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gregthehand wrote:

Oh and I know we are under a socio-economic invasion right now from Mexico. Unfortunaley we can't really fix that with bombs.

Texbow wrote:It's not masses of troops that we have to worry about. Think about the effects Katrina and just imagine what would happen if terrorist were to smuggle in several large dirty bombs and hit 4 or 5 major cities on the same day. A handful of terrorist could cause major civil unrest along with huge economic impacts. The goal is to attack our economy not our troops. Without money for beans and bullets our military is not much of a deterrent.

gregthehand wrote:While I think sometimes about the possibility of having to bear arms against an armed enemy of the United States here on our home turf, I just don't see that happening anytime really soon. Think about how many troops you would need just to pull off such an invasion. How in the World would you get them here without us noticing and the US military taking action? I guess the only fear we would have is if some goverment started putting it's troops at the Mexican border, and instead of attacking them while they were in transport our goverment, tried to pander and talk things down.

Once that happened though I know there would be a strong UN troop presence (probably US, Canadian, British, French, German, Japaneses, Aussie, and a few others) at the border waiting for them. Now I know if it was someone like China with there billions of people that they can throw wave after wave of people, but consider this. An ATACMS missle system can take out one grid square of troops at a time (that's one square kilometer). Basically to regiments of troops will/can occupy a grid square. That means with about 3-4 shots (2 launchers stationed at Ft Hood can pull that off in no time flat) you could make an entire division combat ineffective. That's just one system we have at our disposal. There are air wings, mine systems that are right out of star wars, the MOAB, and of course Artillery which has seen signifigant gains in the last 10 years. Go ahead and throw wave after wave. A private with a laptop is going to sit in a bomb shelter hundreds of miles away, look at you through the Air Forces UAV and sattelite screens, and then reccomend fire missions from artillery, air, and sea born at you all day long. This is called a "combat multiplier". One guy being able to kill very many of the enemy with one click of a mouse and some typing. If there is ever some huge troop build up at our border then you can bet they are going to really wish they were somewhere else should they head north. Parachuting is out of the question b/c as soon as a bunch of cargo planes get close and don't identify themselves they are getting shot down. Plus it would take a huge number of airborne troops to pull that off. Anyhow I could talk about this alllllll day since I used to work around such things but I'll digress.

Oh and I know we are under a socio-economic invasion right now from Mexico. Unfortunaley we can't really fix that with bombs.

- Greg-o
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