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To: RoosterRedux
One of the big problems in CWII is that there are no geographical battle lines (except perhaps those drawn by the Left's protests on college campuses and city streets).

This time we have to figure out how to fight an ideological enemy on abstract battle fields unless and until we can force the battle out onto physical terrain.

This renders a traditional military approach useless initially.

It is a psyops war and, as yet, our side has no army except the ragtag string of conservative websites and speakers/thinkers.

We haven't even developed or considered the development of a command structure or how we will fight this war.

12 posted on 02/25/2019 3:22:05 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Re: “We haven’t even developed or considered the development of a command structure or how we will fight this war.”

That’s because Conservatives have had no consequential national leadership since we allowed the Democrats to destroy Newt Gingrich in 1995.


17 posted on 02/25/2019 3:34:21 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: RoosterRedux
our side has no army except the ragtag string of conservative websites and speakers/thinkers.

The word conservative has lost it's meaning. Line 10 of us up and we'd have 10 different definitions.

20 posted on 02/25/2019 3:59:33 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: RoosterRedux

Yes. The right is militarily disorganized. Organizing online is dangerous.

That said, there are militias in each state that would attract recruits. The NRA could be a rallying point. There are historical organizations such as the Sons of the Confederacy. There are a large number of veterans who could lead. Federal and National Guard units would have divided loyalties. Kurt Schlicter has gamed these options very well.

The geographical nature of CW II is an interesting point. Where and how to fight?

I would expect red states to secede so external boundaries would be established. Home guards would need to suppress the internal leftest threat within each state. College campus’ could be neutralized with little threat of harming a friendly.

The big pictures is that the left is concentrated on islands that could be surrounded. Power, food and water could be cut off.

I always thought the Second Amendment would be the tripwire for CW II, but the causes of conflict are multiplying. The threat to election integrity is looming large. The GND and its threat to private property is a potential cause. Suspension of the Bill of rights under an national emergency decree is a possibility.


21 posted on 02/25/2019 4:00:01 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: RoosterRedux

War itself has undergone serious “paradigm shifts” that we have yet to resolve. The concept that won us the Cold War, “Qualitative Advantage” renders the population as a National Asset obsolete as a concept. Technology makes a human population a liability rather than an asset and renders the enemy population even more of a liability. So indiscriminate bombing of cities becomes accepted. It is against this context that we must apply our conjectures. When “Geography is always the reason Ideology is just the excuse” there is a complex interaction at play. I do believe it works out in “cities being death traps”. So there actually are some geographical fault lines.


24 posted on 02/25/2019 4:35:00 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“Red Dawn” Wolverines...


36 posted on 02/25/2019 5:00:51 AM PST by octex
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To: RoosterRedux
Excellent points.

Meanwhile, the left has hundreds or maybe thousands of loosely affiliated groups doing battle every day. David Horowitz does an excellent job of cataloging them at Discover the Networks.

37 posted on 02/25/2019 5:03:41 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: RoosterRedux
One of the big problems in CWII is that there are no geographical battle lines

Civil War II would probably look more like the English Civil War rather than the American Civil War. The English Civil War was generally fought along class lines and rural areas vs. cities. The industrial and merchant classes and most English cities favored Parliament, while the King mostly found support from the nobility and in rural communities. A hot CWII could see a return to classic siege warfare - the practice of surrounding a city for weeks or months, before launching the attack.
56 posted on 02/25/2019 5:31:16 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: RoosterRedux

“We haven’t even developed or considered the development of a command structure or how we will fight this war.”

The Left can raise a mob of Antifa and be out there trashing the streets in a matter of hours. We have no such organization or method of organizing. We have many patriots, and many weapons, but no organization. Just sayin...


68 posted on 02/25/2019 5:54:25 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: RoosterRedux

“We haven’t even developed or considered the development of a command structure or how we will fight this war. “

Fight fire with fire:

The Left’s most successful victory was their “long institutional march” started decades ago.

They took over the Institutions: media, education, courts, etc.

Taking back the media and education institutions would be a good place to start, stand our ground and fight.


69 posted on 02/25/2019 5:58:11 AM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Good points. Somehow the typical, naïve and ignorant Liberal must be made to realize that they are the Useful Idiots of the Left/Communists. They must realize that they are being used and what they are blindly supporting is detrimental to them.


86 posted on 02/25/2019 7:33:27 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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