“And again, I point to the fact that any gov unafraid to ruthlessly bomb anything from sky and sea WILL win over those rebels in this day and age”
You mean like how Afghanistan and Iraq were pacified? The way cartels in Mexico were neutralized? lol
It’s a fools errand to try to fight them on their terms, with a similar force in the field. You don’t go try to dogfight F-15s as an insurgent. You kill the pilot with a snub 38 as he is gassing his car on the way home.
A squadrom commander gets a photo of his daughter in the mail. She is walking into the school. Crosshairs are drawn on her.
A geeky drone operator in Vegas is in a bar. A smoking hot 23 year old woman is really into him. She asks what he does. Drunkenly, he tries to impress her by saying he’s a drone pilot at Nellis. He explains to her that drone pilots are fully qualified pilots too. She screws his brains out that night. She asks him to meet her somewhere the next time he’s off.
He is shot dead as he gasses his car. The assailant was a 25 year old man. The older brother of the girl from the bar. They tracked him carefully. They were in Vegas on a mission with a 357 and one box of bullets. You see, their father was killed by a predator drone strike.
Five assembly line workers are murdered in a coordinated sniper attack as they walk into the Martin missile assembly plant that builds the Hellfire missiles. 30% of the workforce quits. The miltary has to secure locations they never dreamed of.
Artillery units are bitter at being asked to fire non precision HE into an American city. Desertions are rampant with crew served weapons. The “loyal” units ust be carefully vetted for locals from the state being attacked.
Tanks are thirsty. The fuel trucks that supply them are driven by the likes of Jessica Lynch. Tanks cannot find a target, but fuel truck drivers are sniped wholesale. Some by freelancers belonging to no organization. They were aa leaderless cell of one and simply saw a target of opportunity.
No,,a resistance movement would not need F-15s or Artillery. All of these examples are happening somewhere in the world right now. Nazis couldnt stop them, we cannot, nobody can. Such wars are unbeliveably violent, and should be avoided at all costs,,,,, except the loss of freedom.
It is the acme of evil that our government is headed straight for despotism and deep corruption. But no, they could not defeat us.
Our entire military was almost ground to hamburger in iraq, which is about the size of Texas. No dice.
and boys and girls, that is the way it is done............
Especially for white men from the countryside and suburbs. Everybody knows those sumbitches make very unreliable Communists and have to be watched like a hawk. They just don't have the right 'tude at all.
....but fuel truck drivers are sniped wholesale. Some by freelancers belonging to no organization. They were a leaderless cell of one and simply saw a target of opportunity.
This is called Generation 4 War .... a general's nightmare. Guerrilla actions a la the French maquisards and Serbian anti-Nazi guerrillas were Gen 2. Al-Anbar and Sadr City were, and Afghanistan is, Gen. 3. Gen. 4 is what the Al Q'aeda Salafists have wet dreams about, but their plans keep getting interrupted by Hellfire missiles.
Tons of veterans -- 10 years' worth -- know all about Gen. 3 war now. And they have knowledge of how Gen. 4 is supposed to work.
Yamamoto and Kipling were right. Invade America, wage war on America, which is her People, and you will die, along with your troops in the field.
But to the point. Leave the pilot alone. In such a hypothetical situation, the insurgents just shoot every freeping politician who calls for "gun control". This is what the Lib politicians fear.
“Our entire military was almost ground to hamburger in Iraq, which is about the size of Texas. No dice.”
None of us here even the lurkers wish for any of this to come to pass, or are advocating any violence I’m sure of that ... but with your above comment I would add;
Vietnam is about the same size as California, even has rice paddies. lol.