The cell phone network might be a day 0 target, but Cell phones would be left mostly untouched, they are easy to track/drone strike. Interference would only happen acutely for IED concerns or cqb operations
GPS/Satellite location would be jammed / disabled
Internet connections would be targeted, sea cables, microwave, etc
Electrical systems would be targeted.
Prioritize:
electrical backups
clean water backups
communication backups (point to point fiber, lasers, microwave)
Oddly enough, there was a huge push a while back to prevent Huawei being used in the cell phone network as infrastructure, because it gave China a potential espionage route. No one was thinking “kill switch” during this discussion. And no one was considering US tech in this discussion as a risk either.
I wonder what percentage of Canadian cell phone infrastructure is American?
I suppose I was presuming they wanted the infrastructure intact. Probably easier to shut off the power than to destroy the dam. But this all presumes they’re acting rationally. Invading Canada isn’t rational, so everything else is a question mark too.
Cell phone towers are not critical infrastructure, destroying them is just the cost of war.
Hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, anything that takes a long time to build, would be spared if the intent is to takeover.
Off the cuff invasion scenario:
Jam all gps
Multistike all air force and anti air installations
Emp over military facilities
Destroy key communication points
Destroy power grid
Mine all major roads (cluster mines from the air)
Secure /disable nuclear assets
Cut the population off so they can’t organize, destroy the military, secure critical assets. Since most of the CA population lives within 100km of the boarder the only real pernicious worry will be submarines deployed and further afield military posts in the north.
The cell phone network might be a day 0 target, but Cell phones would be left mostly untouched, they are easy to track/drone strike. Interference would only happen acutely for IED concerns or cqb operations
GPS/Satellite location would be jammed / disabled
Internet connections would be targeted, sea cables, microwave, etc
Electrical systems would be targeted.
Prioritize:
Oddly enough, there was a huge push a while back to prevent Huawei being used in the cell phone network as infrastructure, because it gave China a potential espionage route. No one was thinking “kill switch” during this discussion. And no one was considering US tech in this discussion as a risk either.
I wonder what percentage of Canadian cell phone infrastructure is American?
Most of the Huawei stuff got replaced with Nokia stuff, in Western Canada.
In a invasion we don’t have to think about software kill switches, each tower can be trivially destroyed.
I suppose I was presuming they wanted the infrastructure intact. Probably easier to shut off the power than to destroy the dam. But this all presumes they’re acting rationally. Invading Canada isn’t rational, so everything else is a question mark too.
Cell phone towers are not critical infrastructure, destroying them is just the cost of war.
Hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, anything that takes a long time to build, would be spared if the intent is to takeover.
Off the cuff invasion scenario:
Cut the population off so they can’t organize, destroy the military, secure critical assets. Since most of the CA population lives within 100km of the boarder the only real pernicious worry will be submarines deployed and further afield military posts in the north.