John Steinbeck wrote his novel "The Moon is Down" and released it in 1942. I read the book years ago. It is available still on Amazon. The story is written about a town in a northern climate that is invaded by a foreign power because that foreign power needed the coal produced there. The town was easily taken and then brutalized by the occupying force to control the townsfolk and gather the coal needed by the invaders. After a while, the occupying soldiers began to miss their families back home and became miserable being there. The town's people began forming a resistance movement and one by one the soldiers of the occupying force began to disappear at the hands of the townspeople. While it was published claiming to be just a made up story, it actually mirrored the NAZI invasion of Norway at the time.
The book had a great affect on me because in my opinion it applies to our nation's current situation of the last decades. Let me explain. The U.S. has been in Iraq and Afghanistan for decades now. We are a foreign power in countries that view us as invaders and see us as cruel occupiers. The U.S. does not see things that way, but the important thing is the people in those countries do see things that way. I cannot believe that as long as the U.S. is in those countries that there will ever be peace. I cannot know what would be a better means of operation, but I do know as long as we are there peace will never breakout. As in Steinbeck's novel, the resistance movements in those countries will continue to kill American soldiers stationed there a few or a lot at a time.
The Iranian general Soleimani was just killed by a drone attack. Iran has vowed harsh revenge. What, where and when it will happen and continue to happen is an open question. What I think will be a part of that revenge is a series of cyber attacks in the U.S. on our financial system and the electrical grids here. That and the deaths of more U.S. soldiers and missile attacks on tankers in the straight of Hormuz.
There are computer programmers at work in places not unlike this image below with cyber soldiers working on ways to electronically attack other nations.
Here is a link to my earlier post on cyber war.
Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2019 and beyond.
The book had a great affect on me because in my opinion it applies to our nation's current situation of the last decades. Let me explain. The U.S. has been in Iraq and Afghanistan for decades now. We are a foreign power in countries that view us as invaders and see us as cruel occupiers. The U.S. does not see things that way, but the important thing is the people in those countries do see things that way. I cannot believe that as long as the U.S. is in those countries that there will ever be peace. I cannot know what would be a better means of operation, but I do know as long as we are there peace will never breakout. As in Steinbeck's novel, the resistance movements in those countries will continue to kill American soldiers stationed there a few or a lot at a time.
The Iranian general Soleimani was just killed by a drone attack. Iran has vowed harsh revenge. What, where and when it will happen and continue to happen is an open question. What I think will be a part of that revenge is a series of cyber attacks in the U.S. on our financial system and the electrical grids here. That and the deaths of more U.S. soldiers and missile attacks on tankers in the straight of Hormuz.
There are computer programmers at work in places not unlike this image below with cyber soldiers working on ways to electronically attack other nations.
Here is a link to my earlier post on cyber war.
Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2019 and beyond.
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