How would you invade the USA?, page 5


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reply posted on 10-4-2011 @ 04:14 AM by The Baby Seal Club
reply to post by AnteBellum



Basically AnteBellum, it's impossible, currently, to launch a conventional military invasion of the US. It's not a question so much of strategy or tactics, but of logistics.

An old military saying "Historians study strategy, Generals study logistics".

Now if you wanted to do it unconventionally or involve WMDs or covertly over a period of years; then that is something different.


reply posted on 10-4-2011 @ 04:36 AM by bhornbuckle75
reply to post by AnteBellum



Knowing that a military force as strong as America's would be hard to amass....but even assuming I had one, I'd still fight in a somewhat guerrilla style. Its always worked best against the American Military in the past. I think what I would likely do is forgo trying to defeat America's Military,but instead I would hit populated areas, one at a time taking over one city after another. I would have my army take over city after city...the entire time keeping the base of operations in the most populated of areas....causing a situation where American Citizens would act as our own personal Human Shields...I might also set up command bases in power plants, and other such resources......I would plan on destroying these anyway, and if the American's bombed them they would just be doing our job for us. I think I would continue destroying resources like clean water, food supplies and power stations in American cities....using mainly ground troops, forcing the American's to use the same, keeping them from using their stealth planes and other such toys, which is their comfort zone. Basically I'd just keep choking the cities and crippling them, ignoring military targets.....eventually the American people would start to give in, once they were hungry enough......eventually this would make the military crack, and give up.


reply posted on 10-4-2011 @ 04:41 AM by Silicis n Volvo
reply to post by AnteBellum



before i attacked, id plan a little more...consider how they might defend themselves and how they might counter attack..and put preventions in place before i started anything.

something most of you havnt mentioned.


reply posted on 10-4-2011 @ 04:45 AM by Silicis n Volvo
reply to post by sonofliberty1776



because its that easy?? you'd wait a month? lol you have enough EMPs to cover the entire US? before that month is over there would be a huge hole in the ground where you used to be.

everyone comment on this thread seems to be in the assumption that the enemy wouldnt fight back.

fail.


reply posted on 10-4-2011 @ 04:58 AM by Thepreye
reply to post by AnteBellum



What similar force, the US spends more than the rest of the world on "defence", so we'll presume the rest of the world has "found out the big secret" and allied together to overthrow the US oppression and the aliens have banned nukes with their "powers".

Human waves from the south backed up by the huge fifth column of illegals, while India, Russia and China amass a 40, 000, 000 man army in Alaska and Canada, Europe takes on the role of command and control using German expertise to organise the supply chain. White Commonwealth special forces take on the role of sabotage and spreading sedition within the borders of the CUSA.

In the real world there is no way to attack the USA, its neighbors are weak and everyone else is too far away resulting in insurmountable problems with both supply and force movement, not to mention the ridiculous issues of bringing an army in good cohesion through Alaska and Canada.

The Homeland will never be attacked, rest easy patriots.



reply posted on 10-4-2011 @ 05:10 AM by conar
wait a few years for the 50 year old fleet to get retired.

Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is from 1961!
en.wikipedia.org...

the ship's retirement for 2013, when she will have served for 51 consecutive years, the most of any U.S. aircraft carrier
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The 5 billion dollar replacement is coming in 2015 though
en.wikipedia.org...
Here it is beign built on google maps with strange plane on deck
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reply posted on 10-4-2011 @ 05:22 AM by JiggyPotamus
If I were in charge of planning a US invasion, there would be many factors to consider. One of the important ones being whether I had nuclear weapons or not. If so, I would NOT want to use them, because the US would not hesitate to retaliate, and mass destruction would nullify the whole point of going to war...unless of course you are an extremist, and would just as soon have your country leveled as long as you take as many Americans with you as possible, but as likely as this situation may be, I will not go there.

Another major factor is armament. Do I have a navy? An air force? It would be extremely, extremely difficult to position a force large enough for a (successful) US invasion without alerting the government and military. Given this fact, the best way, imo, to position troops for a US invasion would be to (slowly) move them from lower South America into Mexico. This would still be extremely difficult to do without alerting the US, and brings up the important factor of allies. Who is allied with whom? If Canada were an ally, this could be achieved from the North as well. Or both.

Of course, you would have to open more than one front, and with a navy major forces could be positioned a decent distance away from US waters, as to not raise immediate suspicion, and they could move closer to the coast once the initial invasion had begun, followed up by establishing a beach-head on the East coast.

The Pacific coast is a viable option, as there would not be as large of an electronic net as on the East coast, ie submarine detection systems, etc, but the US has a larger naval presence in the Pacific as opposed to the Atlantic regions. Again, allies would come into play.

Also, along with the initial North/South invasion, if I had a good sized air force, I would use jets to protect transport planes, and send a massive amount of them inland to drop paratroopers. I mean honestly, there are just too many variables that would change the strategic situation, and without knowing those variables, a decent plan could not be laid out.

Also, the likelihood of a land based invasion, while much more preferable to nuclear war, in my opinion just would not happen to the US. It is scary to think however, that one side would use nukes against the other, giving the other an excuse to retaliate with nukes themselves. This is why no one should have nukes, but that will never happen...Unless there is alien intervention, lol, and even then I am not so sure.

With a large enough force, and with a sizable navy/air force (China anyone?), a US invasion could actually be feasible, but the US would have allies across the globe, and I am positive that someone would opt for the nuclear option, and utter chaos would ensue.

Honestly, anyone's plan is as good as mine since the variables are unknown. I do believe that it is important to discuss things like this, maybe not for us though, since it gives you insight into where your weaknesses lie.
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