Warfare Has Changed - Never Develop a Weapon System You Don"t Have a Countermeasure For
One thing I've learned over the years with advanced weapon technologies is that as soon as you develop a superior advanced weapon, your enemy or potential adversaries then start working on a solution.
Likewise if they come up with some sort of a new weapon system, you can bet that you will be working very hard to defend against that in the potential eventuality there is a war and that weapon might be used against you.
If that weapon is a total threat, and could severely impact your civilization, often you move to use Cold War style tactics including surveillance, spying, and covert action to take out that weapon, you might even choose preemption if those other strategies do not work.
Perhaps because of this one thing I've always noted was that you never wish to develop a weapon system that you don't have a countermeasure for, or one that you will not come up with a countermeasure for you in the foreseeable future.
Now then, it's obvious why this is and we know historically that as soon as we create a better weapon, our enemy immediately tries to copy it, and then use it against us.
If your enemy is using an advanced weapon against you and you haven't used it to win the war yet, then you will have increased the number of casualties on your own side.
Do you see that point? Indeed, I'd say that today this is more important than ever, especially considering that Chinese hackers and spies are tapping into our military defense contractors, Pentagon, and other computer systems stealing the plans, ideas, and concepts we come up with to protect our great nation.
Any offensive weapon we create, they also have, and since they can out mass-produce us, we will be in a world of hurt if we don't have a solution for the very weapons we create ourselves.
It doesn't matter if we are talking about air warfare, space warfare, ground conflicts, or even future naval battles.
There is an interesting quote I'd like to put forth to help me make my points here today; "Whosoever can hold the sea has command of everything," by Themistocles in 414 BC.
Now then, wouldn't it be a shame if we created a sophisticated naval weapon which was copied, and produced on a very large scale which created a military advantage for China causing us denial of the sea at choke points around the globe? Personally, and I spend a lot of time creating and doing mind experiments on future weapon systems and I never put anything out there that I don't have an answer for, and whereas perhaps like Leonardo da Vinci's time, another thinker and creator of weapon systems, advanced in his time, I realize that the world is closer together, and military technology is only a click away.
Since our military has trouble keeping secrets, and there are spies in all of our universities, colleges, research facilities, defense contractors, and even at the Pentagon and throughout Washington DC, we have to be very careful.
I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Likewise if they come up with some sort of a new weapon system, you can bet that you will be working very hard to defend against that in the potential eventuality there is a war and that weapon might be used against you.
If that weapon is a total threat, and could severely impact your civilization, often you move to use Cold War style tactics including surveillance, spying, and covert action to take out that weapon, you might even choose preemption if those other strategies do not work.
Perhaps because of this one thing I've always noted was that you never wish to develop a weapon system that you don't have a countermeasure for, or one that you will not come up with a countermeasure for you in the foreseeable future.
Now then, it's obvious why this is and we know historically that as soon as we create a better weapon, our enemy immediately tries to copy it, and then use it against us.
If your enemy is using an advanced weapon against you and you haven't used it to win the war yet, then you will have increased the number of casualties on your own side.
Do you see that point? Indeed, I'd say that today this is more important than ever, especially considering that Chinese hackers and spies are tapping into our military defense contractors, Pentagon, and other computer systems stealing the plans, ideas, and concepts we come up with to protect our great nation.
Any offensive weapon we create, they also have, and since they can out mass-produce us, we will be in a world of hurt if we don't have a solution for the very weapons we create ourselves.
It doesn't matter if we are talking about air warfare, space warfare, ground conflicts, or even future naval battles.
There is an interesting quote I'd like to put forth to help me make my points here today; "Whosoever can hold the sea has command of everything," by Themistocles in 414 BC.
Now then, wouldn't it be a shame if we created a sophisticated naval weapon which was copied, and produced on a very large scale which created a military advantage for China causing us denial of the sea at choke points around the globe? Personally, and I spend a lot of time creating and doing mind experiments on future weapon systems and I never put anything out there that I don't have an answer for, and whereas perhaps like Leonardo da Vinci's time, another thinker and creator of weapon systems, advanced in his time, I realize that the world is closer together, and military technology is only a click away.
Since our military has trouble keeping secrets, and there are spies in all of our universities, colleges, research facilities, defense contractors, and even at the Pentagon and throughout Washington DC, we have to be very careful.
I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.