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Originally Posted by MDoranD
since this thread sucks really hard and its just 3 or 4 people trying to prove how smart they are by copy pasting MSNBC heres a real game
How long in days would it take the USA to take over certain countries. By take over, lets just go with a definition of conquering the countrys military. Other rules of this engagement is no nukes or WoMD allowed for either side, just military and their regular weaponry.
My initial thoughts to be expanded on as im sure you cant wait to hear are:
Mexico - 1.5 months
Canada - 3 months
Chile - 12 to 16 hours
Germany - 2 months
I wasn't going to post again in here and just skim, but this is pretty much a layup.
You have defined a situation where it would take MUCH longer than listed to conquer the countries military. I am defining conquer as removing any credible threat, and assume surrender is not an option. Any smart military will go gorilla when face overwhelming forces, or when the situation becomes untenable from a conventional standpoint. Gorilla warfare is an extremely asymmetric threat, and always leads to the larger force losing far more resources than the smaller force.
Asymmetric threats are one of the reason why armed conflict is so unattractive. They are just brutally effective. Even if you are not facing suicide bombers or terrorists (say like you invade Germany, and they do not want to hurt any German nationals and are not suicidal) you are just in a tough spot. You can kill everyone and raze everything, but other than that if the gorilla movement has popular support you are just corn holed. You are in for a very long fight where the enemy is spending a tiny fraction of the amount you are. And some place like Chile would be far worse than someplace like Germany because of the myriad areas of dense cover and sparsely populated regions that Germany does not have.