If you think the U.S. is prepared to cope with any big threat that comes its way, guess again.
Share to twitterThe United States outspends every other nation on defense, and as a result has the best trained, best equipped military in the world. The joint force regularly undertakes missions that no other country’s military would be capable of executing.
These contagions, like the current coronavirus outbreak, were naturally occurring events that resulted from spontaneously occurring mutations—often allowing the disease to jump from animals to humans. Today, for the first time in history, it is possible to engineer such mutations in a laboratory, spawning microbes that combine the virulence of seasonal influenza with the lethality of smallpox....
The assumption among many experts is that it is not feasible to build effective defenses against large-scale nuclear attacks because each weapon is so destructive and the cost to an enemy for increasing its arsenal is a fraction of what it would cost to add to defenses. In other words, the “cost-exchange ratio” favors the attacker.
The same remains true for every industrialized nation today, including the United States. However, a December 2018 report from the President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council found that “existing national plans, response resources, and coordination strategies would be outmatched by a catastrophic power outage.
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