Reply #28: Your not thinking deeply enough guerrilla tactics

[virginia mountainman]

Your thinking a head on confrontation with a tanks and APCs, "one on one" if the USA gave way to tyranny, and enough people, with basic marksmanship skills and super common hunting rifles could make the aggressors life a living hell.

First off, their is not enough tanks, armored humvees and APCs to be everywhere at once, certainly not in every town, nor more than a couple in every county in the US.

And what about the fuel tankers, parts trucks, even the men that maintain them...They are ALL, unarmored. Yes, when they assault, an area, the "freedom fighters" would be wise to take to the woods. But your forgetting the sheer size of the logistics involved, in instituting nationwide marshall law, and even then, a significant portion, if not MOST of the military would probably defect, with their equipment to outside.

A dozen men, with "normal" levels of marksmanship in a mountainous region, with common high powered hunting rifles, and a chainsaw, could close a rural road for a very long time, they could even stop ARMORED TRAFFIC, for a good while

Your forgetting the first premise of guerrilla warfare, you don't attack, your enemy, where he is strong (his armored vehicles, and bases) you attack him where he is weak (when he is out giving speeches to the masses, cutting wires, shooting electrical transformers, attacking unarmored support vehicles, killing sympathizer and maintenance men where they sleep and live, shooting holes in fuel trucks, and sniping truck drivers, derailing trains in the middle of nowhere, etc etc...the list of potential "soft" targets goes on and on, without fuel, spare parts, and Ammo, those tanks and APC's are USELESS.

Yes, we would suffer loses, but the aggressors life would be a living hell, and in the long run, we would win.

EDIT, Somthing to think about...

"JUDEN HABEN WAFFEN!"

"I, myself, remained on the balcony and fired at the confused and embarrassed Germans with my Mauser. From my balcony, I could see them in all their helplessness and their loss of control. The air was full of wails and shouts. Many of them tried to run to the walls of the houses for cover but everything was barred and beyond that, death was pursuing them. In the noise, the fluster, and the cries of the wounded, we heard the astonished outcry of one of the Germans: 'Juden haben waffen! Juden haben waffen!' ('The Jews have arms!') . . . The battle lasted for about a half an hour. The Germans withdrew and there were many corpses and wounded in the street." -- Recollection of the opening engagement on 19 April 1943 of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Haim Frymer, Jewish Fighting Organization, quoted in Resistance by Israel Gutman, New York, 1994, pp. 206-207.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising