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Space marine armor doesn't have ECM. It has a number of sensors, comms gear, targetting systems, but ECM isn't on of them, and we know that because there's a specific variant of marine armor that's explicitly listed as having ECM equipment, namely the omni-scrambler used on some patterns of...

Not likely. There's been a number of planets conquered by the imperium that were called "Terra", many of which the locals insisted was in fact the real Terra, having forgotten their true history over the age of strife. They'd probably just assume the same here, particularly as they likely have...

Iraq collapsed when we rolled tanks into Bagdad, the air war helped achieve that but Sadam didn't surrender until we sent ground forces in to crush him, nor did that air power succeed in preventing further, constant resistance from the local population. I don't know much about nam, but just...

Which will be "never". Strategic bombing has never successful broken the will of a country and forced them to surrender (it worked once, in a dictatorship where they only needed to crack one guy, and even then it was close).

I knew this premise sounded familiar. My answer there hasn't changed, space marines likely cannot force capitulation without resorting to means that leave the earth bombed into uselessness.