The US military is woefully inadequate for dominating American’s at home.
That is something we SHOULD be proud of. They are not designed to oppress us at home and would get their asses handed to them if they tried for some tragic reason.
Fighting whole standing on top of you logistical tail is going to fail. Food supplies? Where you gonna get fuel delivered to the F-16 base? Think truckers are gonna run the gauntlet?
Here is what an “F-16 war” in America would look like if dozens of nations around the world and many here in the America’s are a guide.
A Base Commander gets an envelope with photos of his family... kids walking into school, wife sitting at a coffee.
An Apache pilot takes off on a normal flight, and strafes the flight line destroying 7 helicopters. His abandoned Apache is found on a rural dirt road, abandoned and fodded. The pilot was from a red state and didn’t want to put up with anymore crap from his commander who wore a dog mask and sodomized male junior officers.
A drone pilot based in Las Vegas goes to the casino for a fun night on the town. He meets a smoking hot babe who has never been to Vegas before. He brags that he is a drone pilot for the Air Force. She is deeply impressed. They wind up in his room. In post coital bliss she sails a .38 through his head. He never learned her dad and brother were killed in a drone strike 3 months ago.
In 1981, Puerto Rican terrorists slipped through the perimeter of a National Guard Air Base and set bombs, destroying 7 A-7 Corsair II’s. It’s just as easy today.
An F-16 pilot reads the order to let their hair grow, to remove all Air Force bumper stickers, and never wear the uniform off base.
Truck drivers refuse to drive onto military bases.
Family members start discussing things with their relatives in the military. They start siding with the family.
At some Raytheon plant that makes the missiles, some depot level F-16 civilian contractor facility, some electronics contractor in the unsecured local industrial park, the employees arrive to find 3 engineers hanging from the overpass at the exit.
This and so much more. The Israeli Air Force pilots go to great lengths to conceal their identity and work. But not here.
Biden is a low life. His comment is precisely his world view. The American people are the enemy and he has in his mind trying to use the military against us.
But he should review dirty wars around the world. And the fact that with 20 years our military could not subdue something the size of Texas. And those were places that over half of our soldiers were not family and friends of the enemy.
The senile fool probably doesn’t know any of those things. DC lives in it’s cloistered world and does not understand the nation or the world.
Or the caterer that disappears just before a bunch of party apparatchiks get terminally ill after a gala in which they congratulate themselves.
But the big part is that supply isn't secure. Especially if those producing/shipping that supply are pissed off that nearby base just laid waste to their friends and family.
Imagine large cities that don't have trucks supplying goods. In a short time, the decision comes--stabilize them, or let them burn?
I learned that while I was at Homestead (early’80s) some Nicaraguans, I believe, were caught walking near the flightline, one night. They were in AF uniforms, but aroused suspicion because the insignia that they wore were not subdued. The AF had changed to subdued insignia, not too long before that. I can’t begin to describe how stupid flightline security was at HAFB, in those days.
Don’t forget: if America gets into a civil war, there will be a dozen countries at least eager to seize the opportunity to stab us in the back while we are occupied at home.
The goal is UN Troops, always has been, but the rage would be even greater.