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Originally Posted by headquarters
I hope that people here arnt provoked when I say that the premiss for the original Red Dawn wasnt exactly credible either - the USSR wouldnt have a prayer if they tried to invade CONUS.Cuban auxilliaries or not .
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I had a headquarters job during my enlisted time, and there were many interesting conversations in that TOC. One of them was about Red Dawn. We discussed at length the challenges of invading the US, even given an absence of the use of nukes. It would be hard to imagine an American military more highly motivated than one defending our soil from the Red hordes in the 1980's. Getting the troops to fall back to trade space for time would be a problem in some cases. However, a Red "breakout" would mean driving into a sea of hostile armed civilians. Those poor guys had better hope they were captured by soldiers, who might feel somewhat bound by the Geneva Convention.
Still, the story makes a good right-wing fantasy. I still enjoy watching it from time to time.
Webstral