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Old 10-18-2006, 23:29 PM   #2 (permalink)
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A noted Chinese theorist on modern warfare, Chang Mengxiong, compared China's form of fighting to "a Chinese boxer with a keen knowledge of vital body points who can bring an opponent to his knees with a minimum of movements". It is like key acupuncture points in ancient Chinese medicine. Puncture one vital point and the whole anatomy is affected.
That's very nice. Unfortunately the other guy has a gun, and a scope, and is camouflaged, with night vision.

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I Electro-magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack
China and Russia are two potential US adversaries that have the capability for this kind of attack. An EMP attack can either come from an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), a long-range cruise missile, or an orbiting satellite armed with a nuclear or non-nuclear EMP warhead. A nuclear burst of one (or more) megaton some 400 kilometers over central United States (Omaha, Nebraska) can blanket the whole continental US with electro-magnetic pulse in less than one second.
Heh, what do you think will happen if someone launched a nuclear tipped ICBM/SLBM at central US? EMP is the least of their worries.

Everything else in that article is not even worth responding to.
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