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I just saw the movie Red Dawn, where eight American high school kids launch a guerilla war against an occupying army (the occupiers are Russians and Cubans). So, I started wondering, if your country was invaded, and you found yourself behind enemy lines, what would you do?

Sneak onto one of their base, and just unload clip after clip of ammunitions onto them! :sniper: :mp5: :gundge:

Hoo RAH!

I just saw the movie Red Dawn, where eight American high school kids launch a guerilla war against an occupying army (the occupiers are Russians and Cubans). So, I started wondering, if your country was invaded, and you found yourself behind enemy lines, what would you do?

I would fight them without so much bad acting or dialogue.

Wait until it's all over.

I just saw the movie Red Dawn, where eight American high school kids launch a guerilla war against an occupying army (the occupiers are Russians and Cubans). So, I started wondering, if your country was invaded, and you found yourself behind enemy lines, what would you do?

Go to Mexico. :p

I would fight them without so much bad acting or dialogue.
I'd sell them fatty foods. Making them too fat to fight.

Depends upon the new administration. If I didn't like it, I would flee to another country. If I liked it, I would collaborate.

Loss of soveriegnty is the governments problem, not mine.

Well, I'd probably just hide in my basement and be glad about my two month supply of food and water...

J'aurais capitulé. C'est la vie.

I would fight them, only I would take advantage of modern technology and do a few other things to fight them. For instance, I would:
Rig every vehicle in sight as a remote-controlled kamikaze truck (if necessary, make my way down to San Francisco and obtain aid from Mythbusters)
Employ rocket attacks
Broadcast pictures of civilian atrocities online
Assassinate enemy commanders (Colenol Bella is going DOWN!)
Employ "Who Me" on a massive scale

Guerilla warfare! Definitely.

Invaded by whom? That, and their practices during and after the invasion, would determine my reaction.

I don't particularly like the current gang of fools and murderers running the show, but I do appreciate the democratic elements, however marginal, and the protections for personal freedom. Anyone who tried to get rid of those elements would probably get me opposed to them, but the precise means, if any, I would use to express that opposition would depend on the circumstances.

Everyone who says 'fight' is batshit insane, a soldier, or massively overestimating their own courage and skill.

Sniper attacks, roadside bombs, recruit people for suicide missions, shoot collaborators, sabotage.

Guerilla warfare iam a damn good shot

Everyone who says 'fight' is batshit insane, a soldier, or massively overestimating their own courage and skill.

It's easy to be brave in the Wardroom.

Let us assume, for the moment, that they are neither democratic nor genocidal.

the U.K invaded? the only thing we can offer is Tea and chavs who wants that?

if I found myself behind enemy lines I'd be too lazy to do a guerrilla war especially with 8 people that sounds like far too much work I would just do passive resistance were a large group of people sit around doing nothing all day maybe getting up around afternoon to go march somewhere (hopefully a café that does good baguettes)

Oh, and I am probably insane. That, and my moral code often says that killing is the right thing to do.

Sneak onto one of their base, and just unload clip after clip of ammunitions onto them! :sniper: :mp5: :gundge:

Hoo RAH!


Magazines hold more rounds, and usually guns with magazines can be fired a little faster.

the U.K invaded? the only thing we can offer is Tea and chavs who wants that?

I would invade the U.K. for Tea and Kiera Knightley.

And some biscuits.

I would invade the U.K. for Tea and Kiera Knightley.

And some biscuits.
Fuck the tea and biscuits!

I would invade the U.K. for Tea and Kiera Knightley.

And some biscuits.

bah you can get all these by visiting my grandmother with your eyes closed (that is so very wrong)

Fuck the tea and biscuits!

what about Kiera Knightley?

Fuck the tea and biscuits!

I was hoping to fuck the other thing, actually.

Assuming I didn't like the change...Guerilla warfare.

I have a neighbor with a damn armory in his basement...he'll loan me damn near whatever I want.

The key, though, is sabotage. I know all the back ways, side-streets, and hidden trails around here. I can think of some pretty nasty things I could do to basic infastructure if I can get my hands on any kind of explosives.

That, and I do happen to know the best sniping spot in town. :D

Guerilla warfare.

Mind you, probably not running around with an AR-15. Probably more cold-blooded things... molotov cocktails on patrols, assassinating any soldiers in small groups(walk by, wait till they pass, pull out the pistol...), etc.

