how about an invasion during the winter months

I don't like these threads. They are troublesome even if I know it will never happen.

Even with the fact that America has changed (the "pussification") it won't be easy for an invading army. There would be a lot of casualties.

Americans are not the type of people to wait for something to happen to them. If someone said the enemy is in the harbor you can expect thousands to descend on that harbor like nothing you've seen. They would end up playing defense the entire time. At least that is how it would happen in my head.

A few years back I saw an real article that detailed that China had already been developing plans to invade America. I have been wary ever since.

Also the EMP attack that took place in One Second After absolutely crippled the country. If it happened, I believe it would happen like that. It would be the best way to do it. No communication. No food. No running water. No electricity.

Why send in their armed forces, just hit mainland US with an EMP - done deal.

Ok so hit them with an emp, invade the states, then what? The emp solution would ultimately cause more harm to the Chinese then good in the long run because it just widens the target on their heads. If the Chinese were to use an emp they would have done it by now and we would have been invaded by now. Wouldnt you think?

Originally posted by bguraluick27
Ok so hit them with an emp, invade the states, then what? The emp solution would ultimately cause more harm to the Chinese then good in the long run because it just widens the target on their heads. If the Chinese were to use an emp they would have done it by now and we would have been invaded by now. Wouldnt you think?

What happened in One Second After is that no one knew who detonated the EMP so the U.S. didn't know who to retaliate against.

You could launch it from anywhere.

Neutron bomb (outlawed by treaty). Short half-life. Walk in and take over.

Of course it would also kill the wildlife, farm animals, etc.

I suppose the NSA will perk up now. I used the "B" word.

Total conventional warfare? No one country alone really has the logistical sea or air lift capabilities to pull it off. Only if Britain, France or Germany chimed in. It could happen if it was a multinational effort of combining China, Russia, and Britain. It would have to be smart deploying internal sabotage or terrorist attacks of military and civilian infrastructure. Possible Bio or small nuke strikes to disable key strategic bases. It would have to be quick and swift and under total surprise. If they could gain Mexico and Canada to allow support for bases it could be possible. We are talking the US would really have to piss some people off.

As far as a single country? I do not ever see that ever happening. Russia sharing borders with Alaska could possibly but it would leave them exposed and bottle necked at the entry.

If US was to invade say Russia or China. It would really rely on support of bordering countries. US does have more sea and air lift capability but it would be suicide to do it alone without a multinational or NATO lead coalition. It would take a long air bombing and artillery campaign to disable and attrition their war machine before a ground assault could ever take place. By then all negotiations and diplomacy would have failed and all out nuclear war would be unavoidable.

China by itself could send 400k PLA troops in an amphibious assault but not enough ships to defend it crossing the Pacific. It would also require a huge air superiority which they do not have alone. China also does not possess the bombers required to soften the coastal areas or US infrastructure.

Russia has more naval capabilities, conventional and their air force is way better than China but still a stretch to successfully grab a foothold.

Canada being so close sharing our northern border would actually have the strongest advantage logistically as long as they could push and keep up supply lines. Canada lacks the boots on the ground to make it far.

Mexico? No offense to our neighbors to the south but Mexico lacks the infrastructure and armament.

All in all I don't think any country would try to attack another Super Power or anyone possessing nuclear capabilities. It would just end badly. Basically it would be head to head standoffs through diplomatic mitigation involving NATO and other countries. But I am just talking off the top of my head. Yet I do have some knowledge of the capabilities of China and Russia.

Originally posted by kennethmd
If every nation on Earth, except for Israel, combine their arm forces could easily invade the United States without having that much problems getting their troop over to the U.S.

"Easily" is a pretty relative term, now isn't it?

An invading force would only be successful ... from within ..
if they had the whitehouse

Yes and No

For the yes...If the enemy invaders planned enough and had the weapons then it's possibly IMO. Only China or Russian maybe even a alliance between the two could do it. First you would have to destroy our satellites. China has demonstrated they posses the ability to destroy a satellite now how effective they would be destroying our GPS and secret satellites is unknown.... I have no idea how many or how accurate these ASAT weapons are, but destroying our communications is a important step to a invasion. Next would be taking out our aircraft carriers we got a eleven of them and they are all over the world so having intelligence where they are and the means to destroy them is key, the Chinese have an Anti-Carrier ballistic missile how many and if any could get through Aegis is unknown, but if they have a lot supported by other missiles like Brahmos/II then you would suspect a few would get through and cripple if not sink a carrier. Destroying our other ships is important but not as important as taking out our mobile airfields. The wild card is submarines unless the Chinese and Russians have some amazing device that can track all our submarines in the world and the ability to destroy them...means we can just retaliate on the enemy's homeland with the deadly Trident II ballistic missile.

For those saying it's impossible to invade the USA just because the civilians are heavily armed must take into account the enemy could destroy our infrastructure or simply just donate a nuke 400-500 km in the atmosphere in the middle of the USA causing most if not all of the nation to go dark those same people will then turn on each other with their weapons just to survive and protect themselves.....taking care of oneself takes precedent of fending off a invasion and that's to say they even know a invasion is taking place...Millions of people would just die because of this one act no food, clean water, electricity sadly not many of us would survive without proper training and knowledge.

but then No the U.S couldn't be invaded since such a operation is too big too risky and costly their is no enemy in the world right now that's like Nazi Germany that requires such a invasion and war, it's not like invading and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan...I just don't see anyone even attempting such a thing.

Originally posted by usernameconspiracy
Thanks to the MIC, and our manned bases around the world, we have the ability to intercept any incoming invasion before it gets to our mainland. So, it would take one hell of a fleet to make it through our navy, missile system, air attack, etc., to make it our shores for a traditional invasion.

Not to stray off topic, but this is reason number 1 why Ron Paul's desires to shut down overseas bases would be a poor decision which would greatly weaken our defenses.

Yeah cause having our military spread out in 135 countries and fighting two undeclared wars ad several other police actions really strengthens our defenses... Sigh Nice republicrat talking point...

The bottom line is no country has the logistics for any sustained campaign in the US even if they could manage to get a beach head on our shores and they all know it. The risk of invasion is so minimal its not even worth discussing.

Without the aid of Russia; any conventional attempt would deffinitely fail.
With the the aid of Russia I'd give it less than 50% as the logistics of fighting on the streets that far from home in a country where everyone has access to a gun would be suicide.

500 million people, probably 700 million guns and loads of local knowledge...even the chinese wouldnt have the manpower to fight a street by street conflict.

Probs the best way would be to forget about guns and go about divising a number of fiendishly clever financial collapse traps and just settle for economic slavery of the inhabitants once the bait is taken???