• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    A smart, motivated, and malicious individual could have wiped out all of our military leadership in an instant.

    How? Is a foreign actor going to launch an ICBM at Virginia? This was at Quantico, not exactly a place where anybody can enter or even get near.

    Edit because I was curious and checked: the base occupies over 55,000 acres.

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        4 days ago

        The US goes through a threat situation like this every state of the union, if they can’t handle something like that for this, they can’t handle it for that either, and the state of the union is a better target.

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          Sure, I’m not saying it would be easy for an insider threat, I’m just saying there’s options other than an ICBM.