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Newt Gingrich Slams War on Terror Strategy

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich expresses alarm that "seven years after 9/11, we have not won."

Suggesting a fundamental re-examination of military strategy, Gingrich warns that the bureaucratic budget decisions being made today "will unilaterally disarm us around 2025 or 2030."
Newt Gingrich Warns of Electromagnetic Pulse Attack

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warns that the United States is particularly vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse attack, which is capable of wiping out an entire energy grid.

"This is a catastrophic threat waiting to happen...North Korea, China and Russia all understand it and are all working on it," he claims.
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danthemango

Posted: 05.09.10, 05:00 AM

worked in chrome, you should try it.

Anteros

Posted: 04.06.10, 05:34 AM

If you're afraid you'll live in a world of fear.

bapyou

Posted: 01.28.10, 11:35 AM

@ jongadel "i've been following newt for years... he's a super smart guy..." He also, in 1978, served his first wife Jackie Battley divorce papers while she lay in a hospital bed recovering from cancer surgery. Gingrich divorced her because (so he said) "She wasn't pretty enough to be first lady." Gingrich then refused to pay alimony or child support for his two children forcing Battley's church to take up a collection for her and the Gingrich children.

Mark Sullivan

Posted: 01.12.10, 09:40 AM

This is not fearmongering. It is looking at hypothetical situations. It is important for our defense officials to be thinking ahead many years to what could be and to be prepared for them. I also believe China or anyone attacking the United States with an EMP weapon or other weapon is unlikely. Our capabilities are still well beyond those of China. We have second, third, fourth and fifth strike capabilities and I believe our strength and capabilities are a deterrent. I am much more concerned about asymmetrical attacks from Muslim nuckleheads with a bomb in their underwear, attempting to kill innocent civilians.

Gabriel Michas

Posted: 10.15.09, 05:04 AM

Faraday shields on equivalent magnitude protections design might help against this indeed serious threat.

cyphi

Posted: 10.12.09, 07:11 AM

I think there's some validity to it. It's smarter to disable the defense systems prior to a mass attack/invasion. The public will be panicked and communications between military divisions would be lost.

jongadel

Posted: 10.03.09, 01:08 PM

i've been following newt for years... he's a super smart guy.... remember, he was a college professor... before... he became a politician this guy really knows his stuff and i'm not a republican or democrat i'm an independent voter

mrlami

Posted: 10.02.09, 11:02 AM

Nothing new... Yet another talk from a politrickster...

skaterdude

Posted: 10.02.09, 02:07 AM

I used to work in a lab where we did electromagnetic interference testing for airplane electronics. To disrupt a moderately hardened piece of electronics, you need a fairly high level of EMI (electromagnetic interference). The good news is that, thanks to the FCC, we do this sort of "hardening" pretty routinely. It turns out that field strength decreases by the SQUARE of the distance from the source. So, an EMP pulse is, by it's nature, an extremely localized phenomena. An EMP pulse that would knock out all the computers in a city would need to be generated by a TREMENDOUSLY huge energy source. Without throwing any numbers around, I doubt there's enough energy available to a determined terrorist to do it. (short of the nuclear idea, mentioned earlier on the thread, but if you've got nukes, why bother with ONLY taking out the computers?) I'm gonna agree with the poster who dismissed this as fear tactics. Of course, if somebody smarter than me knows more, feel free to correct me.

SgtStedanko

Posted: 10.01.09, 06:23 PM

if you fear EMP then push for underground utilities, as for his comment about radiation, that is incorrect, an EMP device is basically a nuclear weapon detonated in the atmosphere, there is still radiation and fallout. It disgusts me that these fear mongers are elected to office. So listening more Knowledge is dangerous so we should nuke everyone to the stone age? I love the fact that he thinks people in the 1880's were ignorant fools that would be incapable of understanding modern devices.

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