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The Grid Is the Battlefield Nobody Budgets For

Jun 20, 2026 by P. Nordvik

Electricity grids used to be domestic plumbing. Cross-border interconnectors turned them into instruments of alignment, large power transformers turned them into strategic bottlenecks with two-year lead times, and remote attacks turned them into targets.

Stockpile the boring hardware

Transformer reserves, black-start capacity and manual-operation drills are the grid equivalents of ammunition stockpiles. States fund fighter squadrons on shorter lead times than they accept for the transformers their bases depend on.


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