07-03-2018, 09:15 AM
(07-03-2018, 08:57 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Not commenting on the idea of a civil war or on the idiocy of Alex Jones, but I see this argument made by people all the time and it could not be more erroneous. A human with a rifle is still the best weapon system on the planet. If you doubt this then kindly explain how the Taliban still exists without a single helicopter or tank? How did the Viet Cong stand up to the best military in the world? Unless a military is willing to engage in wholesale slaughter, i.e. purging an area of human life, there is no way to account for partisans within the population. Most military hardware is designed to deal with the armies of other nations. But conquering and holding territory is solely the purview of the infantry and until infantry have body armor impervious to small arms then they are on close to equal footing to a civilian with a gun, especially a well trained one.
Trust me, any military historian would scoff at the idea that a modern military has nothing to fear from an armed populace.
Yea, this was the response I was expecting. You can believe that if it makes you feel better, I just know based off what I see through my work with military contractors that no group here has any chance what so ever to be more than a nuisance (resist for a while). The government has facial recognition software so good that it can pick you out of crowds of thousands of people using the cameras on the streets, cell phones, and traffic lights, etc. in seconds. Our government is actually better equipped to fight a war here more so than any other place in the world due to their infrastructure of tech here to easily find and eliminate targets. This tech doesn't get rolled out for normal police investigations because it is expensive to use the cloud computing resources required, but if the federal government wanted to find someone today they could within the hour. This doesn't even include the fleet of satellites and drones that would be unleashed here constantly surveying looking for targets if this was the most important issues at hand. You can't use history to compare because no time in history has the U.S. ever needed to apply it's full attention to a front for self preservation like would be required in this scenario. Between technology and focus, there is no historical comparison to even begin to use as an example of a similar situation.
