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Right, but there's too many doors Tanks can go through some of the doors, especially as long as you know there isn't a basement. So if you have a small segmen
by dmoy 3y ago
Right, but there's too many doors
Tanks can go through some of the doors, especially as long as you know there isn't a basement. So if you have a small segment of a population you need to go through doors on, sure.
But if it's enough of the population, then tanks don't work to enforce the laws.
- spacecadet 3y agoI dunno, you roll out all of the armored tank division, it doesn't have have to be 1:1...
- dmoy 3y agoSure but there's like 5000 total tanks, and 80,000,000 houses (not including multi unit buildings). It doesn't scale. The military as a whole doesn't work well as a police trying to enforce laws, but even if it did, it wouldn't be the tanks. It would be door to door with infantry.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Sure but there's like 5000 total tanks, And 7000 IFVs, and 15,000 APCs, and 25,000 Mine Protected Vehicles, and also a bunch of fixed and rotary winged piloted and unpiloted aircraft carrying PGMs, all of which can go through specifically chosen doors, and, as with the tanks, all of which can send something through many specifically chosen doors (or windows, walls, whatever) in a fairly short period of time. Not good for arresting people, bringing them to trial, and providing due process, but that's not the only means of raising the expected cost of non-compliance with the law so as to coerce compliance.
- ben_w 3y agoI suspect the US army would very upset with a government that tried to use it to enforce an unpopular law. It's a volunteer force. Might simply refuse the orders as unlawful, might repeat 1861, depending on the law. I'm told "fragging" comes from the weapon of choice used by conscripts in Vietnam against unpopular commanding officers.
- spacecadet 3y agoI was only trying to be funny, but I agree.
- spacecadet 3y agoI know, but now Im interested in the effective fear factor of a single M1 against an American suburb.