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How many BCTs?


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2021 Jun 29, 9:10pm   208 views  3 comments

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“Mr. President, since using force against American citizens is on the table, can you tell us how many BCTs the American military has currently deployable within the United States? Do you know how many troops are in a brigade combat team? Do you understand the logistical needs of a BCT and its vulnerabilities in an insurgency environment?”

A “BCT” is a brigade combat team, 4,000-5,000 troops and the basic ground combat unit. Now, if you are going to pick a fight with 165 million Americans, specifically the half who like America and who own a whole bunch of those accursed AR-15s, you might wanna know how many dudes you have on your side first (I estimate about 80 active and reserve BCTs and equivalents in the whole active and reserve force, including the Marines). One might also want to understand why you would have problems using them here at home.

“How many BCTs do you think you would need to secure an urban area the size of Los Angeles. Didn’t it take three divisions, about 12 brigades, to secure it during the Riots? How long could you logistically support that?”

It did take three divisions (approximately 12 BCTs) to quell the riot in LA in 1992. I was there. Now, that was largely idiots burning and looting. What if the next time it is guys shooting back with evil AR-15s? And America is a zillion times bigger than Los Angeles. How do you hold all that ground? You don’t.

“Have your generals staffed exactly how many American military personnel they could count on to attack American citizens if you ordered it? What percentage do you believe would comply and why?”

Oh, awkward. I was informed – by them, the geniuses in the Pentagon – that “extremists in the ranks” are our gravest threat (except for the weather, of course), so I assume they will have analyzed the number of “extremists” in the ranks who would be averse to killing their own friends and family at the behest of coastal elitists and who would desert or go full Niedermeyer on the guys urging them to wage war on the American people. This would be a good number to have as a planning factor, since when 50% of his troops go poof overnight, it would mean a significant reduction in the *’s combat power.

“You mentioned F-15s. How many bombers of all types does the United States have deployable within the continental US? How many are operational? How many sorties could the military fly a day against American citizens? Can you explain how you would employ bombers to hold territory, like a city?”

Bombers are nice. But if they were decisive, you could walk around Kabul without a dozen guys with AKs keeping your Schumer safe. We bombed Afghanistan back into the Stone Age – albeit, it was not much of a trip, but the point remains. You control dirt by having a guy with a rifle standing on it, not plinking at targets from 30,000 feet. And speaking of targeting…
https://patrick.net/post/1339899/2021-06-30-made-for-tv-racial-conflict

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1   Ceffer   2021 Jun 29, 10:29pm  

Problem with the military is that uniform loyalty would require a putsch to begin with. You can only standardize loyalty by killing or imprisoning the disloyal. Last I heard, the disloyal still amounted to 20 or 30 percent.

It's probably one of the reasons the military option is formidable because it would begin with an immediate, secret arrest and assassination of many in the ranks before they even did anything to anybody else.
2   Patrick   2021 Jun 29, 10:31pm  

I remember hearing that the Tiananmen massacre in 1989 was done by Chinese troops who were specifically selected from remote regions, with no family connections to Beijing.
3   Karloff   2021 Jun 29, 11:00pm  

Same reason they don't usually put cops on patrol in their own neighborhoods.

If you start seeing UN soldiers in your cities, you know they've declared all out war on you.

In Canada, Trudeau would be the one most likely to bring in PLA soldiers to enforce the tyranny.

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