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Since military planners aren't complete morons, their bases and airfields generally aren't plonked in the middle of residential areas, shoulder to shoulder with houses. Go look up Nellis or Beale AFB, and tell me how you're getting anywhere near the facilities across all that open ground before...

Because weapons can destroy factories better than the reverse? First you destroy the enemy's war fighting potential then you destroy their ability to replace it. If side A destroys side Bs factories, while side B destroys side As bases, side B can go after the enemy's factories at leisure...

So... Your strategy would be "Don't attack the enemy, to conserve ammo." What exactly are you saving it for? Also, why would resupply take longer than usual, when the fighting is at the end of the shortest logistics pipeline the armed forces have ever had?

Really? It certainly seems to me that nukes making war pointless is the biggest reason that military confrontation with the soviet union or China never eventuated. Do you have another explanation?

In all those situations, the US military was practically invulnerable to the enemy, and inflicted wildly, grossly disproportionate casualties. They suppressed the enemies ability to even gather in numbers, let alone seize or govern territory. They also eventually left those areas for political...

It's inaccurate to say they "kept the US military tied up". They managed to survive and occasionally mildly harass a small part of the US armed forces. To pretend that their was any kind of equality in their military positions is ridiculous. Yeah... I think I said that? Both sides will get some...

Any American civil war 2.0 would be largely decided within a week, 2 at most and almost entirely by how the armed forces split. Even if the split is fairly even somehow and the US armed forces end up a tenth their size, that tenth is enough to make actual organised armed resistance by whichever...