> It’s not like we are just bunch of farmers with old
> double-barreled shotguns.
The AQ insurgency in iraq was armed with fully automatic weapons, rocket launchers, mortars, grenade launchers, and belt-fed machine guns and were highly trained in military tactics. Furthermore, they were young and suicidally dedicated to their cause.
Nevertheless, they had their heads handed to them by the American military.
Against equipment like armored vehicles, artillery, attack helicopters, close air support, bomber squadrons and predator drones, a domestic insurgency here in the States will be ruthlessly, decisively, and promptly crushed.
The thing that jumps out at me after reading your post is the assumption our military would react in a civil conflict as they do in a war beyond our shores.
They wouldn’t. Big difference between fighting in another land, and fighting among their own homes, neighborhoods, cities and states.
Second thought...there is a huge difference between an Iraqi people beaten down by a brutal dictatorship for three plus decades, that has less than 30 million citizens, and ours.
300 million Americans, more or less. 220 million firearms in private hands - minimum.
A much larger geographical area. A much wider variety of terrain.
Finally, as our Civil War demonstrated, ‘ruthlessly’ yep. But ‘decisively’? Ah, thats not what happened last time around.
‘Promptly’ is the one thats the most amusing, btw.
Then you have to recall 5% of the American population are veterans of the American Military, and all that entails.
There has never been a war like this in world history, if it were to take place, is my point. Predicting how it would be fought is impossible, and your premise is based on how OTHERS have fought against our military.
Interesting exercise when you think of all the factors involved.
“Against equipment like armored vehicles, artillery, attack helicopters, close air support, bomber squadrons and predator drones, a domestic insurgency here in the States will be ruthlessly, decisively, and promptly crushed.”
I wouldn’t count on that. When the military is forced to attack the citizens of it’s own country and choose sides between a marxist giving orders and their own family, it will get ugly inside the military and at the capital. Look for a violent overthrow of the boobs at the top first.