If our complex weapons systems don't work as we cross the mythical 1/1/00 line, so what? Who can threaten us? Who or what can attack us? The One World Government battalions? Russia? Last I looked, we still have two very effective moats & Russia is pretty much face down in the mud... starting over from 1917.
Quite correct. And that is another reason that the US is often seen as a safe haven for investor's wealth, in whatever form that may take.
The only threat that I worry about are attacks on our infrastructure, electronic, or physical. It is not without justification that there are efforts underway to deal with biological and chemical terrorism, essentially a poor man's nuclear weapon.
If there are problems overseas, some may see the US as being to blame (since it was our technology that caused it), and certainly wouldn't shy about looking for some "payback". Besides, attacking the US, verbally or physicall, has usually been a great means of distracting a nation's population from their domestic problems.
As for military logistics, except for spare sparts and ammunition, there aren't many things the military isn't able to obtain off the shelf in the civilian economy. And they will have first dibs on anything that is needed to preserve general good order and security (like diesel and lubrication products). |
