@emerald.book: The Pentagon’s FORTRESS initiative requires ~500 domestic bases to operate fully off-grid for 90 days—officially “resilience,” but really an admission that the homeland is no longer a sanctuary. Iran spends roughly 1% of what the U.S. spends on defense, yet its cyber and proxy capabilities helped drive a multi-billion-dollar overhaul, because the cost of disruption has collapsed: a $20,000 drone against a $1–4 million interceptor, a few dozen hackers against a multi-billion-dollar grid, an underfunded water plant down the road from a base. Iran cannot defeat the U.S. military—but it did something entirely different. Read the full article in bio. #NationalSecurity #DefenseStrategy #AsymmetricWarfare #Cybersecurity #Geopolitics

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