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Originally Posted by ArmySGT.
So somehow Mexico has produced the assets......
Refined fuels in the 100,000s of thousands of gallons per day to support three or more Corps level armored thrusts.
Generated Corps level Supply, Maintenance, Refuel, and Transportation Battalions. A ratio of 10 support troops to one combat arms that goes up to 15 to 1, and 25 to 1 the more sophisticated the equipment.
Generated several Corps of garrison troops to occupy a few million miles of occupied territory comprising the American southwest.
Generated the rations to support troops in occupied territory.
Overwhelmed the U.S. forces on Active duty throughout the U.S. southwest and lower central united states.
Ft. Huachucha, Ft Bliss, Ft Hood, Ft Sill, Ft Carson, White Sands Missile Range, Toole Army Depot, 29 Palms, NTC ..... Air Force assets like Nellis Air Force base (where air dropped nuclear weapons) any of which fully supports National Guard and multi service and joint service full spectrum training.
A force which in peace time dwarfs the Mexican armed forces in just personnel.
There is no logical reason the Mexican army could gain a foot hold past Interstate 10 regardless of the number of drug traffickers and human smugglers assisting them.
The situation is the way the authors wanted the situation to be because a United States locked in a chaotic internal strife was and is great story material.
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So you know ArmySgt I agree with many of your points - and you can see that Fort Bliss really held them up - it was one of the main places their invasion bogged down while the School Brigade held them up - and also shows how they probably didnt have MBT's - because while AA weapons can really do the job on APC's and armored cars they wont do much against an MBT - if they had those they should have just rolled right over Bliss
and also looking at their stop point in the invasion I am betting that they never took 29 Palms - that given the fight the Marines would have given them for Pendleton that by 29 Palms they would have been running out of steam and they got stopped dead just north of Palm Springs
And the 49th is at Fort Sill so they never got there
You have to wonder how many troops were still at those facilities - the Marines have basically sent everyone they had overseas except trainers and logistics troops, the Navy doesnt train its guys for ground combat (thats what the Marines are for), and many of the Air Force bases would be down to minimal personnel with the deployments overseas
But Sill and Bliss definitely would have been very hard nuts to crack with the schools there - and no matter what types of Marines are at 29 Palms and Pendleton as to combat or logistics and training formations, all Marines are riflemen first and foremost - they wouldnt have given up those bases without one hell of a fight