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I think what he's getting at is a valid point. It won't just be rebels against the military. If the rebellion or revolution picks up enough steam, significant e
by curried_haskell 10y ago
I think what he's getting at is a valid point. It won't just be rebels against the military. If the rebellion or revolution picks up enough steam, significant elements of the military will likely defect to the other side and in a very real way the war would be the US military vs itself. Ex-US soldiers, officers, generals, with clandestine support from foreign powers like China and Russia, would be taking on the remaining part of the US military.
Or the US splits and the revolution is turned into a North vs South, East vs West, type of civil war.
- Swizec 10y agoI agree, eventually the military breaks up and starts fighting itself. But you're still essentially fighting the US military. The biggest baddest military in the world. Surely the US military agrees that fighting the US military is a Bad Idea (tm). Point is, civil war is messy. There's no clear right or wrong, good guy or bad guy, it's by definition neighbor killing neighbor, friend against friend, sibling versus sibling. Everyone thinks they are protecting the One True Way Forward to make the country great again.
- pm90 10y agoThe US military is a highly sophisticated war machine but ultimately it requires resources to support its operations. No military can ignore the cold hard facts of logistics, something that many armies have done to their own demise. If there is no continental US to provide the food, materiel or the money to pay for it, I doubt the machine could last very long.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoIf the entire continental US rebels, who exactly are they fighting against? If there is a civil war, you kind of have to assume that each side is going to have access to some of the US's resources.