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Originally Posted by diremage
We do have some data from the recent Occupy movement to extrapolate from regarding police brutality towards peaceful protesters on the US domestic front. I don't think predicting an American Tiananmen Square incident is unreasonable.
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Police are a joke. I teach the kids SWAT tactics so they know what not to do when engaged in urban warfare.
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Originally Posted by Lord Ben
I'm assuming a more "ethnic cleansing" (though political not racial) type situation where violence is against the people rather than the government they voted in. The type where a neighbor sets my house on fire, etc rather than attacking government facilities and holding terrain. My experience is limited to various articles and speculative fiction.
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This is, by and large, what the tail end of the Iraqi insurgency was about.
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Originally Posted by Atlictoatl
What if the revolutionary forces aren't liberals, but Tea Party-ish?
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This is not an entirely unreasonable assumption, though leftists aren't out of the question. There are some elements on the extreme right who are advocating rebellion, moreso than the collectivist left.
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Originally Posted by Atlictoatl
Snipers or handfuls of lone gunmen, I can see. If your squad turned into a street with twenty armed American citizens, though, some of whom took a pot shot at you when they saw you, would you (meaning the guys you know, not necessarily Solaris) really fire RPGs and concentrated firearms into their mass over falling back and holding a tactical position?
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Let me put it this way: We are frequently admonished to not make the news. That day, we would make the news and it would make Kent State look like a hippie love-fest. When they initiate hostilities, we
have to prosecute lest they think they can get away with it. That's part of the war of the mind, instilling that dread fear of the uniformed forces in the irregular's mind.
It wouldn't involve RPGs, though. For one, they're big, bulky, and only really good against armored vehicles. For another, the rules of war include proportional response - we don't use the AT-4 when the M4 will do.