Excellent post and summary. You could enhance your closing by describing what happens when there is no water, no sewage treatment, no food delivery, no tractors or combines to plant or harvest food, no transportation, no fuel delivery, no natural gas in the pipes, no heat, no air conditioning, no refrigeration, no medicines, no refrigeration, no communications...and no hope of getting the large high voltage transmission transformers replaced in two to five years.
It’s not a pretty scenario. Especially when marauding bands of bad guys form and rove the country side looking for food and ammunition.
“The One Bomb War” (the name of a piece I am writing for NIP)