I dont think so...I’ve crunched the numbers....not even the Imperial japs were foolish enough to try and invade with a full army.
Remember this fact...it took months to clear out 5000 jihadi assclowns from ONE city in Iraq...and that was with amror and air support and motivated troops.
There are well over 200 million armed Americans is possession of over 300 million weapons.
Even using your figure of 20 million pissed off Americans...that is only 10% of the force available
There are only just over 2 million on the entire federal payroll.....and that includes clerks and paper pushers.
Cops?
I live in a city of 250,000 and there are 700 cops spread across three shifts.
And what happened during the LA riots?
The cops all got off the streets and hid in their buildings.
The only ones who had any balls were the Koreans.
“There is a rifle behind every blade of Grass”
Note to self...PROOF READ AND SPELL CHECK!
I don’t mean to suggest that a rigid totalitarian outcome is likely. But we could slide into a dirty civil war, with atrocities common. And at the end of such a scenario, I see the grid going down. In the cities, factions living on top of critical infrastructure will have a “veto.” So will rural insurgents. Once the power goes out, the cities will explode, and humpty dumpty will not be put together again. There will be no winners in that situation.
Your words give me hope, but in the next 10 years, the battlefield will shift.
Drones will mark the end of the Era of the Gun.
Logistics.
Cut off the food, cut off the power, and 90% of the US will follow anyone to get it restored.
That is all you need to do to stop an uprising.