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by smt88 1165 days ago
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.

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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.