Although, if I could get some friends to help, I might try to raid a tank... snipe any top gunner/commander who's above the armour, and any surrounding infantry, then mass the tank and try to either kill the people inside, or ruin the treads, viewports, barrel, etc...

Gah...why try to attack the tank, when you can pour sugar or sand in the gas tank while it's sitting in the motor pool? :)

I've be the first to admit I'm a coward, I'm getting on the nearest mode of transport for a neutral country preferably which is more powerful than the agresssor.

You all wannable soldiers carry on.

Take advantage of the chaos, form a commune, and tell both sides to lick our collective balls.

Meh.

My life would pretty much be screwed anyways, if we got invaded. Job gone, house probably gone, schooling pretty much over, etc...

I'd at least get to have some fun before I died.

Take advantage of the chaos, form a commune, and tell both sides to lick our collective balls.

Screw what I said earlier. That's the way to go.

Screw what I said earlier. That's the way to go.

:D

I'd like to change my answer to Kanabia's idea. I would also speak French, as it would really piss of the Mercans. I noes they comming for our oil!

I am a sucky fighter and I don't like the idea of dying so I won't. I tend to doubt that guerillas have a good life expectancy. Of course I will try to remain somewhat loyal to my own original side, but I am not a martyr, especially not when it will do little good.

Guerilla warfare is teh pwnage. It is awesome. However I would first see if the invading power is to my liking. It probably won't be, because it is invading (militarism is a big downer. Unless my country sucks, which it doesn't). Then I could be a 'saboteur' and fufill my dreams of attaining the title since playing the game on my old Amstrad... I could even wear the face mask...

I am a sucky fighter and I don't like the idea of dying so I won't. I tend to doubt that guerillas have a good life expectancy. Of course I will try to remain somewhat loyal to my own original side, but I am not a martyr, especially not when it will do little good.
Guerilla's life expectancy is somewhat lower than a civilian, yet significantly higher than a soldiers. You look like a civilian, act like a civilian, and are in fact a civilian, except that you break shit and throw stones while they aren't looking. If you are caught, you run away. I would expect that refugees would have a similar life expectancy. Bascially you make it too expensive to stay, so that when the invading force balances it's marginal benefits and costs of occupying, the costs take the cup.

I'd opt for guerilla/saboteur, or be a little proactive, and travel to the invaders country and assume the title of 'terrorist'. Only marginally more dnagerous (less numbers to blend in with, yet less soldiers to catch you), yet significantly more effective as political leverage. Also somewhat more morally reprehensible for those who care.

I would convince other guys to become suicide bombers, then I would date their girlfriends.

I'd fight them in time honoured fashion (hide - potshot - run) and the old "Would ye ever look after me bag there, while I'm in the jacks - you're a lovely man, god bless ye".

No doubt the Israel supporters here would practice what they preach by informing on resisters, demolising their own houses, and volunteering their g/fs and wives/husbands for Primus Noctis.

I have no allegiance to the current bunch of self-serving ingrates we have in charge, so unless the invaders were significantly worse I'd not care. If the invaders were significantly better I'd help them. Britain's been invaded, one way or another, often enough before, and it's done us no harm.

I'd be quite upset if they tried to get rid of Queenie & Co, though.

Hmm, the poll has no "profit as best able" option.

Everyone who says 'fight' is batshit insane, a soldier, or massively overestimating their own courage and skill.

Depends on what "fight" means. Civilians who remained behind enemy lines during WWII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance) to engage in resistance, sabotage, and other activities played a crucial role in assisting the Allied forces to victory. These were most certainly couragous and skillful people.

Infiltrate the administrative centers of the invaders.

Intelligence is the yummiest tool in warfare,
and there's no place to glean it like in administrative centers.

Man, I dont know why anyone would want to invade Canada, there's nothing here but a bunch of snow up north and a lot of empty space.

But I would probably turn to guerilla warfare, so I could atleast say I tried.

If your country were invaded, what would you do?


