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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
Please, not President Gingrich...<shudder>
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Besides the fact that if Gingrich, by some unfortunate miracle of American idiocy, got elected President he would jump at the chance to engage in a shooting war with the Chinese, both scenarios also seem to have a second fundamental fallacy besides those already pointed out be Webstral. Are American AD radar systems really connected to the
Internet? That sounds like an absurd premise. And that, even if they were that they could be brought down by Chinese hackers is even more absurd. It presumes that the Air Force lives up to its pejorative of "Air Farce". There are a lot of very bright people working for the USAF and some even know a bit about computer security. Non-secure DOD systems at the Pentagon having been hacked is one thing. Extrapolating from that that all military systems are (stupidly) vulnerable is another.
A more plausible scenario would incorporate an EMP strike to take out radars, but that would destroy the value of Taiwan to China other than as land to grab. What would then be the point of invading "scorched earth"? The Chinese aren't stupid, and they don't do things just for political reasons. There has to be a gain somewhere. They wouldn't start a war with the U.S. that would instantly lose them the economic value of their objective. Nevermind the fact that the U.S. would do to China what we did to Japan in WW2. Or at least try to.