Part of my job is to take care of the computer network at the station. Yeah, I’m an I.T. guy. In fact, I’m basically the I.T. department. It’s not like we have a huge amount of stuff to take care of, but I need to know what’s going on in the PC world and all that threatens it. Updates, viruses, blah, blah, blah… Every morning I purge the web in the pursuit of knowledge.
In the midst of today’s brain feeding, I stumbled onto globalsecurity.org. I had heard of the web site from NPR news reports, but the site just sucked me in. Anything that is a country with the potential for military conflict is examined. It gets worse. They even offer insight as to how possible military conflicts and operations should or might happen in the chance that such events arise.
So when I say worse, I mean scary. It’s always good to have a plan. Even if it’s about war, I think everyone can agree that planning before hand is good. It’s very much like history repeating itself though. I remember when my brother was in training for the air force and the books he would bring home, examining all sorts of details of the military readiness of the U.S.S.R. Today, it’s a bit of the same. Lots of theories and hunches about what to expect. However, there’s more than one country to watch that are a lot smaller and harder to see into.
When I was a little kid, we didn’t play cops and robbers. We played war. Russians against the Americans.