Interesting reading if nothing else. The best point made is about how none of the research is public; without real reproducible steps it may as well be a hoax.
If so, it's the best path to a directed energy weapon I've heard of. Using those lasers that can conduct electrons and some of these would pretty much be a plasma rifle.
In short, give the USSA a taste of it's own medicine. They can bankrupt the empire through asymmetric counters. It is worth noting this is also the strategy of the Arabian insurgency. Bankrupt the empire.
