That was tried my mesico once before.
Posted on 12/23/2008 9:37:10 PM PST by KellyM37
U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:14 PM
By: Jim Meyers
A new report from the U.S. Army War College discusses the use of American troops to quell civil unrest brought about by a worsening economic crisis.
The report from the War College’s Strategic Studies Institute warns that the U.S. military must prepare for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States” that could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.”
Entitled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development,” the report was produced by Nathan Freier, a recently retired Army lieutenant colonel who is a professor at the college — the Army’s main training institute for prospective senior officers.
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Ready on the left, ready on the right. Lock and load. Fire at will.
I agree with you.
Should push comes to shove, I wonder, truly, how many of the current crop of military men and women could stomach shooting up the very people who have been supporting them in their endeavors, in support of the very people who have taken every opportunity to slander or demoralize them, all the while giving moral support to their very deadly enemy.
The US Soldier takes an oath to defend the Constitution. The majority of the military is made up of conservatives that understand what that means as opposed to the average boneheaded citizen.
>>”Any gun lovers out there?”<<
Nope. Free Republic is a gun free zone. We all hate those evil tools of FReedom.
This isn't a spring of this year event, it will take a year in the pressure cooker that will be 2009.
The question is what would be the spark for “millions” of Americans? Think about it seriously. There might be economic riots in cities like LA, Detroit, etc., but as pointed out up thread the National Guard would handle those.
A further decline in the economic situation during 2009, sporadic riots by the extrimis of the left, and 0bama declares martial law in mid-2010. Thereby tossing the Constitution out the door and preventing the elections to toss the corrupt Congress in 2010, preventing impeachment proceedings to the One...
Now I know what my lines are in the sand and most likely they are the same as many other violence as a last resort Americans. Come to terms with what stage is being set to take place. Fascism needs violence to facilitate its imposition.
Almost a year ago I said 0bama would bring this situation to fruition. Mussolini rose on similar circumstances and 0bama has admitted he is a ‘progressive pragmatist,’ so was Mussolini. I was scoffed at then when I noted it, but as things continue to align in that direction it is amazing the level of denial of what is happening.
America is about to repeat a history she fought against, that she shed blood over to stop. Who will rescue us, U.S.?
Its foolish for these war college professors to think that large scale battles would be fought between groups of citizens and the military. The prospect of an insurgency (which we Americans invented 230 yrs ago by the way) is the more likely scenario. Shoot, scoot, and blend in would be the order of the day. This country would be a paralyzed basket case in 6 months if martial law was declared and a IRA type of insurgency was correctly applied.
I have asked myself this same question a million times. There are 275-300 million weapons held by American citizens. I personally don't know a single person that has only one gun, therefore there isn't that many armed households. How many of us would be willing to get killed and leave their wives and children to who knows what fate at the hands of 0bama’s Crypt/Blood/Black Panther “Civilian Defense Forces”?
The military also has a large population of black soldiers who blindly voted for the 0ne and would cast their loyalties to the black cause. In my opinion, we have trained and armed a large force that will be used against us to maintain “civil order” on the orders of ‘their’ President. What greater dream is there for the angry black man to finally, and in his view, legally take up arms against ‘whitey’ and expel all that hatred that has been brewing for 400 years?
Since we aren't organized, or as 0bama has promised to his soon to be Civilian Defense Forces ‘equally equipped as the military’, then we are doomed and he knows that. They will take us one house at a time converging on us with a hundred plus of his so-called “troops”.
Don't think that we won't fight and fight hard when the alternative is forced enslavement and chains.
The original purpose and intent of the 2nd Amendment is soon to become more evident than ever. God bless our founders.
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That was tried my mesico once before.
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According to a study I read a couple of years ago: The minority soldiers are disproportionately in the combat support and service support arms. Whites are disproportionately in the combat arms. The reason for this is that most whites were enlisting to qualify for college aid and had little intention for a military career. Most minorities were looking at the military for a career. The combat arms have the largest enlistment bonuses. Support troops are not armed or trained or organized to be effective in combat.
“Maybe, but it seems like ever since the election, mentions of this sort of thing are popping up much more frequently, rumors of national emergencies and mass civil unrest. Hearing someone in the army talking about setting the Constitution aside and preparing for martial law under Obama is unsettling to say the least.”
You’re not seeing anything significantly different than similar ‘mentions’ during Clinton’s term of office. Go check some of the Y2K threads and you’ll see what I mean.
Support troops are not armed or trained or organized to be effective in combat.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. They are armed. The training has changed in the Army to try to make every soldier a warrior (e.g. every Marine is a riflemen) and teach the basics of how to react to ambushes, etc.
Perhaps I should have been more specific. Of course support troops are armed. They have personal weapons, rifles, pistols, a few machine guns. That is not comparable to the weaponry available to combat arms units.
And, of course, they are trained to properly respond to situations they are likely to encounter. But knowing how to react to an ambush on a convoy is not the same thing as knowing how the quell a riot or clear a house or operate heavy weaponry.
There are vast differnces in the organization, training and weaponry of combat arms (armor, infantry, artillery, etc.) and the training and weaponry of a support units (supply, maintenance, transportation, etc.).
For example, a unit organized to take and hold ground (infantry) is organized with fire teams, rifle squads, heavy weapons squads, etc. A unit organized to process personnel requests is organzied far differently. Can a unit be re-organized? Sure, takes time and training. And, equipment. A personnel, transportation, or maintenance unit doesn’t even have the communications gear to function effectively as a rifle company.
There’s just too much smoke for there not to be some fire in there somewhere.
Well, being from Western PA, the Whiskey Rebellion comes to mind.
But even that firing on the citizenry by Washington’s troops didn’t cause the young nation to fracture
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