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Just had a guy try and kick down our door!
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Jhagiti Tyran
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#101 - 2012-04-02 07:31:48 UTC
Garreck wrote:
While the prospects of a modern civil war in the US are horrible to contemplate, I have to look at this and wonder what the US military has done to give you such confidence in its capacity to put down an insurgency.


The US military is barely competent in certain areas but sheer weight of materiel would crush an insurgency. Sure they wouldn't be able to completely suppress people creeping around and planting a few bombs or stop the occasional sniper or ambush but any kind of attempt to overthrow even local authority, let alone government authority would end in a bloodbath.
Garreck
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#102 - 2012-04-02 07:58:09 UTC
Jhagiti Tyran wrote:
The US military is barely competent in certain areas but sheer weight of materiel would crush an insurgency. Sure they wouldn't be able to completely suppress people creeping around and planting a few bombs or stop the occasional sniper or ambush but any kind of attempt to overthrow even local authority, let alone government authority would end in a bloodbath.

Insurgencies and counter-insurgencies aren't won or lost by force of arms. They're both a fight for the heart of "the people." Insurgencies set up support mechanisms by winning over people, and counter-insurgencies undermine insurgencies by marginalizing them in the eyes of people.

In my own estimation, an insurgency would fail in the US not because of the strength (or mass of materiel) of the military, but because the people are way too lazy to support or tolerate an insurgency. Gotta keep the welfare checks and free child care (public schools) goin' strong! That's probably a devisive statement, but honestly the average American cares way more about living a quiet and comfortable life (which a government facilitates) than actually standing up for words written on a piece of paper a couple hundred years ago.