I find the likelihood of an outside agressor next to nil. Unless nukes are included, defeating America on its on soil would be a nightmare. Now an threat from within, thats more likely and has a much better chance of success.
If you are not being responded to directly, you are probably on my ignore list.
I've been playing a little "World In Conflict" and it got me wondering. I think that if war broke out in America it would be hell for the enemy. I know that just for myself alone I own 3 pistols and 4 rifles. 2 of which are high powered ones. And I know that most of my friends own guns as well. I just think that if an enemy tried to make the rounds down our street it would not be a cake walk. Maybe I'm wrong though. I've never been in a war situation. I kind of also think it could work out that American's have become so dependent on someone to take care of them when it comes to almost any kind of hardship that we could just lay down crying. The old generation of hard fighters are all but gone now. Lately we've become a bunch of pantie waists. Look at how bloated our government has gotten and how quick people are to turn to it for help and you'll see what I'm talking about. I dunno, what do you guys think? It's hard for me to predict.
With all due respect but does Auburn, Alabama have any strategic value that would motivate any enemy to go door to door rather than firebomb it, if they so chose to expend the ordinance?
With all due respect back at you, I suspect you've never been down here before. There is a lot down here, if not just the fact that it is fertile country that can maintain a hell of a lot of livestock as well.
We don't depend too much on others. If there is any area of the country that is more adept at self reliance, it's going to be the southeast.
Just because there are some big buildings in other parts of the country doesn't mean that it's territory the enemy would consider "usable" or valuable.
There will be no war, America will simply sell itself off... "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship."
I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but if there's ever going to be an actual invasion of the continental US, which is extremely unlikely to happen anytime soon, the strategy that would be employed would be focussed on taking over key strategic assets like power plants,major railroads and airports, thus cutting off any potential centers of resistance and forcing them to surrender once they run out of basic supplies. Bigger cities would also be sieged until submission, which is even easier to accomplish simply because more rural areas can supply themselves with food.
Then again i doubt that an actual occupation by force of the more remote areas would even be attempted, simply because it wouldn't be worth the effort. I would be totally sufficient to control the infrastructure (electricity and transportation) plus the major cities to basically control the United States.
Which is true for any country by the way, and to give a recent example is exactly the US strategy for Iraq. What will be left is an uncontrolled hinterland in which insurgents, rebels etc. will have the ability to organize themselves, whose actions would ultimately still only do minor damage to the occupying force, relatively speaking of course.
Iraq is actually a good example to show how conquest and occupation of modern countries would turn out, and that includes your highly unlikely scenario of an invasion of the continental US (You'd get American rebels fighting their occupiers)
Total conquest and control is impossible to achieve, especially since nationalism has become predominant and people identify with their country, not their rulers anymore. That's the case worldwide, so empires in the medieval sense don't exist anymore. People simpy refuse to be ruled by someone who is not part of their nation, or ethnicity.
The biggest problem Americans would face in a full fledged invasion would be adapting to the loss of all services. Without electricity, water, gasoline, hospitals, etc, we would be faced with both a catastrophic "natural disaster" type environment from which to wage our home grown resistance and a military disaster if our federal government and DoD broke down enough to allow such an invasion.
That is the truth. I live in Oklahoma and went through the ice storms. 700k+ people without power/water. I had my grill where I could throw on some coals or wood and boil some ice if I needed and I had plenty of food which I stored outside because it was colder than my icebox. I didn't need to worry about survival because my brother had power and I didn't want my baby to be in the cold - if I don't need to I won't.
But, for the most part, people were panicking. I went to the grocery store to do my normal shopping and people were there buying everything in sight just going insane. And they were panicking. A few times I thought fights were going to break out over milk and such. But, I did think that it would be great for such a disaster to take place as it would weed out all the jackasses.
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I find the likelihood of an outside agressor next to nil. Unless nukes are included, defeating America on its on soil would be a nightmare. Now an threat from within, thats more likely and has a much better chance of success.
If you are not being responded to directly, you are probably on my ignore list.
With all due respect back at you, I suspect you've never been down here before. There is a lot down here, if not just the fact that it is fertile country that can maintain a hell of a lot of livestock as well.With all due respect but does Auburn, Alabama have any strategic value that would motivate any enemy to go door to door rather than firebomb it, if they so chose to expend the ordinance?
We don't depend too much on others. If there is any area of the country that is more adept at self reliance, it's going to be the southeast.
Just because there are some big buildings in other parts of the country doesn't mean that it's territory the enemy would consider "usable" or valuable.
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The sith will destroy us from inside out lol
I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but if there's ever going to be an actual invasion of the continental US, which is extremely unlikely to happen anytime soon, the strategy that would be employed would be focussed on taking over key strategic assets like power plants,major railroads and airports, thus cutting off any potential centers of resistance and forcing them to surrender once they run out of basic supplies. Bigger cities would also be sieged until submission, which is even easier to accomplish simply because more rural areas can supply themselves with food.
Then again i doubt that an actual occupation by force of the more remote areas would even be attempted, simply because it wouldn't be worth the effort. I would be totally sufficient to control the infrastructure (electricity and transportation) plus the major cities to basically control the United States.
Which is true for any country by the way, and to give a recent example is exactly the US strategy for Iraq. What will be left is an uncontrolled hinterland in which insurgents, rebels etc. will have the ability to organize themselves, whose actions would ultimately still only do minor damage to the occupying force, relatively speaking of course.
Iraq is actually a good example to show how conquest and occupation of modern countries would turn out, and that includes your highly unlikely scenario of an invasion of the continental US (You'd get American rebels fighting their occupiers)
Total conquest and control is impossible to achieve, especially since nationalism has become predominant and people identify with their country, not their rulers anymore. That's the case worldwide, so empires in the medieval sense don't exist anymore. People simpy refuse to be ruled by someone who is not part of their nation, or ethnicity.
Since it took Yoda and Mace Windu 3 movies to figure that out, that means we're doomed because we can't sense squat.
But, for the most part, people were panicking. I went to the grocery store to do my normal shopping and people were there buying everything in sight just going insane. And they were panicking. A few times I thought fights were going to break out over milk and such. But, I did think that it would be great for such a disaster to take place as it would weed out all the jackasses.