"John" wrote:

To deal with the US Army...
Use SUVs with anti-tank rockets and a millimetric radar mounted on the back.
In iraq US gunners opened fire at 5miles. Since the rounds travel at a
mile/second, this would give an SUV 5 seconds to dudge, which would be
simple with guidence from the radar. Meanwhile the top-attack missiles tear
through the thin turret roofs.

Except you'd need a *lot* of these, to make sure you had a decent force
survive after the initial artillery attacks from over the horizon.
Since they're soft targets, you could pretty much remove them from the
battlefield with a couple of loads of smart munitions. If you don't
have a lot of these SUV-type machines, you have to worry about
everything from bombs on down. Then you also have to worry about
command and control, which adds another couple of layers of complexity
to the issue.

Buy a few otto-76mm armed tanks with dual use
surface/air to deal with incomming aircraft/missiles/bombs/helicopters and
to rip enemy soldiers to pieces.

If you have anything less than a *lot* of armor, you're pretty much
screwed when it comes to maneuver warfare... and those tanks are also
vulnerable to pretty much everything else on the battlefield.

To deal with the US Air Force...
Buy old airliners and fit with reloadable missile launchers and modern AA
radar, counter measures, and refueling probe. Take old fighter designs, and
hang them fully fueled and armed from ballons. That'll multiply thier
endurance by a factor of ten at least. Fit search-radar in envelope and have
them patrol your boarder. Network them together and you'll have an end to
surprise US attacks.

Old airliners with radar signatures about the size of a medium-sized
mall. And by the time anyone manages to get any of these fielded,
they're going to have to worry about airborne lasers and hypervelocity
missiles.

To deal with the US Navy...
Buy old torpedos and fit to larch home made rockets (see X-prize
entries) with 50-100 mile range. Get the rockets to dump the torpedos
within a few miles of a nimitz carrier groups and you're garanteed to
blow up something *really* expensive!

....if you ever get the chance to shoot them. You're not going to see
carrier groups within a hundred miles of a hostile coast until well
after any reasonable defenses/offenses are pretty much toast.

Alternatively buy the following:
1 million RPG-7s
5 million RPG-7 rounds
10 million AK-74s
1 billion bullets
Distribute evenly through out your population, train them, set up a
Swiss-style monitoring system, and let the Americans invade. Then blow up
everything of value they own the second they let their guard down. They'll
leave in a few months and you can go back to normal.

This is assuming that the US is going to invade, say, Norway.

If the US is going to invade some place a couple of orders of magnitude
more likely (like Iran or Syria), you're never going to see anything
like a trained population. You're going to see, well, a lot of places
with the overall military presence of Iraq or Afghanistan. Which had
the armanents you speak of, but would *never* have the ability to let
the population get that strong, or a command structure that would
possibly let the populace get that into their heads. Look at Iraq,
Iran, Syria, North Korea, et al.

The weapons list above, by the way, is pretty close to what we ran into
in Iraq. Notice how nothing like what you suggest ever happened.

Alternatively fly a few airliners into american nuclear power stations. The
aftermath of multiple chernobles will destroy America as an effective
strategic power.

Not so much. For one thing, you'd ignoring the fact that *nobody* could
manage that any more with any hope of success. For another, you'd have
to hope that an airliner *could* cause that sort of damage (modern
containment domes were designed, in part, to prevent just that). Even
in the worst case, you're looking at limited damage and a loss of some
power generation capability, not a reduction in strategic power.

The other thing is that any country or series of countries that even
tried it would be erased from the face of the Earth, at least
militarily, and everyone who even had a vague suspicion of being
involved would be in much deeper **** than anyone seems to be able to
imagine. Remember when all of the terror folks thought the US would
fold right after 9/11, and we started ripping everyone new assholes?
Multiply that by a hundred.

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