ric27
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You need to remember that you aren't any sort of expert on this subject.
Geez, you tell me
Do you think, you can physically take the country's infrastructure down SO far that it takes years to repair?
Given 70-75 people, who will do precisely what you tell them at precisely when you tell them, and where you tell them, You could take this country down to a point that it wil take about 4 weeks to get power back on to 55% of the populace, if the country is lucky.....72 people, less than a quarter million bux and
I would have at LEAST 3 levels of redundancy and reliability. You think thats possible?
3 people in each of 20 cities. And 15 people distributed amongst those same 20 cities, for back-up and redundancy. The country would come down SO hard that it'd take months to get power back to all, and after the first 3 days the depression would set in and our resource demands would be MUCH less than they were before.
Suffice to say, without "giving the enemy ideas" .... by taking down just a few very specific nodes within the Power and Communications Industries, you also get as a bonus, the water systems in the cities you chose, natural gas and oil transmission nationwide (did you know that there is ONE single MAIN pipeline system feeding the NorthEast over 3/4's of its natural gas and petroleum products?) If one selects the cities carefully, one also criples train service nationwide for several days AFTER the power gets restored. Power generation plants are NOT designed to come off line instantly and there would be SOME physical damage. PLUS, refineries which do not shut down in an orderly manner don't come back on line for months.
As interconnected as things are if one takes down the right combo of facilities in the right combo of cities fragile is too robust a description for our infrastructure.