FORTRESS America: Better late than never

 "We should have implemented something like this decades ago."

American Thinker  

"Under FORTRESS, every major military installation in the continental U.S. must be capable of operating off grid for at least 90 days without relying on outside municipal water, fuel, civilian power networks, or supply chains."

"Recently, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced the launch of the FORTRESS initiative.  The goal of this ambitious program is to address concerns that a major war, EMP, or cyber-attack could disable the U.S.’s civilian infrastructure and disrupt global supply chains.

The military loves acronyms: FORTRESS stands for “Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability.”  Survivability?

Yes, survivability.  The Pentagon developed FORTRESS to treat infrastructure resilience as a direct component of military readiness.  Sounds reasonable, but why now?

Several issues, none of them new, initiated DoD action on FORTRESS.

The Loss of “Oceanic Protection”

In the past, we’ve always assumed that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans insulated us from foreign threats.  Sure, there was Venezuela, but President Trump took care of that, and Cuba, well...

The Pentagon finally realized that this assumption was outdated.  They cite long-range precision weaponry that can traverse oceans, global cyber-networks that disrupt the grid, and gray-zone warfare just short of the line that triggers a conventional war.  Also, there are numerous domestic threats, including myriad cells of foreign agents that came in during the presidency of Joe Biden (or at least his handlers).

“Power Is Combat Now”

This quote, attributed to Pentagon official Sean Parnell, emphasizes how much the military currently depends on civilian-controlled electrical grids and power generation.  Without electrical power, critical defense capabilities like communications and logistics collapse.  An enemy only has to disable the civilian grid to cripple command structures and troop mobilization, not to mention the production of military hardware.  The military aims to make every base energy self-sufficient.

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