In celebration of the Red Dawn 2010 remake, I thought I would pose this question to the VGC international community. This post is mostly poised towards non-US citizens.

In the movie Red Dawn (if you haven't seen it, nor heard of the remake) another superpower country (USSR in the original, China in the remake) invades America, and uses brutal tactics to subjugate the population. The said invader then sets out to an extensive ground war on US soil while the rest of the world.

So here is the question:

In a hypothetical scenario to where the United States was invaded, would you want your country comitting forces to help defend America?

No country since the revolutionary war has comitted troops to the United States of America, while we have comitted troops to many wars since then - how would you feel if the inverse was true? Satisfaction with the United States may not be at an all time low since Obama came into office, but how would you feel about your nation defending America?

Just a curious scenario. Only two decades ago, it would have been a no-brainer question to ask if Americans would dedicate troops to Europe in the case of a Soviet-European war. I am just wondering about attitudes 20 years later.

Really looking forward to a lively, hypothetical discussion.

If your interested in the original Red Dawn:

I'd probably sign up to fight if our own troops weren't capable/numerous enough. We have a pretty large debt to America when it comes to invasion and war.

Yes, I think protecting a nation from invasion and occupation is a worthy cause. (which is slightly ironic really =P)

We would probably only send the SAS though - but that's alright because they're pretty much the best troops in the world.

Well in case of Poland i reckon if Russia would go against US (and while doing it against NATO) we would probably get invaded at this same time (well us and Russia have a lot of history toghether , plus we are neighbours) so yeah we probably would be fighting the sam war.

In case of Chinese Conflict i see as getting ivolved on US side as well (obviously to the extent that such country as Poland can) and i would probably support that Effort since at the end of the day America does stand for values that i think need to be defended.

In a heartbeat. If an opposing force invaded USA soil I'm sure the UK army would be at the front line protecting your country. And I would support the UK army in protecting the USA.

However, I don't see any country being stupid enough to invade the USA

SAS FTW

Sure, but only if you weren't the aggressor :P.  but if our troops are out fighting, then I'm sure Germany would invade Belgium again. Or the French or Austrians or the Spanish or the Dutch. It's a thing they do.

I'm talking the NZ SAS - although the UK SAS is also pretty awesome. Specialise in different areas though.

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You had me fooled for a second, Rath.

I thought you were referring to UK SAS, then saw that your from NZ.