China’s battlefield network can deform under attack and reassemble to original state even after huge damage, making it almost unbreakable.
In the Terminator films, humanity launches an all-out assault in 2029 on Skynet’s central node deep within Cheyenne Mountain – only to realise that the artificial intelligence has no single point of failure.
Skynet is not a monolithic system, but a distributed, self-healing network, capable of surviving total infrastructure collapse and resurrecting itself almost instantly.