Originally Posted by
Victor
Couple of things......
1. US was not defeated in the war of 1812. Washington burned. But the war was won by the US.
2. An untrained and outnumbered militia that had very little domestic support defeated the British the first time around.
3. There were plenty of VC running around after Tet.
4. While not the mainland...read here.....
Aleutian Islands Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and here for some Japanese thoughts......
Isoroku Yamamoto - Wikiquote
5. No resistance? 320 million people approx in the US. Approx 80 million gun owners. Lets say 90% of them don't resist and or turn in what they have. That leaves 8 million gun owners that are hard
core and determined. Sorry.....you can bet there is going to be domestic resistance.
The War of 1812 was at best a draw, neither side got exactly what they wanted and the only major battle the US won was after the peace treaty was signed. You also have to understand that the war was going on at the time Great Britain was fighting Napoleon in Europe ( a war that mattered), at best the US was was a side show.
What happened in 1776 has little to do with today. Even there without French support there would be no USA today.
Tet destroyed the native South vietnamese VC, the guys running around after that offensive were northerners. If anything it just made the final north win that much easier since there was no large local militia anymore to have to listen to. That whole war showed that the military even in victory didn't have the support of the very people you exepct now to fight that kind of battle in their backyard without superior tech.
Japan could never land troups or support them anywhere in mainland US.
By no resistance I mean nothing like you seen in an Asian war where the population will fight for dacades and lose a million or more people to a determined occupation. The US took out over a million Vietnamese and they never gave up, I don't think the people around here could stomache a long war like that in their back yards taking those kind of casulties and still keep fighting.
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