Pentagon leaks: US air national guardsman, 21, identified as suspect
theguardian.comIf it's useful, here [1] is the interview with Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder. As per usual most of the questions the news ask him were explained at the start to be part of an active investigation but he does comment on some things being discussed I have seen in a few different threads here on HN.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpZfUtsXgko [video][34 mins]
Why is the Pentagon not a giant honeypot / decoy? They paint a huge target on their back. You don't want to advertise your core infra somewhere obvious. You need your core infra in obscure locations where people don't look. Military strategy 101.
Destroying the entire Pentagon would have no meaningful effect on US military power unless it killed some important leadership.
As an attacker, you'd have some symbolic victory and maybe a few months of diminished function, but you'd also trigger a major military operation that would certainly destroy you. There's no upside.
Or you'll trigger a military operation against a completely unrelated party because the President and your family are golfing buddies.
They should convert it into condos, not tell the enemy, and move command and all operations to a small section of Apple Park. No one would dare assault Apple Park.
Why not? Apple headquarters looks like it's equipped with unknown weapons and could take flight at any moment. Their plan to hide their saucer -style UFO isn't as secret as they think.
Their shields of smugness are impenetrable to conventional weapons. It is somewhat of a coincidental miracle that light doesn't bounce off them.
The Pentagon is full of think tanks and high level policy makers and paper pushers with command stripes all the way down to their pantlegs. They stuff they deal with is pretty much the military at its highest possible level of abstraction (though obviously also at its highest level of Intel clearance).
Any of the actual command and control rooms you are probably thinking of are much more likely to be buried under a mountain in Colorado somewhere or simply in the complexes of actual military bases than they are to be in the Pentagon itself.
What "core infra" do you imagine is at the Pentagon?