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You haven’t got a fucking clue what you are asking for, do you? Calm down. If that happened, you’d be begging for a return to what we have now. None of us have any idea what a Civil War would truly be like for us. The only image we can get is by peering through the history books to see the...

Before we proceed, gentlemen, we must emphasise that this is not a recruiting ground. Any talk of militia is purely theoretical and goes no further because I promise the lot of you, you do not want a Civil War. With that out of the way, any militia would do best operating as guerillas in the...

“Fight Covid-19 in the future.” Fight what exactly? Even Europe and Britain have moved on from this crap.

In a long term civil war I do think it would develop into a conventional war. Rebels only engage in partisan and irregular activities until they are strong enough to meet their foes in battle, and when that happens? By this point rebel groups are ludicrously battle hardened, motivated, and well...

The use of nuclear weapons on homeland soil is not technically impossible, but it is sodding improbable. Anyone daft enough to try and push the big red button would probably be stopped by their own generals!

It’s funny. Many on the American left would call righties secessionists and terrorists desperate for civil war, whereas the general consensus on here is “God forbid.” As an Englishman thinking of ever growing division in my country, let me also say “God forbid.” The last Civil War for us was...

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, but even though a Civil War wouldn’t be one sided (Commando Units could be used to devastating effect against insurgents), it would be an absolute nightmare for the Federal Government. Woodsmen alone can basically turn entire counties into no-go zones, and...

I think if the powder keg went off (God willing it never will), a lot of the “Purple” states may dissolve into something truly hideous.

Or worse, they’ve a genuinely held conviction that society would be safer if they took the guns away. Given how in Britain we traded our weapons for a safer society, and now have knife crime going through the roof, I’m not so sure about that conviction.

As I understand it, the core of such an insurgency would be woodsmen. And they'd be a total nightmare to deal with because the bastards can basically just disappear off the face of the Earth whilst taking all their weapons and ammunition with them. Weapons they are very accurate with, I might...

There are Roman Emperors who proved themselves more trustworthy than most modern governments. No step on snake.

Literally just dump a sufficiently large rock or lump of concrete on a railway line, and that's rail travel in your area fucked for quite a few hours. God forbid the insurgents have a few sticks of dynamite with which they can really screw up a railway. Even if you get prisoners to...

Oh absolutely. Civil War or not, this economic system won't survive past 2050. They've scarcely got fumes to keep it going as it is.

Whilst direct overthrow isn't something you can necessarily do without pitched battle, an insurgency can most certainly force the government to its knees and, perhaps, force a surrender or negotiations.

I think his argument might be that in order to win the war outright you need to defeat government forces in the field, which isn't entirely untrue. Case in point of that is, after they got strong enough, the Continental Army went toe to toe with the redcoats. The problem is that the insurgents...

The better question is what would possess an insurgent to face government forces head on? That's not how guerrilla warfare works as every guerrilla leader knows they'd lose in a straight fight so they have to be cunning. That's not to say the Federal Army would be a pushover, indeed it would...

I reckoned as much, but this would be a hypothetical scenario. As I understand it, (much as it was in the American War of Independence), dedicated light infantry/commandos make absolute mincemeat of irregular guerrillas.

If anything the biggest danger to the Rebels in this instance, even the woodsmen, would be commandos. Small, highly mobile forces that can go off the grid and survive quite nicely, they are almost woodsmen themselves except far better equipped and with a stronger chain of command. If the...