Could this really happen?

2014-08-23T23:40:50-04:00

This is the intro to the 2011 Video Game Homefront I think it's interesting and wanted to share it with you & also see how many of you think this or something similar could really happen.

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Aug 23 at 2014 11:44 PM

2014-08-23T23:44:47-04:00

Personally, I peaked at Pong.

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Aug 23 at 2014 11:46 PM

2014-08-23T23:46:51-04:00

In 1984, the intro to Red Dawn did this same stuff. Not even close.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 23 at 2014 11:48 PM

2014-08-23T23:48:17-04:00

I liked that game a lot. It was eerily foreboding though..

Response by SSG V. Michelle Woods made Aug 23 at 2014 11:52 PM

2014-08-23T23:52:51-04:00

I don't play video games but the YouTube video was sick as hell! Yes, I do think something of that nature is possible.

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 24 at 2014 12:03 AM

2014-08-24T00:03:48-04:00

No not with all the arms private individuals have in America. And China would never allow Korea to have more power then them.

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 24 at 2014 12:25 AM

2014-08-24T00:25:48-04:00

Could happen but not likely a lot of things would have to go wrong for us and right for the other side. I think a delayed insurgency is more likely rather than direct invasion.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 24 at 2014 12:28 AM

2014-08-24T00:28:53-04:00

Could this happen today? No. Could it happen within the next half century? Possibly. The short and sweet version of why is because there currently isn't any military on the planet that has the ability to project military force onto the continental United States. It's not enough to have a large fighting force, but the ability to project it and supply it for the duration of it's mission and there isn't a nation on the planet aside from us that has the capability. All this doesn't even consider the lunacy of facing a guaranteed American insurgency, or the impracticality of placating a nation as big as ours.

In short, we can be attacked, but short of WMDs entering the equation it will be a very long time before there are any nations with the capability to hold any stretch of the continental U.S. for any protracted period of time.

Response by SSG Robert Burns made Aug 24 at 2014 12:28 AM

2014-08-24T00:28:55-04:00

Childs play.
http://www.callofduty.com/advancedwarfare

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, developed by Sledgehammer Games, harnesses the first three-year, all next-gen development cycle in franchise history. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare envisions the powerful battlegrounds of the future, where both technology and tactic have evolved to usher in a new era of combat for the franchise. Delivering a stunning performance, Academy Award winning actor Kevin Spacey stars as Jonathan Irons – one of the most...

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 24 at 2014 12:33 AM

2014-08-24T00:33:25-04:00

"North Korea's only chance of winning any war depends on how quickly it can end one."
Their planes are crap. Their pilots lack training. They do, however, have the advantage of manpower, especially since it's been decided that US dollars can best be spent on stuff besides financing a standing defense (cutbacks!)

1)$98,257 for a shuttle from a congressman's hometown to DC.
2)$200,000 for a tattoo removal program in California
3)$254,000 grant for the Montana Sheep Institute
4)$1.24 million for tree snake control in Guam
5)$15 million gift for Ireland

We can see where our priorities lay. EMP attack? Meh. Biological weapons? Meh. 180,000 North Korean Special Forces? Meh. *shrugs* But the DOJ needs those private jets!

Response by SCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 24 at 2014 12:49 AM

2014-08-24T00:49:39-04:00

It does give a lot of food for thought, but I do not see it happening any time soon. As said before, none of our adversaries have the possibility to hit us CONUS. The biggest problem is no one really knows WTF either Korea might do. I mean really talk about a mentally unstable government. That is the issue, frankly if anyone would be stupid enough to use a nuclear weapon it would be North Korea.

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Aug 24 at 2014 1:04 AM

2014-08-24T01:04:47-04:00

See what you started PFC Eric Minchey ? It's pandemonium up in here!!! Post another video of this modern game stuff and we might go to DEFCON III.....lol

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Aug 24 at 2014 1:09 AM

2014-08-24T01:09:33-04:00

Here is an explanation of WW III from the 1984 Version. Enjoy...................
http://youtu.be/5Qc8jJ0TjSY

Red Dawn (1984) Scene- The Colonel explains how the invasion happened

Airforce Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner explains to the Wolverines how the invasion started. Video copyright MGM/UA Entertainment Co. distribution on this channel fo...

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 24 at 2014 11:10 PM

2014-08-24T23:10:39-04:00

I think anyone that would care to do this country any harm knows that trying to show up on our soil with an organized, uniformed force knows that they'd get vaporized before they got within 1000 miles. Everyone knows that the only way to take us down is through subversive tactics and causing us to implode... oh hey.. wait a minute..

Response by Sgt Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 19 at 2014 6:08 AM

2014-12-19T06:08:49-05:00

Japan SURRENDERED? TO NORTH KOREA?!! I would imagine they would all commit ritual suiside before this would happen. (N/S Korea/Japan/China have a lot of hate toward one another . . . some more than others)

On a side note, I seem to remember reading news a couple of times in the past decade or so, about Japanese quietly/stealthily re-arming ever so slightly pushing the boundries of the treaty that's keeping them from doing just that.

That would make all four countries, with a web of hate between them, slowly re-investing into their military . . . hmmm. I think our eyes heve been too fixed at the middle east.

Or it might be nothing . . . hard to tell.

Response by Capt Richard I P. made Dec 21 at 2014 12:05 PM

2014-12-21T12:05:29-05:00

PFC Eric Minchey No. It could not really happen. I won't even give it the generous "remotely possible" that SGT Private RallyPoint Member did.

The bird flu, the economic shocks, civil disintegration in America? Those could happen. But an invasion by any foreign power cannot.

Many people profoundly misunderstand the difference between American military power and our next closest peers. Understand this: there is no alliance of foreign powers (even China+Russia) that could get a large enough military force across the oceans past even half of our Navy to land and oppose even a third of our Army (notice I left out three of our branches and about 55% of the ones I mentioned-and also all the private armament of the US citizenry). There has never been a more imbalanced geopolitical power structure EVER. Nor is it likely to happen again. This is a unique confluence of geography, money and culture.

We face many challenges, but invasion by hostile forces short of extraterrestrials or hyper-intelligent AI is not among them. The idea may make for entertaining fiction, and my suspicion is it makes it easier to swallow a just reason to shoot your fellow humans in the face (other than the tried and true Aliens! Terrorists! Nazis! Zombies! Nazi Zombies! ).