pervect wrote:
I think there are technologies that our fictitious nation of Elbonia
can use that will make disrupting their C&C structure a lot more
difficult.

Certainly, but homegrowing them as you suggest below is the work of
decades, not weeks or months.

I would even go so far as to say that investing in a
modern C&C infrastructure would probably be the best first investment
Elbonia could make.

Simply making it modern doesn't reduce it's vulnerability. What does
do so it a lot of hard thinking about it's vulnerabilities, and how to
patch those without introducting too much additional complexity,
cruft, or new vulnerabilities.

Probably the best approach would be to grow their
own experts (rather than to rely on commercial systems of others and
think that they can just buy one).

That approach has to start in the elementary schools... And the last
thing the Elbonian dynasty wants is a well educated middle class.

D.
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