[GonzoGOP]

There are only a few passages through and they are easily defended by the citizens.

Citizens who have all had military training and were dug into forts that made the Maginot like look like Fort Apache. The biggest difference was that the Swiss forts couldn't be bypassed and they had two years of food and ammo buried in tunnels under the mountains.

Now if you want to be a non-interventionist that is what you have to do. You must turn you citizenship into an army. Turn your borders into walls, and your entire nation into a fortress. Then, and only then, can you not worry about what else is going on in the world. In addition during WWI the Swiss converted all their railroads from steam to electric so they could use local hydro electric power and not have to worry about being cut off from supplies of oil and coal. Finally they were self sufficient in terms of food. The fortified borders and mountain passes meant that they could not be taken by storm and they could out wait any attempt at siege.

In contrast the United Stats has only a small fraction of its population with military training, no border defenses what so ever, and no fortified or hardened bases to fall back on. There are no great stockpiles of food or ammo to support a protracted battle on American soil. In addition, dependent as we are on imported fuel, there is no way for our economy to survive if we were to be cut off from foreign trade. The US is forced to fight its wars overseas, because fighting here is just not a winning option.

[dfwgator]

What would have stopped the Nazis from simply bombing the Swiss into submission, like they did the Dutch in Rotterdam?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Fighting on your own soil is never a winning proposition. Not just for Americans, but for anyone. I would also say that though we do not have a large amount of citizens with military training, we have a lot of citizens that shoot, own guns and hunt. All things that come in handy with military training. As for an invasion of America, I could see something like the movie Red Dawn taking place. People going into the hills, living off the land and living off your enemy’s supplies while fighting them in a gurilla style, low intensity conflict warfare.