posted on Oct, 1 2010 @ 12:25 PM
reply to post by QBSneak000
The majority of the National Guard is overseas as well, and they are included in that 1.5M figure.
Plus our "real" National Guard is in the form of State Defense Forces and Militias. These are the folks that far outnumber the state-sanctioned
military, they still conduct training and drills, they still have a structured organization and hierarchy, and they are set up in small units all over
the country. Each of those organizations has tons and tons of "reserves" just like the military does.
If something insane goes down, the militias will spring to action, if it becomes wide-scale, then the militias will recruit all their reserve members
from the communities that are willing to help, but unwilling to be on the list, because we want to avoid any political backlash of our government
constantly redefining "domestic terrorists."
The fact is, we have probably 100x more armed civilians, most with military training, than we have armed military. In a domestic SHTF scenario, a
portion of the organized military would join the side of the civilians and take equipment and intel with them. The civilian militias would organize
and recruit other trained and armed civilians. There is no way the government comes out on top in any armed conflict scenario with the population.
My buddies that grew up in the USSR and had military families said that it was common knowledge to the USSR military that at their prime, they could
handily defeat the US military in a matter of months. At the time they had more hardware, more people, and more training. BUT, they also knew that
they could never rule the American population, or win a war on American soil. That was the true deterrent during the Cold War! It wasn't nuclear
arsenals, or mutual destruction, it was the fact that nothing could be gained by a war. The US knew it could not conquer Russia, and the USSR knew it
could not conquer America. There was nothing to be gained by a war.