Would it be possible to invade the US?

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Fingers

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Originally posted by: takuma
Personally I think The us would have to be taken over by some kind of small secert group like al qaida. My reason being In normal conventional warfare the US currently owns anybody so forget about china and stuff. Also thing like nuclear weapons and other military powers end up being much less usefull when there isnt enemy bases and targets and stuff to bomb. Like how in Iraq the iraqi gov and republican gaurd was destroyd quickly but the US simpily cannot wipe out the insurgents. If they can pull off a few more 9-11's and the gas supply is crapped then the US is going to be in a very bad position. Also I daont think there would be that great resitance from the US pop because there really isnt that many automatic gun owners, and plus I doubt the avarage overwieght McDonalds american wont be doing much fighting. Also are un trained citizens with guns really better than people with carbombs who are willing to die for there cause?

I have a 30-06 and a 300 WSM that I can hit 5" moving targets at 400 and 600 yards respectively. I beleive I can take out my fair share before they got me. Plus I've got redneck friends just like me as well.
 

bigredguy

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Originally posted by: Amplifier
I was playing an invasion level in Rome Total war and I realized, it would be impossible to invade the US.

We can match any tank vs tank/ plane vs plane so it would come down to their soldiers vs us. And now that we all can buy automatic firearms I don't think the invaders would stand a chance against 300 million people exercising their second amendment rights.

*fires gun in air*

What do you think?


Edit: And I mean successfully invaded, not just occupy for a month or two.


Mexico has taken over the Southwest already.
 

biostud

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First you apply deadly germ that kills civil population. Then you wait a couple of years, then it's all up for grap.
 
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I'd say yes, only if you didn't start with Texas. (we have the 2nd largest army in the world...yes, that's right, the majority of America's armed forces stay here. that may be because a large portion of our army are from Texas.)
 

Sphexi

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It would take a LOT of manpower to successfully invade us. There's no way to get to us, no landfall that we aren't allied with. They'd first have to take out our vast navy, destroy our overseas bases or get to either Canada or Mexico and use one of the two as a launching pad for an invasion. If they tried to march here (LOL) from somewhere else across the arctic or something ridiculous like that it'd never work. Either way we got plenty of nukes left, and if a force large enough showed it's face (as if we wouldn't spot them on radar thousands of miles away) we'd simply drop a few well placed nukes on em and essentially stop that.


So yeah, short of years and years of economic problems/sanctions and destroying our external forces, it'd be impossible.
 

imported_malcontent

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I would think that a total occupation of the US would be very hard to pull off. About the only way it could happen is for the people to become so disillusioned with the current government that they would welcome and assist the invading. And, the chance of that happening is slim to none.
 

mwtgg

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Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Damn, there's some rampant stupidity and ignorance in this thread.

Neither Pearl Harbor nor 9/11 was an invasion. An invasion is a large scale military operation that is designed to hold and control territory: Allied forces invaded mainland Europe during D-Day. William the Conqueror's forces invaded England in 1066.

Is is possible for mainland US to be invaded? Certainly. However, I doubt very many if any countries besides the US itself have the ability to project that kind of military force at this time.

So the US invades itself for shits and giggles? Brilliant! ;)
 

exdeath

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Originally posted by: Acanthus
The only way the united states is going down is civil war.
Yeah no doubt...

And it couldn't come soon enough so we can take out all the socialists and liberals in this country that wish to see it destroyed rather than move to one of many existing socialist nations.

Liberating and purify CA and NY should be first on the agenda. Should be fairly easy since all they have to defend themselves with is 911 on their cell phone and a spork. Or they will use psy ops on us with their whining and protesting while trying to run us over with their 5 HP seaweed powered plastic cars.

We also need to do something about the Mexicans down here who think the SW belongs to Mexico, esp. the ones with political power who fight any pro American bills that come their way. Cry about 'illegals' all you want, the problem isn't just with illegals. The problem is with the millions that are already here that are already so called citizens for whatever reason (born here, etc) but for all intents and purposes behave in the same lawless ghetto ways that the illegals do... that is the bigger problem. Basically the result of illegals generations ago after mass breeding like rabits and trying to take us over in sheer numbers alone and force their ghetto culture onto us and earn negative stereotypes for the people who honestly came here to start better lives.

 

JustAnAverageGuy

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Physically? Extremely doubtful. That has been covered before

Mentally? Possibly.

That said, I enjoyed the book "Alas, Babylon". It's about what would happen if the Soviet Union actually did launch an all out nuclear attack on the US during the 60s.
 

Reckoner

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The Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands during WW2, didn't work out too well for them as we all know. ;)
 

Fingers

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Originally posted by: exdeath
Originally posted by: Acanthus
The only way the united states is going down is civil war.
Yeah no doubt...

And it couldn't come soon enough so we can take out all the socialists and liberals in this country that wish to see it destroyed rather than move to one of many existing socialist nations.

Liberating and purify CA and NY should be first on the agenda. Should be fairly easy since all they have to defend themselves with is 911 on their cell phone and a spork. Or they will use psy ops on us with their whining and protesting while trying to run us over with their 5 HP seaweed powered plastic cars.

We also need to do something about the Mexicans down here who think the SW belongs to Mexico, esp. the ones with political power who fight any pro American bills that come their way. Cry about 'illegals' all you want, the problem isn't just with illegals. The problem is with the millions that are already here that are already so called citizens for whatever reason (born here, etc) but for all intents and purposes behave in the same lawless ghetto ways that the illegals do... that is the bigger problem. Basically the result of illegals generations ago after mass breeding like rabits and trying to take us over in sheer numbers alone and force their ghetto culture onto us and earn negative stereotypes for the people who honestly came here to start better lives.

Just think they could open liberal hunting season for 2 weeks a year in California and New York. Game ranches would be popping up all over the place and people would be building tree stands on telephone poles. ;) LoL

 

yukichigai

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China is the only country that springs to mind as having anywhere near the manpower and resources to accomplish such a task. Even then they'd be seriously stretching it. It'd take a multi-nation coalition, and we're talking big-ass nations, not Afghanistan, Pakistan and all the other *stans.
 

nitsuj3580

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anyone who is interested in this kind've stuff, I highly recommend reading all of Vince Flynn's novels. Pretty detailed fiction that seems almost possible in real life.
 

LTC8K6

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Keep in mind that a chunk of our own population would be helping the invaders and the possibilities open up a bit.
 

Fox5

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Originally posted by: LTC8K6
Keep in mind that a chunk of our own population would be helping the invaders and the possibilities open up a bit.


Just because someone has different political views than you, doesn't mean they'd welcome being enslaved by the Chinese, nor be willing to give up their luxaries. If a country is invading the US, it can probably be assumed it's not friendly to the US population.
 

daniel49

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Originally posted by: Amplifier
Originally posted by: Taggart
Well, there is a difference btwn 'invasion' and 'conquered.' You mean conquered? Invaded, yes, conquered, yes, if nuclear weapons and/or other WMD's were involved.

Conquered would be asking too much for the invaders. I'll give them credit if they can hold California for over a year.

California is a blue state. In a years time they would still be debating whether it was ethical for us to throw the invaders out.