Homefront Review - 9/10 in OPM

[Hephaestos]

AussieGecko said:

Hephaestos said:

Thing is there is no realistic scenario where the US would be invaded by anything....

The US military is currently a good 10 years ahead of any other military in tech, with the closest being russia and France. All other countries in the world rely on outside arms purchase and are de facto dependent on the furnishing country for their wearponry. Even China is lagging way behind, didn't they just test their FIRST stealth plane a few months ago?

The other true factor besides tech is the quantity of gear (tanks/planes/boats.... even if lower tech) and in this aspect too, the US have a big step forward any country (well maybe not russia there, dunno). I mean even if you have 1000 chinese littleman with rifles... they ain't gonna do much against a bomber out of bullet reach...

Lastly, experience... well the US is in every fight...

On the numbers though, if you recall japan, they were many many less than the chinese pre WWII, yet they did manage to cover most of asia... granted, japan is larger than north corea, but  the only factor that enabled them to do this was still the military tech that was way ahead than any other countries arround them.

You cant be serious... 

If anything these latest wars shows US is a susceptible as anyone. If a probably organised military attacked america they have every chance of winning. If China attacks via south america for example the US wouldnt have a chance as they would then be fighting a land war.

And that is only the start, if the "axis of evil" declared war on America it wouldnt be as one sided as you hope imo

i'll just say this.

You're mistaking waging a foreign guerilla war and a homeland war. If anything recent wars have shown that the home contry will never lay down arms and even if it's just a portion of the population they can disturb the peace (I believe that is the premise of the game no? you fight on a dominating ennemy, much like the view rebel afgans or irakis have of the US I would guess).

Now your example of china is false as china only has more men, they do not have more vehicules, planes or copters.... and they'd have a heck of a supply line problem from the sea... (not counting the local resistance from the south americans they'd go through ^^)

The "axis of evil" doesn't have sufficient missile tech to even deliver nukes...they are a threat because their nuke tech is likely to be sold to terrorists (or sponsored to) and be derived to dirty bombs and because of the damage they can do to neighboring countries. there's only 3 contries with capacity to hit the US with nukes (besides alaska) and that's Russia, China (they have space capacity... not sure about intercontinental missiles though) and France. Other countries would need to have either long range missile capacity (they don't), or sub capacity (NK has, but low range missiles) or stealth bombers (they don't).

one nice chart that might put things in perspective for you... military budget...

http://www.globalfirepower.com/defense-spending-budget.asp

digg on similar sites you'll see lots of info (based on available sources as CIA and library of congress), but that graph is particularly telling because 50 paper planes cost much less than 1 real fighter jet..... and if you think that's a joke.... Saddam Hussein had inflatable tanks to bolster his stats ^^ (sold by an italian company...)