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I am pretty sure a civil war is nearly impossible in the US in the modern age. Something about mechanized warfare... Whoever gets the military wins any open conflict; and the regular military won’t split along state lines like it did in the Civil War. Dunno about the NG units, but I don’t think they’d split off by state either.

You could have insurgency and terrorism, but without a hope of intervention it would be ultimately futile. And who would intervene in the US? China?

Even worse, it might cut cable service - then there would be an uprising!

I am assuming you would fight for where you live or where you are from, but it would be hard to do.The military would disband because there would be no central government and well we would fight guerrilla style withe the guns we have most people don;t have military weaponry though some do. I guess those who do would be the generals. ;)I mean you wouldn't fight in your military unit with people who are not on your side or say you are stationed in Cali but from Nebraska, you'd prolly go home to fight. During the first civil war it was democrats in the south and republicans in teh north, agriculture and slavery in the south, textiles and industry in the north. Everyone is mixed in together now so how would you win the turf, kind of hard to split a nation and actually have a civil war without land to live in if you win. At least I would think. The underlying of most war is the land under your feet when you win. After you get the space to live you make your ideals the lay of the land but it cannot work here now with the mix.

Everybody is thinking of the US Civil War — which was a specific type of civil war (a regional secession movement).

I agree with you, Ray. There is no regional component to this conflict to crystalize it along historically familiar lines. It’s much more likely to be civil unrest. A renewed interest in civilian militias (which the Media will portray as Cults or Organized Crime). Widespread civil disobedience (including tax evasion).

Maybe closer to that schlockey Kevin Costner movie, “The Postman”, but without the post-apocalyptic overtones.

I am pretty sure a civil war is nearly impossible in the US in the modern age. Something about mechanized warfare...

There is allegedly a Chinese saying that you can conquer a country on horseback, but you can't rule it on horseback. The same holds true for tanks. Eventually the tax collectors and the regulators have to get out of the tanks. Then they're vulnerable. The object is not to take on the Army. They're not the enemy. The object is to take on the real enemy.