holy shit.... yeah man. if they didn't work would you die??? I have a serious feeling the next major catastrophe in America could easily be caused by one large EMP. Many many countries have this technology now. It could easily be deployed by a naval ship and take out 2/3s of America's power grid. Major cities would turn into death traps with mass violence and anarchy. Shit would get so real... Major financial networks of information would fail and be eradicated. It would literally cause all out civil chaos worse than any other disaster in our history. I don't think we are quite at the point of Nuclear War, but I certainly think there's gonna be a period of technological warfare before we even get deep into the Nuclear Warfare. Have you ever seen the movie Fight Club?... At the end of the movie, the credit union buildings were blown up... Countless people would have all details of any debt they ever owed completely erased. Money, literally disappearing. Imagine that on a nationwide scale....
An EMP is very unlikely to take down our power grid. Even if it did, it would only be a small portion of it and it would be repairable. And you can be sure that the erasing of money like in Fight Club wouldn't happen. Again, at most a little bit would be lost. But the places that have major amounts will have their systems guarded from an EMP.. which as aforementioned, isn't difficult to do. The fact that many countries have had the technology to launch an EMP attack for decades should be enough to let you know that our government has prepared things to mitigate as much damage as possible from it. And there wouldn't be multiple emp blasts. The attackers would have one chance because a high emp blast will ionize the stratosphere, which would make further blasts ineffective. So the blast would have to be MASSIVE to affect the area sizes some people here are mentioning. Very few nations could do this, and certainly no terrorist cells could do it. And like I said, another nation doing this is going to have to answer to the US retaliation, which would likely be nuclear (which is also going to be an EMP). Some of you guys should read up on EMP myths. Like how people say it would render all newer cars useless... that's not true, the vast majority of vehicles will keep running. Natural gas will continue to be pumped because you can bet they're protected. Many small electronics would be unaffected, and even more complex electronics that are turned off or removed from a power source will have a significant chance of being unaffected.
Any invasion is possible but I highly doubt it would be successful. For some reason I always forget this but the US is actually a pretty big country. Hell, Texas is basically the size of western Europe. I think that the sheer size of the US is just too overwhelming for other countries. The Size Of Texas Compared To The Size Of Europe
EMP devices need to be extraordinarily high up to work effectively, aka on a missile. The USs missile defense system would have that shit blown up so quickly.
Is it possible for us to be attacked? Sure Is it possible for us to be invaded? Very slim chance another army would touch are soul Would any country attempt it? No one has the balls to try Every time a country whispers a thought of starting war with us I can just picture Obama sitting back in his office smoking a blunt laughing and saying "these motha fuckas must not know who we are, we're back to back world war champions bitch, I wish a ni**a would try". I mean our entire country laughs at North Korea when they make there monthly bomb threats
I agree with those who say your biggest risk is from within.... The geographical size, distrust of your own government, divisiveness within political motivations and the underlying tension between the makers and takers, makes for a few of the components that cause people to rise. If there ever was an invasion of the US, it would be a snow globe of rockets and nukes.
I'm sure it could happen. But this country would have to be a really developed country with enough resources and technology. They would have to either figure out how to knock out our surveillance or have enough missiles to prevent us from taking them all out before they reach us.
We have military powers and weapons that are of unbelievable intelligence. Also all the rednecks and black people that will surely fight with their weapons. I mean everyone has atleast one gun. And i know if they invaded, me and my dad would sit in my third story with two of our winchester 300 magnum's and pick muthhhha fuckas off. i can picture it now a chinese military invades chicago and then they see no army but hundreds of street gangs with ak47's and mac's and tech9's spraying at their asses. no one could do it. the end.
Sooner or later it'll be possible..... And A lot of people in here have a pretty askew view on war, I assure you all, if war ever happens to reach our shores, many will suddenly come to the realization that it is nothing like what they imagined, and will probably shit their draws for lack of better words.