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Originally Posted by Turboswede
O.K. I loved Red Dawn and played Fortress America...
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Fortress America! What a blast from the past. I used to make my little brother be the foreign invaders every time we played. Talk about an improbable scenario. It was still a fun game though.
Leg, gliders take a lot of practice to fly and land properly. In fact, it would probably be easier from a cost/logistics standpoint to train up a new regiment of parachute troops than to design and build a new type of military glider and train pilots to fly it (and train the "tug" pilots to tow it). I don't think gliders have been used in combat since WWII and there are definitely many good reasons for that. And towing gliders is one of the only things I don't think a C-130 has ever done before.
Benjamin, I'm not trying to shoot down your idea. I'm just trying to rationalize it in my own mind. How about this? Spetznaz, either parachuted in disguised as Americans or landed in a legit civilian airliner, take over an airport/airfield while Mexican commandos, infiltrated over the border in the months leading up to the invasion, attack radar installations along the follow-up flight path. This would allow a large force of parachute troops and/or just regular infantry to both drop from Mexican military aircraft and land in regular civilian jetliners. It could also allow some follow up resupply aircraft to sneak through. I think eventually, though, the USAF and ground based AA would be able to close that air corridor. But, for a couple of weeks, at least, the Soviet-Mexican (maybe Cuban also) airborne/airmobile force would be able to wreak havoc in Colorado.