🚀 go-pugleaf

Over the holidays took a much-needed rest (family went to visit
cousins in Scotland & I was permitted to stay home 8*) & caught up on
some reading. One of the more interesting ones was *War in 2020* by
Ralph Peters.

Published in March of 1991 it missed the breakup of the Soviet Union
though the afterward makes it clear that the author was not surprised.

An interesting sub-plot developed late in the book was that high-tech
weaponry takes humans out of the tactical loop and relegates them to
strategic decisions. Further, if you can remove trust in the weapons
(virus etc.) you can destroy an adversary's capability to defend
himself.

Somewhere in the last few years we seem to have lost Heinlein's "tell
me three times" concept for trust and IMHO much of our difficulties
today stem from this.
					Philosophically,

							Padgett

ps In a modern PC disk information is stored in the CMOS, Partition Table
   and the DOS Boot Record. The code is trivial and given any two, the
   third can be easily reconstructed.