After securing a fedora and scarf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jean_Moulin.jpg), I would make for the nearest resistance establishment to engage in propaganda, sabotage, and other assorted behaviors generally associated with sedition. Since the odds of death in such a situation tend to be extremely high anyway, one might as well try to do something good in the time one has. (edit: of course, all of this is assuming that the regular military forces are no longer effective. Invasion by a foreign enemy is probably the only kind of situation where I would we willing to volunteer. Then again, having been required to register with Selective Service, I would probably have been "volunteered" long before anyway. In my ideal state, anyway, Selective Service and the professional military wouldn't exist, as simply being a citizen would mean answering the call to defend voluntarily and without hesitation. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia))

And this is the answer even if the invading force isn't that objectionable ideologically speaking. War and invasion are necessarily offensive, coercive, violent, and involuntary activities; I cannot support any such thing, even if I agree with every other aspect of the invader's ideology. And besides that, in warfare the enemy is always demonized as the ultimate evil; the invaders will be trying to kill me, and everyone else like me, simply because I am necessarily the "enemy" as I occupy the territory they wish to take. Thus, who believes what ideology is completely irrevelant. My life is in danger, and I will do what I can to defend it.

I'd go to the zoo, hand weapons to the gorilla's and send them after the enemy. Gorilla warfare ownz guerilla warfare :p

Seriously though, I wouldn't know. And if my country ever were invaded, I'd hardly want the agressors to be able to google and find out I'd plan to oppose them.

"I for one would welcome our new alien overlords"

I love that movie.:)

Of course guerilla warfare. I would fight the occupiers with every breath I had and wouldnt stop until they or I were dead.

I'd fight them with everything I've got! :sniper: :mp5: :gundge:

Gun smileys would scare the *bleep* out of any invaders. :D

Obviously guerilla warfare. Who wants to help the invaders?

Komyunizumu']Obviously guerilla warfare. Who wants to help the invaders?Depends on who they are and why they're invading. Maybe they want to depose an evil dictator that somehow took over.

I'd already be dead because i would grab my 9 guage hand cannon and go to the beaches

I voted aid the guerillas. I'd like to think that I'd be out shooting at the invaders, but frankly, I'm probably not that brave. But I would oppose them by helping the people who WERE fighting them.

Depends on who they are and why they're invading. Maybe they want to depose an evil dictator that somehow took over.

Yeah, and we saw how well that worked out in Iraq.

Komyunizumu']Yeah, and we saw how well that worked out in Iraq.


Still, if you were a Kurd you'd be delighted.
So - there.

If Canada were invaded (an actual invasion, not some abstract foreign war which 'might' mean the downfall of Canada), I would volunteer for the conventional forces and help out as best I could. Assuming that defense fails, and I'm somehow still alive and not in a labour camp, I'll either get along as best I can, or retreat to a friendly nation and work with our gov. in exile.

I would do non-suicide guerilla fighting. I'll set up bombs or snipe people, and run off for the next attack. No point using myself once.

That said, if the occupiers were better than my country Canada's current system (PFEH!), I'd probably smile and nod with them.

Or maybe if I ran for office in the invading country's leadership. XD

I just saw the movie Red Dawn, where eight American high school kids launch a guerilla war against an occupying army (the occupiers are Russians and Cubans). So, I started wondering, if your country was invaded, and you found yourself behind enemy lines, what would you do?


Collaborate! I do not believe things can be much worse but have a chance to get better. (I am probably the least patriotic person in a 100 radius :) )

It would depend entirely upon the reasons for the invasion. If they were deposing somebody due to what he had done (hitler) i would aid them in removing him/her. If they were invading for the sake of invading. i'm going into the mountains with a high powered rifle and scope and taking out officers as they move through the passes to get to other cities.

Besides, if anyone attacked America they'd just activate Def Con 5.

Throw hot soup onto my enemies. That'll keep them away from my home.

Let's imagine an scenario, even one possible due to the current circumstances. It is an scenario that I have imagined a lot lately, and I even have plans if that ever happens.

My dear president, the underrated and understimated Hugo Chávez, finally drops the last screw holding the few reason he has left in his brain and declares war on the USA, or makes someting pretty stupid and my country gets invaded by the powerful USA military.

Well, first, during the invasion and the war (being perfectly rational it would perhaps last for a few days, at least no more than two weeks), I would seek refuge in the spanish embassy, finding a safe spot against military actions. My status as a spanish citizen can make this part easy, and I have already talked with diplomatic personnel to assure I'll be accepted inmediately.

After the "war", or invasion is over, guessing the United Staters managed to defeat easily the venezuelan armed forces, and guerrilla forces are formed to resist the occupation, I would "join" the invaders, but in a special way that could be also aiding the guerrillas...

