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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Armed insurection has always worked so well against the American government, I'm surprised that more people haven't tried it.
Seriously, numbers mean nothing in this kind of conflict. It would be nothing but a slaughter. A force of 3,000,000 trained professionals with modern arms would completely tear apart 20,000,000 unorganized irregulars with only sidearms. I'm sorry, but I can't imagine any realistic scenario where rebels would emerge victorious. There are reasons why 100,000 Germans held off 2,000,000 Soviets at Stalingrad for 6 months. Any rebeling force would be disorganized at best and a mob in its most likely incarnation. You can't tell me that a highly organized, trained rebel army is going to spontaneous arise from nowhere in this country.
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Um the Germans didnt "hold" the Russians off at Stalingrad. The situation was that Germany attacked and Russia simply could not:
1. Get reinforcements, food, ect into the city.
2. Do much about bombs getting dropped on their city, (not much ANYONE can do about shots being fired miles away and blowing holes through walls.)
Think on this, do you think the Russians in that situation, if even near a quarter more russian had been train soldeirs the outcome would of been largly different? No, probably not, the city didnt have supply's or food for those kinds of troups, I'd wager that any random soldeir would have any problems killing a half starved individual whether it be soldeir, or civilian.
The issue isnt truly a TRAINED rebel army. Think of the civil war, it WAS cusins and brothers fighting against each other and they devided it up by lines. Something sure as hell happened there. A person will fight if their belief's in how their way of life should be lived is threatened by anouther living thing. No the goverment would not out right win a fight, because undoubtably people would switch sides in what they believe in. People dont fight for laws, they fight for their way of life and how they want their lives and those around them to be.
Think of it this way, what would be the reason to raise a rebellion if you felt you where totaly unthreatened by events surrounding your civil rights and the rights of your future offspring? If you thought that your children or the children of the nation where going the be used by people thousands of miles away who dont have the good of THE PEOPLE, not the goverment in mind, then wouldnt you fight? A single party system that control's everything, even OTHER PARTY's through espinage to get information that they have to hide simply because it is not their right to obtain it. That sounds kind of like a communistic goverment to me, although I was say it sounds more like a tyrany that a commi goverment, (I veiw tyrany as worse) Dont you?
I will stop here and read the rest of the posts now, your comment just caught my eye..