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**baxodrom** · 08-29-2012, 11:31 PM

I don't think the US will ever be defeated militarily. That is, the overthrow of the US gov by a foreign power. It will NEVER happen. The size and geographical location of the country alone prevent this.

Just a thought...

'Ever' is a long time...now I agree, certainly not in my, or anyone else on this forums lifetime...but ever?

Two, three hundred years from now war may be fought on foot and horse back again, without even the technology of that used during the ACW.

There may be little or no fossil fuels left, so no petrol/diesel for the internal combustion engine, or kerosene for aviation...even the ingredients for gun powder may be exhausted...no plastics, no high grade alloys, no coal for steam locomotives, or even the quantities of wood required to construct fleets of sailing ships similar in size to that of the Napoleonic era Royal Navy (or at least these commodities would have to be sourced from so far away that their cost would make their use prohibative in large quantities)...

The US military reigns supreme as a result of it's greater quantity of superior war technologies, all based upon the use of these comododities...without them, no M1 tanks, no F22's, no cruise missiles...what happens to the US military's advantage then (or any other technicalogically superior military force)?

With no spy satellites in orbit any more how would the US defend itself from a surprise attack by a five million strong army of south americans invading through Mexico, fully equiped with identical weapons that the US forces have...cavalry with lances, infantry with spears and swords, and archers with bow & arrow?

May not get to this extreme, but then again who knows what the future holds...as I wrote above, 'ever' is a long time...and history shows us no nation's boundaries or soveriengty has remained unchanged for ever...

08-29-2012, 11:31 PM	#25
baxodrom Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 351 Senior Member	I don't think the US will ever be defeated militarily. That is, the overthrow of the US gov by a foreign power. It will NEVER happen. The size and geographical location of the country alone prevent this. Just a thought... 'Ever' is a long time...now I agree, certainly not in my, or anyone else on this forums lifetime...but ever? Two, three hundred years from now war may be fought on foot and horse back again, without even the technology of that used during the ACW. There may be little or no fossil fuels left, so no petrol/diesel for the internal combustion engine, or kerosene for aviation...even the ingredients for gun powder may be exhausted...no plastics, no high grade alloys, no coal for steam locomotives, or even the quantities of wood required to construct fleets of sailing ships similar in size to that of the Napoleonic era Royal Navy (or at least these commodities would have to be sourced from so far away that their cost would make their use prohibative in large quantities)... The US military reigns supreme as a result of it's greater quantity of superior war technologies, all based upon the use of these comododities...without them, no M1 tanks, no F22's, no cruise missiles...what happens to the US military's advantage then (or any other technicalogically superior military force)? With no spy satellites in orbit any more how would the US defend itself from a surprise attack by a five million strong army of south americans invading through Mexico, fully equiped with identical weapons that the US forces have...cavalry with lances, infantry with spears and swords, and archers with bow & arrow? May not get to this extreme, but then again who knows what the future holds...as I wrote above, 'ever' is a long time...and history shows us no nation's boundaries or soveriengty has remained unchanged for ever...
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