I mean, I would help to form a new goverment, helping moderate groups, that could please both parties, and also the rebuild of the country as far as I could. That would also imply the inmediate withdrawal of all US forces in our territory, of course. Guerrillas are going to molest a lot, but they are not going to kick the US forces out of our land. Instead of using weapons to make them leave, I would join the efforts to do that using diplomacy, as in convincing them to leave after everything is over, that we can manage the rest by ourselves and the kind of stuff the current iraqui Prime Minister is doing. That could be seen as perhaps working alongside the invaders, but with the same objetive as the guerrillas in mind...

What do you think?

Buy myself a nice AK-47 rifle and in the name of my ancesters, open fire on any enemy asshole that comes near my barbed-wire hidey hole.

What do you think?

Think? *swoon*

Think? *swoon*

Thanks, thanks, but really, what do you think? Am I a patriot or a traitor for thinking that way?

Thanks, thanks, but really, what do you think? Am I a patriot or a traitor for thinking that way?

Patriot, imho. Chávez is the traitor to the Venezulan people in my mind.

No comments on my plans to obtain aid from the Mythbusters?

For review, my plans involve using the Mythbusters' expertise to create legions of remote controlled vehicles laden with explosives.

One of the side benefits of the invasion and subsequent lawlessness and resistance and chaos is that you can take out that list you've been keeping under your pillow, and exact your revenge on them.

Not legal, but in such a scenario, anything goes.

At worst, it would be seen as "civilians killed by death squads <blame invader or insurgents here>"

And most likely, it wouldn't even be noticed.

Lets go to


MEXICO

thats were i would go if the U.S was invaded or ohio!

I'd probably campaign against the invaders in a non-violent (or at east not to people) way.

Let's imagine an scenario, even one possible due to the current circumstances. It is an scenario that I have imagined a lot lately, and I even have plans if that ever happens.

My dear president, the underrated and understimated Hugo Chávez, finally drops the last screw holding the few reason he has left in his brain and declares war on the USA, or makes someting pretty stupid and my country gets invaded by the powerful USA military.

Well, first, during the invasion and the war (being perfectly rational it would perhaps last for a few days, at least no more than two weeks), I would seek refuge in the spanish embassy, finding a safe spot against military actions. My status as a spanish citizen can make this part easy, and I have already talked with diplomatic personnel to assure I'll be accepted inmediately.

After the "war", or invasion is over, guessing the United Staters managed to defeat easily the venezuelan armed forces, and guerrilla forces are formed to resist the occupation, I would "join" the invaders, but in a special way that could be also aiding the guerrillas...

I mean, I would help to form a new goverment, helping moderate groups, that could please both parties, and also the rebuild of the country as far as I could. That would also imply the inmediate withdrawal of all US forces in our territory, of course. Guerrillas are going to molest a lot, but they are not going to kick the US forces out of our land. Instead of using weapons to make them leave, I would join the efforts to do that using diplomacy, as in convincing them to leave after everything is over, that we can manage the rest by ourselves and the kind of stuff the current iraqui Prime Minister is doing. That could be seen as perhaps working alongside the invaders, but with the same objetive as the guerrillas in mind...

What do you think?

I'd shoot you. "manage the rest by ourselves" = do their work for them.

I'd shoot you. "manage the rest by ourselves" = do their work for them.

Wrong. It means "thanks for the help, but we can take it from here."

It all depends on what methods the invaders use and the standards and ideology they stand for. If, say, Britain was calmly overtaken by the Canadians in a bloodless revolution I'd say "Good luck to them". If we were annexed by the Swiss, it'd be "Bon chance, mes amis". Australians simply taking the crown, "Righto, Mates!" On the other hand, I'd be picketing at the Russian embassy, plotting general strikes and similar peaceful unrest against the 'States, up in arms against any sort of theocratic institution and full-on terrorism against a Neo-Nazi overthrowal.

It all depends on what methods the invaders use and the standards and ideology they stand for. If, say, Britain was calmly overtaken by the Canadians in a bloodless revolution I'd say "Good luck to them". If we were annexed by the Swiss, it'd be "Bon chance, mes amis". Australians simply taking the crown, "Righto, Mates!" On the other hand, I'd be picketing at the Russian embassy, plotting general strikes and similar peaceful unrest against the 'States, up in arms against any sort of theocratic institution and full-on terrorism against a Neo-Nazi overthrowal.

