If an enemy army was threatening our country(U.S.), and we had to fight on our own soil, name one obstacle?

Question

"would never happen" is not an answer

the keyword is "had"

Answer 1

Biggest obstacle to our being sucessful if that would occur, would be

Troops are scattered across the globe on missions that have nothing to do with our freedom or security
AND
All the money to wage war with has been spent in IRAQ

Answer 2

Well, the first obstacle would be trying to enter our waters undetected and avoid getting sunk by our submarines. The second obstacle would be trying to enter our airspace without getting blown out of the sky by our f-18s, which just happen to be the best in the world. But the third and hardest obstacle would be taking over the average American patriot who would rather die than see his country taken over by the enemy.

Answer 3

The biggest obstacle is we would be fighting at home. Which means our citizens are in the fields of fire, we could not use bombing or artillery to defend the country without killing our people.

I do not think having millions of personally owned weapons in the USA is a bad thing.

Answer 4

Someone a few days ago asked a similar question so here is my answer to that question but tailored to this one.

To attack the USA a nation would need to form an alliance with a group of nations to complete this task. In my opinion I would have say at least 5-10 nations would have to ally to do this. No single nation could accomplish this by themselves, its just to big a task.

But lets just say a single nation decided hey lets try and invade the good ole USA. The USA has many advantages that would greatly help in a war: Besides have one of the most armed civil populations here are the tactical advantages:

1) We have 2 massive bodies of water between us and any major attacker. If a country tried to attack by coming thru the Bearing Strait into Alaska they would get delayed coming thru it and Canada. That part of North America is massive and with the mountains not very negotiable.

2) The USA is about 3,000 miles wide at it widest point east to west and about 1700 miles wide north to south. You would have to attack from at least two if not 3 sides, otherwise the attacker would do damage, but would easily be defeated when the military from the other coast mobilized and started moving in to reinforce the units already in battle.

3) The USA is one of the few nations in the world to have every terrian type contained within its borders. This causes a nightmare when fighting cause of terrian advantages. If you attack the west coast first you then have to cross the Sierra, Coastal, and Rocky mountain ranges to name a few. After that you have the great plains which a 1000 mile area with no cover. Then you have more mountains on the east coast. Throw in there forests, deserts, the different climates of the USA and you got a mess on your hands. I mean come on US citizens hate going from Florida to NY in the winter, think about another nation.

4) The USA is one of the few nations that have an interstate system that links every major city. The highway system in this nation was designed with an invasion in mind hence its name, the Esinhower Interstate System. We could transport troops from one side of the nation to the other within 3 days.

5) Also take into consideration that the USA is part of NATO. While this treaty was created to prevent a Soviet invasion during the cold war I think many of the nations would come to our aid in a situation where we were attacked unprovokedly.

Now that we have our advantages lets just say a nation is dumb enough to try and I am going to use China as a nation causes in my opinion they are the only nation that could give the USA a run for their money in a convential war. They first would have to get there troops here. Either by boat or troop drops.

Of course they would have to make it past our naval outposts in the Pacific and our 6 carrier battle groups in the Pacific fleet. Of course at this time I am sure we would also bring some of our Atlantic Fleets over to the Pacific. Oh of course
don't forgot about all the attack subs that we would line up to sink any troop transports coming by water.

Now once they were able to invade the west coast they would have to take the major cities like LA, SF, SD, Seattle, and Portland. At the same time they were invaded other troops would have to be deployed to the mountain passes to prevent our troops from the East coast to come over and help. All of this would have to happen so fast so that the troops invading on the west coast could move farther inland to take over more territory and allow more troops to land. Of course at this time our NATO allies would start to land there troops on our east coast to back us up.

Answer 5

mobility.

we have perhaps the most mobile population in history.

we could move literally millions of people to or away from a given location on a moments notice.

i could fill sand bags in new york city one day and then go to norfolk virginia the next day and do the same - and bring four people with me if need be.

no other nation has as much of the population that can do the same as america.

Answer 6

The Grand Canyon

Answer 7

Who has the obstacle, us or the enemy. If its us then the way our country is nowadays we would probably loose because most Americans are wimps.

Answer 8

the ACLU would be the biggest obstacle alongside all of the other liberals. We arent allowed to fight wars! They would sue for hurting another persons feelings or something.

Answer 9

it relatively is their physique of suggestions they politicize something they might to lead them to seem good like some undesirable apples who abused infantrymen now they make it appear as if our protection rigidity is the undesirable guy or perhaps use that against the president, like he instructed them to do it or something. They placed their politics over the coolest of their u . s ., and consequently it would be risky to make your suggestions up on one as a results of fact the subsequent president of the USA. this is incredible how little human beings comprehend roughly Iraq yet they are so ineffective set against it, a number of those solutions are frightening to be certain such ingorance some subject count, yet yet beleive it so strongly. it relatively is frightening the liberal lack of expertise. If somebody thinks this conflict is approximately oil or funds they are particularly ignorant. no one needs to be certain them harm the prisoners, this is not what we are saying, yet liberals get mad while they placed underclothes over there head (which i'm no longer saying is nice) yet particular are not getting that mad while they chop off our infantrymen heads, and then they ask your self why human beings question who's component they are on and question their patriotism.

Answer 10

Just like in any thearte....the rockies would need to be crossed. The mississippi would need to be crossed. The deserts of the southwest would prove difficult for enemy. Any place where they can be slowed down or bottleled up is an advantage to the defender.