Posted on 11/29/2012 5:27:14 PM PST by djf
This question originally appeared on Quora. It was taken from Quora's "hypothetical battles" topic, where readers "can ask questions and get answer on fighting that wouldn't likely or ever happen in real life."
Answer by Jon Davis, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps:
These are the accounts of the Second American Civil War, also known as the Wars of Reunification and the American Warring States Period. ... Here are the states that held the greatest strategic value from day one. They have the ability to be self-sufficient, economic strength, military strength, the will to fight, and the population to support a powerful war machine.
California Texas New York
Others that have many of the qualities that gave them an advantage are also listed.
Washington Colorado Illinois Virginia Florida Georgia
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North Dakota, if they could harness Minot AFB and all its assets. I don’t think they’d go for state-on-state combat though, they’d just take out a bunch of overpopulated blue counties across the country.
I’ll fight as an insurgent here in CA on the side of Texas, but I’ll resist becoming a Cowboys fan to the death.
North Dakota, if they could harness Minot AFB and all its assets. I don’t think they’d go for state-on-state combat though, they’d just take out a bunch of overpopulated blue counties across the country.
Alot of guys have gone through Ft Lewis, and after their service, decided they liked it so much here, they stayed.
You always hear about the Seattle liberals and whackos.
You don’t hear so much about the retired special forces and Navy guys who live down the block...
But they’re here. And ready to go!
Texas because it has its own power grid and can turn off a huge chunk of the power to California with a few key strokes, which would crash the other 49 states’ interconnected power grids. Game over in about 15 minutes...
Of the 10 largest ports by tonnage, Texas has four of them (#s 2,3,5,and 8) Louisiana has three of them (#s 1, 6, and 9), California one (#4), W.Virginia (# 7), and Alabama, (#10), so ports are available to the South.
New Hampshire if they had Meldrim Thompson Jr. back at the helm.
BTW, that isn’t supposition. Texas used the same infrastructure to SHIELD a huge part of the country (esp the West Coast) from a cascading power failure on the East Coast about a decade ago...
Texas ... but they would not fight alone ... we Arizonians would side with them
Texas ... but they would not fight alone ... we Arizonans would side with them
The power that’s bringing this message to you from my keyboard is....
hydroelectric.
Washington also has three or four refineries, and we are alot closer to Alaska than California is!
So we have to send out a few boats and urge the tankers to come here...
Urge them nicely, I mean!
THAT was easy. LOL!
But how much ordnance and fuel are there?
The problem with Texas is nobody there knows how to drive in the snow.
A lot of people in New York don’t know how to drive. And most cabbies won’t drive that far out of state.
Both Washington and Oregon also have the Rock mountains to the east. But they would depend on bio fuels and electric cars. The have built a few roads since the Donner pass thingy.
And if the BCS was in charge we would never really be sure who won anyway.
Oh, what good is a navy against Kansas.
Texas
Texans “Lee’s favorite shock-troops”
“There never were such men in an army before. They will go anywhere and do anything if properly led.” - ( General Robert E. Lee in a letter to General John Bell Hood, May 21, 1863)
One of his aides approached him and saluted, and Lee asked if all the commands were ready for the advance. “none but the Texas Brigade, General.” said the aide. “The Texas Brigade is ALWAYS ready,” commented Lee.
The Texas Brigade was to Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) what the Old Guard was to Napoleon and the Imperial Army of France. First in advance. Shock troops in battle. The rear guard in retreat.
California would lay on it’s back with it’s high heels through it’s hoop earrings if we threw rainbow colored condoms at it,,or free BC, or vibrators and videotaped the whole thing. The wouldn’t be able to resist.
If the states got to keep their military assets, the Tidewater Virginia area is just about over run with Army, Navy and Air Force bases.
Also the Florida Panhandle has several and they are really big or active ones too.
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