Goodwin triumphs again. :rolleyes:

Goodwin triumphs again. :rolleyes:
It's Godwin. And when we talk about countries being invaded, we Britains will always mention the white supremecist fascists.

I just saw the movie Red Dawn...
I'm sorry.

Anyway, if at all possible, I’d collaborate with the invaders. I’d prefer to be on the winning side, maybe get some reward, like the property of those that resist.
Everyone else can take their principles and their patriotism and shove them up their asses.
If collaboration is impossible, Id flee the country.

Everyone who says 'fight' is batshit insane, a soldier, or massively overestimating their own courage and skill.

IM NOT crazy but i would strap explosives to my family and send them at the invaders kind of like those people in the middle east. Then i would charge them with a bomb straped to me and If they shot me I would explode killing them if not then i would bite off their juggler- A Juggler is a vein in a persons neck you bleed to death in a few mins with out it. and yes i said i would bite it off. IM NOT CRAZY.

I'm sorry.

Anyway, if at all possible, I’d collaborate with the invaders. I’d prefer to be on the winning side, maybe get some reward, like the property of those that resist.
Everyone else can take their principles and their patriotism and shove them up their asses.
If collaboration is impossible, Id flee the country.

Worked great for the Vichy France people. Hey, maybe you can carry a sign aound your neck that says 'WHORE' when your country is liberated! Sounds like great fun! :p

Worked great for the Vichy France people. Hey, maybe you can carry a sign aound your neck that says 'WHORE' when your country is liberated! Sounds like great fun! :p
That's where the relocation comes into play.

Am I still the only one to say "shoot collaborators?"

Am I still the only one to say "shoot collaborators?"
Probably not. You might be one of the few to say so openly, though. And, as I've said 'afore, whether or not you get support depends primarily on the actual invaders rather than on the principle of the thing.

Flee. It's the only thing to do. Once you're out of the country, it's far easier to organize a resistance when you're not under the boot of an occupying power.

Komyunizumu']Yeah, and we saw how well that worked out in Iraq.We also saw how it went in normandy.
Allies can also invade, and drive out the occupiers..

If they shot me I would explode killing them if not then i would bite off their juggler- A Juggler is a vein in a persons neck you bleed to death in a few mins with out it.No... a juggler is a person that juggles, so unless your country is invaded by an army of clowns, I don't think you'll be going for any juggler's jugular.

No... a juggler is a person that juggles, so unless your country is invaded by an army of clowns, I don't think you'll be going for any juggler's jugular.
*Barely resists urge to comment on armies of clowns*

*Barely resists urge to comment on armies of clowns*Oh, don't resist, give into the dark side..
Something along the lines of "Attack of the clowns"?

No... a juggler is a person that juggles, so unless your country is invaded by an army of clowns, I don't think you'll be going for any juggler's jugular.

A Juggler is a vein in a persons neck you bleed to death in a few mins with out it.



Shit, that's too damn funny.

I just saw the movie Red Dawn, where eight American high school kids launch a guerilla war against an occupying army (the occupiers are Russians and Cubans). So, I started wondering, if your country was invaded, and you found yourself behind enemy lines, what would you do?

Red Dawn is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Oh, and I am probably insane. That, and my moral code often says that killing is the right thing to do.

And how many people have you murdered before? Exactly.


I would get together with five or six of my friends, hide, steal guns and stuff, and declare independance from everyone. Come after us, we know all the woods for five miles like the back of our hands, and this is the kind of thing we've planned for our entire childhood. Didn't we all...

Red Dawn is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
I find it hilarious that 8 kids with no military training defeat elite Soviet soldiers... even better than the Ewoks.

Resist, of course!

Though i'd probably meet a quick, gruesome death, i wouldn't be able to live with myself seeing foreigners invading my beloved country o.o

I find it hilarious that 8 kids with no military training defeat elite Soviet soldiers... even better than the Ewoks.

I don't know; the Ewoks managed to smash in the sides of a multibillion credit AT-ST made out of an ultraadvanced durasteel alloy using only a pair of giant logs. Giant logs can barely break through stone walls, let alone a durasteel alloy.

I'd collaborate with the invaders. If I prove myself loyal, it'll pay off very well for me and that's all that matters. After all, any occupying force needs financial analysts to recoup their invasion costs, right? The Chinese will probably need a 21st century Domesday Book so I'm set when it comes to employment.

