If you step outside your home, they will cut your head off. They control movement, water, food, and general policing and “control” of the masses.
Simple.
In America I think it would be a simple matter of going directly to the schools and seizing control of the kids.
basically it means they take over the city hall or other main government buildings
If your city was invaded by a group of well-armed individuals, you have some decisions to make...leave, fight or wait. Few if any will fight, leaving is perhaps to difficult. Wait and see might seem to be the most logical decision. Jews did not leave Warsaw though a few fought. Human nature and not too difficult to understand.
Gibbons wrote, paraphrasing, that a well fortified city of 10,000 can withstand an assault by an army of 100,000. But once within, a well organized armed group of 10,000 can control a city of one million.
The Nazis took over the Warsaw ghetto, but it look months and the power of several divisions. The Jews in the ghetto had very few guns, but they used them.
In a city where resisters had guns and knew how to use them, it would be difficult to “take over” in any real sense, if the people truly were “resisters”.
This is the essence of Solzhenitsyn’s “How we burned in the camps ...”
They kill or drive out police and security forces, controlling gas stations and other points of need for citizens
There are many ways to take over a city. Look at Detroit.
Soldiers, including guerrillas, are mostly very young, trained to fight, and are much more physically fit than most non-combat folks realize. Real training for real combat soldiers (very small percentage of total military personnel) is very uncomfortable, necessarily humiliating, lengthy and not “as seen on TV” or on civilian commando ranges. But without such training, people won’t fight like soldiers. Regardless of previous plans or determination, they’ll only be afraid and generally compliant.
Very fearful of what’s ahead.
The citizenry is unarmed. Those paid to protect them are cowards. Those who want to dominate them are utterly ruthless. After that, it’s easy.
I know that you are a prepper in Phoenix right? Are you thinking of what you would do if Arizona was invaded? Yeah, me, too.
from one neighborhood to another, taking on willing enlistees....
they could stop traffic coming into their hood...they could cut down cell phone towers....
it could happen....
I think of two scenarios...Paris which fell without a shot, and Stalingrad. I suppose it depends on the willingness to fight. Frankly, I’m too old and it hurts when I kneel so I guess I would have to fight.
First, you take over their health care and refuse to treat the residents.
Then you flood the city with immigrants from another country, and give the health care resources to them instead.
Then you drain the bank accounts of the residents and use the money to feed the immigrants.
Then you shut down the businesses that keep the residents employed, or enact punishing fines on the businesses so that they can't afford to keep the residents employed.
Then you break down the family structure of the residents in order to weaken their value system.
Then you stop teaching the children about math, science, and history, so that they lose their connections to their culture and national heritage, and make them dependent on those who took over the cities.
-PJ
The Middle East is on fire, let it burn.
The Middle East is on fire, let it burn.
“taking over” is a very vague term. It basically means they can operate and move around in specific area without encountering severe combat.
That’s not to say the control the electricity, TV, radio, police, organs of government, etc... - that takes a long time, and from the sound of it Islamists are not very good at governing, only killing.