The United States has this massive vulnerability in its military that's been known about for a while: total dependence on GEO satellites.
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Those satellites are highly vulnerable. Their delta-V stores are needed for orbital maintenance.
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But they're very hard to get to... only China, Russia, and the ESA can reasonable send satellites into GEO.
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But now with the ties our incoming administration has to Putin, this means that that the balance of power in space has shifted dramatically.
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We've known for a while now that any large scale conflict would spread into space, if not start there. But now we're basically immune.
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Look at what has happened historically when an autocrat controls a military that is immune to opposition. This is not normal.
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Actually cruise missiles will work over land just fine - they can use tercom for navigation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
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It's not the navigation, it's receiving the targeting orders and the preceding chain of intel.
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Ah, well those topics I do not pretend to be qualified on. I agree that we are overly dependent on GPS though, but my
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worries are more about the civilian sector. Employ a jammer in a major city & you could produce chaos. So many civilan
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applications are now dependent on it, even some ATMs are dependent on it!
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P.S. I like your description Emily of the State :)
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