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If CivGov wanted to really score some points with the "Folks back home" they'd do their own "Going Home"/Operation: Omega and pull troops out of europe and redeploy them to the southwest and Alaska to fight the Mexicans and Russians, respectively, and as much as possible pull out as much heavy equipment as they could, then use it as a propaganda win.

"The illegal 'Military Government' is still sending troops to Europe - We're bringing our boys back to defend the homefront! Support the legally, democratically elected government of the United States of America! Reject the military junta that threatens the republic!"

If they did this as news of the "Final Offensive" of the 5th Division began to filter back they'd surely win big; CivGov troops come home, in good order, rolling tanks, APCs and other equipment off whatever ships, flags flapping in the breeze, units being prepared for redeployment, etc. etc.

Then three months later, a ragtag bunch of soldiers with nothing but the guns they're carrying come staggering off a bunch of ships and are then set loose...

It'd be a huge blow to MilGov on the public opinion front, and as strange as it might seem I would think public opinion would matter a great deal: what cantonment is Farmer brown taking his last functional tractor, three strong sons, and a couple tons of wheat to? The CivGov one or the MilGov one?

Of course all of that is predicated on the notion that CivGov could scrape together the sea-lift to do an "Operation: Omega" to begin with...