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Old 01-16-2008, 12:37 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Support of Mexico, or maybe some South American gang.
Still a matter of getting food and water to where you need it. Not happenning.

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Looking at it in the context of an attack on any Western country I think its fairly good.
You mean very poor. We have had four natural disasters that puts to dwarf anything man could do (Mont Saint-Helen, Katrina, California Earthquake, Ice Storm 98, Easter seaboard power blackout) and we're still very much here.

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How much damage could 15 men with wire coat hangers do? I say alot should they start shorting out electrical sub stations.
Those things take quite a bit of time to make, and there are only limited spares.
Nothing my engineers could not handle within a 72 hour period.

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Get 400 soldiers; give them a few thousand dollars a pop and a mission to take a different town/city each to shut down.

I think unconventional warfare can get a lot done in the west.
You've been reading UNRESTRICTED WARFARE too much.
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in any case armed citizens will put up hell of a fight, not to mention army.
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I think this thread has had enough "entertainment." For future reference, please do not insult our intelligence further.
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