Message from @JB-717
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ready the chlorine gas
and get those masks ready, AND SHAVE BLOOD WELL SHAVE
i miss the days of bolt action rifles 😦
now everyone wants to use full auto rifles against me
fucking suppression
really off topic but it's amazing to think 2 centuries ago there was muskets and then there came bolt actions revolutionizing ground combat, and now there's fully automatic weapons that spend most their time making the other side keep their head down
there's another thing to consider actually
with how the military has evolved, we have far less men in divisions, far less need of mass charges and massive ground warfare campaigns
this is going to make occupation hard for the military
because if a lot of the populace is rowdy, protesting, and MPs are required to keep the peace
they're going to be spread thin
It's more common to see Brigade sized units than it is full divisions anymore
Mechanization played a roll in that
Once we started mass producing IFV's, APC's, tanks and really phasing out the horse cavalry and foot components, the military required less men and instead more training.
if you go into Moscow type warfare, where the Germans had to go street by street
then poorly trained militias actually have the advantage if it's nationwide rebellions
because our own forces, while very trained and well equipped, take a lot of time and money as a result to be sent to the front
and when there, it'll be hard to get reinforcements in a civil war situation with possible insurgents on all the major supply routes
the U.S. military relies on it's logistic capability to accomplish what it does around the world
without that advantage due to the conditions, this is a war that'll last longer than a purge
War is logistics
the Germans didn't have the gas to blitz moscow, after having to go as far as they did into poor infrastructure russian lands
most of their motorized supply units broke down in the first six months
being irreplaceable
supplies took longer to get where needed, and the Russians blew up the caucaus oil fields
costing the Germans the needed resources to sustain a mechanized/armor thrust
in a civil war situation, depending on the organization and how widespread the rebellions are
the U.S. Military is likely to find itself in similar dilemma
and that there, is where it will fall apart
we've seen Afghanistan
In this sorta scenario, the technology difference doesn't matter
The Taliban owns over half of Afghanistan and government forces have lost entire cities to the insurgents in recent months
and that's with U.S. military support
The only way to win against people like that is old tactics
Roman tactics
enslave the people, salt the fields, burn the towns, poison the wells
but no one has the gall to do something like that
so as a result, the war is unwinnable
The Italians started using old Roman tactics like that in their Libya campaign
after over 20 years of occupation since the Great War