Lack Of Security For Technology Diminishes United States

One more example of national suicide.

[From article]
The application of new technology revitalized sagging military systems in the United States by acting as a force multiplier. Suddenly we could do things the enemy couldn't do. By 1982 these new capabilities and platforms will put to the test: Israel and Syria battled over the Bekaa Valley where hundreds of Israeli warplanes (F-15s, F-16s, F-4s and Kfirs) tangled with Syrian warplanes (MiG-21s, MiG-23s, MiG-25s, and Su-25s). The result was a box score that could have put the Washington Nationals into the World Series: nearly 90 to 0 -- that is, no Israeli plane was shot down in an air-to-air encounter (two were lost to ground fire) and approximately 90 Syrian planes, including the Mach 3 MiG 25, were knocked out. A number of new technologies contributed to the huge win, but most important was the “look down-shoot down” radar in American-made F-15s.
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It would be 20 years before the Soviets caught up – and by then they weren’t Soviets.
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Nothing could be more dramatic than the decisive defeat of an empire based on technology.
So it would seem to make sense for the United States to protect technology to its utmost, to prevent the rise of a capable competitor or adversary that would be able to undermine the newly founded Pax Americana.
Make no mistake about it: Pax Americana is, in the author's opinion, good for the world as long as America supports democratic values and champions human rights.
But any thought that the Pax Americana would persist turns out to be, at best, wishful thinking. America's century has gone in the dumpster largely because we have squandered our technology by proliferating it abroad.
Looking at a modern Russian or Chinese factory one will see the same equipment, or even better equipment, than might be found in the United States. CAD-CAM, robotics, advanced autoclaves and isostatic presses, networked systems or supercomputers -- and much more -- can be found promoting military production outside the United States.
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We are a country that has squandered a good part of our technological leadership by putting some of our best manufacturing abroad, and some of our most sophisticated systems in China and Russia, taking a great risk and making a bad bet on the future.
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All of this has de-Americanized our technology and added to our vulnerability as America's critical infrastructure now is exposed to exploitation and existential risk in the form of cyber spying and cyber-attacks.
But perhaps the biggest risk is the approaching neutralization of our conventional war fighting systems. America, as a democratic country, cannot fight wars where the best it can hope to achieve is a draw,
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America has to wake up to a threat it has largely created on its own by failing to protect its technological edge. Depending on profits as we export technology and jobs will not save us.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/technology_security_the_profit_disconnect.html

February 17, 2016
Technology Security: The Profit Disconnect
By Stephen D. Bryen and Shoshana Bryen