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I think it was extraordinarily stupid of the military to do this nonsense. If it is their intent to intimidate the population....you showed your hand, pretty stupid. If it was a miscalcuation, then I would like to bop some brass in the head and say "The American public ARE NOT puppets in your war games!" Lets say this was all innocent and meant nothing malicious towards American citizens. How is the populace supposed to know that these are our guys and not some mexican drug lord flexing his muscles, they are bleeding lucky someone did not return fire. Now that could have been disastrous for all involved.

As for the US military fighting against Americans. The military could fight one or two regions adequately. There are several instances in history where that has shown to be possible. However in say a gun registration/confiscation plan I think the country is simply too vast to be able to handle and the number of people trained to do battle (ex-military/special ops/ etc etc) too many to be simply put down. So could they take over Houston say and make it happen....sure....can they take over Houston, and San Antonio, and Dallas, and Austin, and New Orleans etc etc etc, not to mention all the country side in between....doubtful. Remember Iraq only had a small percentage of our population, many less cities, and it took the entire might of our military to get anywhere near conquering it. Same with Afghanistan. If the powers that be think that they can do this they are entirely foolish and have not studied their history adequately. Most of us in the flyoever states are not from the kowtow and bend over and take it groups in the world. We are from the Scotch Irish tradition of "devil take it all I am not going down like this!"