If they end up losing, I could either flee or convince my fellow citizens that I was forced to do so under threat of my family's death. People can fight for their country, freedom or whatever ideology they feel like all they want; just guarantee me a nice income, a comfortable house, plentiful luxuries and good infrastructure and I'll sell out my country even before the war is declared.

Greed is good...

If the my country was invaded, I'd pick up my Dragunov. I'd try to pick off enemy infantry and set up roadside bombs. Pretty much everything and more the insurgents in Iraq are doing to the US. I'm pretty good with home-made rockets. Put some gas in them and see what they'll do. If I can get some suppliers who won't sell me out, I can give them hell.

*Somewhere in invading country: "More rocket attacks by enemy resistance, resulting in the loss of three of our men, bringing the total death toll of the campaign to..."

I find it hilarious that 8 kids with no military training defeat elite Soviet soldiers... even better than the Ewoks.

'Cause no soldier in the world expects a kid that young to open fire. Unless they're evil.

I don't know; the Ewoks managed to smash in the sides of a multibillion credit AT-ST made out of an ultraadvanced durasteel alloy using only a pair of giant logs. Giant logs can barely break through stone walls, let alone a durasteel alloy.
...Maybe Endor wood is superdense...
And anyways, those AT-STs look cheap, and their armor looks paper-thin... I'm just sayin'.

If my country were invaded I'd start looking for a resistance unit or start an "Armed Resistance Movement". Gather weapons and ammunition and use them to get more, attack convoys using IED's, mortars and sniper fire. Contact a nation that has a similar ideology and beliefs and ask them for help in training, intelligence and supplying your forces.

You need an "All of the above except hide/surrender/flee" option.

These threads provide justification for my hobby....arr :p

Of course, I'm also going to be handing them all out in that event :( and arming the militia....

...Maybe Endor wood is superdense...
And anyways, those AT-STs look cheap, and their armor looks paper-thin... I'm just sayin'.

You'd think thin=high tech (you know, silksteel armor and all that from Alpha Centauri) but apparently the Empire with all its quintillions of credits to spend on arms appropriations decided to cut back...but then again, this is the military whose best Super Star Destroyer can be totally incapacitated by shattering the observation deck windows on the bridge.

Either that, or Marquand and Lucas just got lazy...

If the my country was invaded, I'd pick up my Dragunov. I'd try to pick off enemy infantry and set up roadside bombs. Pretty much everything and more the insurgents in Iraq are doing to the US. I'm pretty good with home-made rockets. Put some gas in them and see what they'll do. If I can get some suppliers who won't sell me out, I can give them hell.

*Somewhere in invading country: "More rocket attacks by enemy resistance, resulting in the loss of three of our men, bringing the total death toll of the campaign to..."

The drag isn't a real sniper quality weapon, it's more of a DMR rifle-designated marksman rifle.

I would lead a hostile takeover of Antartica.

Well all that training and ammo and weapons stored would finally come in handy.


BRING IT ON BABY...:p

I'd "flee" with some guys w/ammo, wait, build up my forces, then plan a counter-invasion.
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Invaded (us)-|----> Head Quarters
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Weak Spot |<------------
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:headbang: Weakness :mp5: us :gundge: them

:mp5: :gundge: :headbang: :gundge: :mp5:
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PLEASE hurry invade us now before I get too old to get my bag limit !


Dammit ! whats keeping you so long ?

ARA anybody?

I dont see anyone invading Norway in future, but I'd definately fight.

Still no comments on my plans to draft the Mythbusters into my partisan group?

For the record, I planned to travel down to San Francisco and bring the Mythbusters into my group of partisans. Just the ability to rig cars for remote control would give me a whole new range of abilities (they built a stone wall around the reeducation camp? Adam, I need another bomb truck!).
Oh, and I would SO adopt a nom de guerre.

Depends on who's invading me and why.

Good to know that the Internet 1st Division is out in force.

You'd think thin=high tech (you know, silksteel armor and all that from Alpha Centauri) but apparently the Empire with all its quintillions of credits to spend on arms appropriations decided to cut back...but then again, this is the military whose best Super Star Destroyer can be totally incapacitated by shattering the observation deck windows on the bridge.

