Or in the words of the great 0bama, "If you bring a knife, we will bring a gun." He is so smart. All bow down to the great 0bama!
I see you play ‘Cybernations’. (-: