“If the adversary were Russia and the goal was to prevent U.S. retaliation,” he explained, “command centers and intercontinental ballistic missile sites would be hit first. A different kind of attacker, especially a rogue actor, might focus instead on population centers or symbolic locations.”
That distinction pulls attention away from obvious megacities and places it squarely on smaller, lesser-known locations whose strategic value far outweighs their population.
