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Originally Posted by gunnut
Right now, even without the US Navy's interference, no nation has enough transportation capability to ship an army here and then keeping it alive to fight.
Think about it, where will this army get food, water, fuel, ammo, medicine, reinforcement, and heavy equipment to sustain a fight?
I recently played a game called World In Conflict which did the "what if" scenario. What if, in 1989, the Cold War turned hot and the Soviet forces landed in Seattle using container ships to slip past the US Navy? This already assumed a full scale conventional war in Europe to tie down most of our forces.
Playing that game I realized that it could not, and cannot happen. All those tanks need diesel. All those men need food and water. A modern army burns through tons of fuel and ammo in just hours. No fuel, no ammo, no fight.
Of course, how would an invading army even occupy this country? Nothing is centralized. I can tell you here in sounthern California you can drive from north to south between 2 counties, 100 miles of urban sprawl. I'm not kidding. There is no break in between the cities. And the population concentration is not that great. It just doesn't end. If you think our military has problem occupying Iraq, think about an invading army that has to deal with an area 20 times as large.
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do you remmember Red Dawn?
The only way to invade the US would be to invade through a neighboring country first, say Mexico, and/or Canada. The army could theoreticaly feed off the land making supply lines irrelevant, pull up to the ol' Sunoco and filler up. But this would have to be a massive undertaking, one that would take years of planning and hundreds of thousands of men, (all the while the US clueless to the massive build up around them) and for what? Plus the US is inhabitated like no other country I can think of, the population is so spread out, you would always be outflanked, with a standing army in every state, I cant see any scenerio where this works.