Blackout Wars: State Initiatives To Achieve Preparedness Against An Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Catastrophe

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Blackout Wars is about the historically unprecedented threat to our electronic
civilization from its dependence on the electric power grid. Most Americans
have experienced temporary blackouts, and regard them as merely an
inconvenience. Some Americans have experienced more protracted local and
regional blackouts, as in the aftermaths of Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina, and
may be better able to imagine the consequences of a nationwide blackout
lasting months or years, that plunges the entire United States into the dark.
In such a nightmare blackout, the entire population of the United States could
be at risk. There would be no food. No water. Communications, transportation,
industry, business and finance–all of the critical infrastructures that
support modern civilization and the lives of the American people would be
paralyzed by collapse of the electric power grid. Millions could die. How
could a catastrophic blackout happen? Threats to the electric power grid are
posed by cyber attack, sabotage, a geomagnetic super-storm, and
electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from the high-altitude detonation of a nuclear
weapon. Blackout Wars warns that terrorists and rogue states are developing a
revolutionary new military strategy that could exploit all of these threats in
combination, including exploiting the opportunity of severe weather or a geo-
storm, to collapse the national electric grid and all the critical
infrastructures. It would be the fall of American civilization. For the first
time in history, the most dysfunctional societies, like North Korea that
cannot even feed its own people, or even non-state actors like terrorists,
could destroy the most successful societies on Earth–by means of a Blackout
War. Attacking the electric grid enables an adversary to strike at the
technological and societal Achilles Heel of U.S. military and economic power.
Blackout Wars likens this new Revolution in Military Affairs to Nazi Germany’s
Blitzkrieg strategy, secretly developed and tested in low-profile experiments
during the 1930s, sprung upon the Allies in 1939-1941 in a series of surprise
attacks that nearly enabled the Third Reich to win World War II. Just as the
West was asleep to the threat from the Blitzkrieg, so today U.S. and Western
elites are blind to the looming threat from a Blackout War. Read more

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Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (November 25, 2015)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 214 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1517621399
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 91
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.13 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.49 x 11 inches
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