Start taking out bridges and Michigan becomes nearly impassable by vehicle and the dense Michigan underbrush doesn't make it any easier on foot.
Yup. And such was Yamamoto’s assessment of the basic impossibility of any assault on the American west coast. That America was bristling with rifles “behind every blade of grass”.
“And such was Yamamoto’s assessment of the basic impossibility of any assault on the American west coast.”
Stalin asked the KGB (1951)how Russia would control the US if we went to war. The report said “You can’t control the US. Too many rifles”.
Armies are beaten by attacking their logistics and retricting their ability to move and destroying their ability to communicate, not necessarily head on assaults.
The situation here is a bit different from most other countries for the following reasons:
Ownership of arms and use of them is widespread. Americans are terrific shooters.
Knowledge of military tactics is widepsread.
Other knowledge, such as chemical and explosive knowledge is widespread because many of our populace use the knowledge frequently (farmers and ranchers, coal industry). Also because we publish it in our newspapers upon occasion.
Small machine shops, whether commercial or hobby type operations in the garage are very common.
I don’t see any power on the horizon that will be capable of taking us down in the foreseeable future. Some of the crazies in the world see it differently, but they hesitate to take us on.
“Armies beat armies, insurgents beat politicians”. Just look at our own history in Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Demos are constantly trying to surrender to someone, anyone, and have over the years, created a really serious problem as some of the nut bags in the world have figured out that many of our politicians are pansies.