I think the idea that a fully armed Marine division is going to go head to head against a bunch of citizens they probably know and hang out with when on leave is mostly a liberal fantasy, not a conservative one.
I think the idea that a fully armed Marine division is going to go head to head against a bunch of citizens they probably know and hang out with when on leave is mostly a liberal fantasy, not a conservative one.
1. The logistical tail of modern military forces is very, very vulnerable and mostly operated by civilian contractors. Even if the Marines could be convinced to fight their fellow countrymen, that Marine division would likely never get there in the first place, but if it did, it would consume so much of its combat power protecting its own backside that it would be able to project very little of that power against an adversary.
2. Recognizing that the Marine division is just a metaphor (there are, in a best-case scenario, two of them), any large group of military forces deployed against Americans is likely to come from the National Guard. They have families and homes. So again, assuming they could be convinced to fight their fellow countrymen (there would be mutinies), they would not only have the logistics problem and the need to protect supply lines, they would also have an additional protection problem.
3. So realistically, internal power projection could only be done by smaller, more politically reliable units that could be convinced to follow higher HQ's orders. They would still have the logistics problem, but would be much easier to defeat if it ever came to that.
I think the idea that a fully armed Marine division is going to go head to head against a bunch of citizens they probably know and hang out with when on leave is mostly a liberal fantasy, not a conservative one.
1. The logistical tail of modern military forces is very, very vulnerable and mostly operated by civilian contractors. Even if the Marines could be convinced to fight their fellow countrymen, that Marine division would likely never get there in the first place, but if it did, it would consume so much of its combat power protecting its own backside that it would be able to project very little of that power against an adversary.
2. Recognizing that the Marine division is just a metaphor (there are, in a best-case scenario, two of them), any large group of military forces deployed against Americans is likely to come from the National Guard. They have families and homes. So again, assuming they could be convinced to fight their fellow countrymen (there would be mutinies), they would not only have the logistics problem and the need to protect supply lines, they would also have an additional protection problem.
3. So realistically, internal power projection could only be done by smaller, more politically reliable units that could be convinced to follow higher HQ's orders. They would still have the logistics problem, but would be much easier to defeat if it ever came to that.
That fact is why the Left is currently importing mercenaries across the open southern border.