Armies are duty built to wage war. Simply having a gun does nothing to guarantee it's effective use.
For every example of David killing Goliath, there are tens of thousands of examples of Goliath ripping David's head off and stomping his entrails into mud. The isolated occurance of success is what makes those feats so great to begin with.
Agreed. However, I'd argue that most American hunters have more training in using modern rifles than the typical conscript in any "millions strong" army. One of the reasons behind American military dominance that is usually overshadowed by our technological prowess is the fact that we train incessantly. I'd put money on the fact that the average American hunter has fired a gun a lot more than the average Chinese/Russian conscript.
If you would actually read what I said - the only thing I dismiss is the notion that the hunters in this, or any other country, are gonna defeat a modern, invading army which was strong enough to defeat the U.S. military and still mount an invasion. That would mean that they had control of both the air and the sea and that our allies were not in a position to be of any assistance.
This country would be a hellhole and your idea of the "hunter army" doing anything other than finding enough food to live is pie in the sky.
And, to answer your question, the most likely scenario is economic and electronic war. Before this year is long gone, we may find our military subject to a $500,000,000,000 budget cut. We are well ahead of China technology, but that margin is rapidly narrowing.
China could exacerbate our already desperate financial situation through various means, including calling our debt. They push hard enough and we may be at the nuclear brink. On the other hand, our politicians may just roll over.
They get good with a piece over years of using it...but they are from from true shooters.
Guys with guns aren't an army...no matter how many of them there are.
Impressive numbers for sure, and shows we are still an armed population. But far from an "Army".
They don't want to play the economic card any more than we do. They can call our debt but we can stop buying their stuff. No one wins in this scenario and both nations realize it.
I'm afraid that simply shouting "buy American" from the rooftops isn't enough to win the struggle. People need to have economic incentive to buy American goods and we're not giving it to them. Why not? Unions, rising health care costs, etc. Before "Buy American" becomes a viable strategy, our companies will need to be placed back on the level ground that our "progressive" government has screwed them out of.
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