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In any event, one of the first profitable investments for Elbonia
might be a modern C&C infrastructure that will be hard to monitor,
spoof, or take down.

All this talk about communications misses the point somewhat. The
Americans open most of their imperial conquests by dropping a GBU-28 into
the victim country's central command bunker. Robust communications aren't
all that much use when there's no one left to give the orders.

The goal for Elbonia should not be robust communications alone but rather
to develop a heavily distributed command system that isn't particularly
vulnerable to the kind of golden-BB decapitation strikes that the Americans
have perfected. This is, however, only going to be possible for values of
'Elbonia' along the lines of India, China or the EU.

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conclusion that the Bush administration will go to any lengths to deny
reality." -- Charley Reese