Either that, or Marquand and Lucas just got lazy...
IN Green 1's defense (I'm such a nerd) the Executor was getting the hell beat out of it, and maybe the secondary bridge was destroyed. And an A-Wing exploding inside the bridge would pretty much wreck the whole thing. I think the helmsman's last move accidentally put it on a course to the DS2.
For the technology of the Imperial ground forces, I think they're like the Imperial Guard from 40k. Cheap, but plentiful.

i would use guerrila warfare to help the resistance movements but i wouldnt want to use guns against soldiers unless i was hidden a long distance away and had backup. i would use explosives and sabotage to try to eliminate military targets. maybe take out bridges to cut off certain areas

That movie is so unrealistic. It would be the other way around if it happened. I'd go guerilla unless I support the invaders.

Loot the local shopping precinct, of course!
That'll teach the bastards to accuse me of shoplifting. :p

That movie is so unrealistic. It would be the other way around if it happened. I'd go guerilla unless I support the invaders.

The invading forces would go guerilla on the high school students?

Who voted Get imprisoned/killed by the occupiers come on I dont see why thats even a option and I dont know why some one voted for it.

Hey look were being invaded.

village person 1I I am going to preform gurilla warfare.

village person 2 I am going to comply with the new goverment.

village person 3 I am going to leave the country

village idot I am going to try to get killed or captured by the army its going to be great. DUH

If I'm not dead from the nukes, then I would probably join some local resistance that's sure pop up somewhere. I wouldn't last very long, but I might as well go down fighting.

It's funny how there's not a lot of people going, "Accept the new overlords peacefully, surrender autonomy to them, adopt their instituted puppet government and politics, turn my back on my culture and jump for joy."

So it makes me wonder why anyone expects people in Iraq to do any different.

I'd shoot you. "manage the rest by ourselves" = do their work for them.

I wouldn't shoot you. I would deliver you to nasty CIA interrogators by pointing a finger at you. After all, a weird foreigner carrying a gun in our territory is clearly a mercenary or a spy and not protected by the international laws, like the Genova convention.

And I meant exactly what Cluitchstan said. "Thanks for the unasked and unwarranted help, but we can take it from here. give us our sovereignity back"

It's funny how there's not a lot of people going, "Accept the new overlords peacefully, surrender autonomy to them, adopt their instituted puppet government and politics, turn my back on my culture and jump for joy."

So it makes me wonder why anyone expects people in Iraq to do any different.

Because most of those who speak like that are "american" supremacists and imperialistic wackos?

They support the fact they can invade but not be invaded. We, the ones that actually understand why the people in Iraq behave that way, posted more moderate issues. I wouldn't accept an "overlord", but I wouldn't hide inside a trench with an outdated gun expecting to be killed by an aerial strike. I would try to build a non-puppet goverment as fast as possible, even if that means working alongside the invaders, trying to reach a diplomatic agreement with them. The turn back on my culture and jump for joy parts are entirely out of order, in any case.

It's funny how there's not a lot of people going, "Accept the new overlords peacefully, surrender autonomy to them, adopt their instituted puppet government and politics, turn my back on my culture and jump for joy."

So it makes me wonder why anyone expects people in Iraq to do any different.


It's all a matter of sufficient frightfulness combined with sufficient local control.

We may recall that the German occupations of Denmark, Belgium, France, Holland etc. were quite succesful, for the simple reason that flat urbanised countries can always be pacified by shooting a hundred random civilians whenever some occupier believes that some local gave him bad vibes.

When dealing with heavily forrested or marshy or hilly rural places, sufficient local control tends to be highly elusive. Yugoslavia and Russia come to mind...

Well...I would do something like this...Collaborate to a ridiculous extent, hoping that when the invaders set up a puppet government they will offer me a completely-meaningless-yet-senior-sounding-job-title position designed to make the citizens feel that one of THEM is still involved in running the country:D. My bad?:p

Well if the UK were invaded and they said to me:

''Citizen! We are imposing a Republic! The Queen shall merely be a figure head - and nothing else! A President and Prime Minister will now be voted in - along with a Parliament. Proportional Representation will be used! Oh, and there will be more local democracy and we'll have some more of those hydro-electricity farms and we'll place nuclear plants on some remote islands. Oh, now get out of my way - I'm going to unite Ireland!''

''Once you've done that...''

''We'll leave''

I'd pick up a weapon and join in. Oh wait. I'm describing what the UK could do with.