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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
Americans who are not cowardly could put up a good fight. Also, there are millions of veterans in the US that won't go along with tyranny/gun confiscation should it happen.
Afghanistan is giving Uncle Sam all it can handle with IED's and AK-47's....for more than a decade. You can't just drone bomb the whole country.....it costs too much money.
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different country different people and not comparable.
America first and foremost has an infrastructure that's advantageous to a military. There are also easier logistics trains.
If the American government decided to just simply put troops in the streets you would see far more troops and far more tanks, and armored personal carriers and aircraft and everything else then they could ever put in Afghanistan.
Basically Troops would broil out of their bases and armories and have key control over cities in a matter of hours.
Plus average Joe American six pack with a m-16 is not in any way comparible to a Afghan tribesman that has learned to live in the harshest environments and make due and been basically fighting since the Soviets invaded.
The average American might be brave, but the average american compared to an Afghan tribes men is soft.
IF there was a governmental takeover in the States an insurgency would die fast and hard due to the facts of America just simply having more tools to use quicker then they had in Afghanistan.
And just because Joe 6 pack is a veteran doesn't mean much. Hell I'm a vet, I can shoot straight I was decently trained, but I would probably be mowed over in the first 10 minutes of a insurgency.
The rebels in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria aren't some poorly trained schlubs, they are well trained, and tough and have generations of handed down knowledge in how to fight invaders.
American's would have to learn on the fly and build that mentallity.
The Wolverines in the real world would have been smashed by artillary or an air strike as soon as the satellite registered the heat from the fire, and a surveillance aircraft listened in on Jeb telling the rest of those weasels to never cry again.
Then what's left would have been scooped up with spoons, put in a plastic baggy and sent to an unmarked grave.