>>3456272
"Potentially fracturing" is an understatement. The real strength of the U.S. military (Projection of force) is essentially meaningless. Speaking of the capabilities of the U.S. military, their fancy toys are essentially meaningless. Bombs, missiles etc. would only fuel anti-government sentiment among the U.S. population, and that's ignoring the plethora of other reasons why those cannot come into play.
Beyond that, these situations always seem to be thought of as happening in vacuums, which simply isn't the case. It's funny to think of Johnny Rebel and Timmy Teabagger against the U.S. Military (Aircraft Carriers and all), but it's not very realistic. Putin has already indicated that he would support a potential Texan secession movement (for example). What would our largest geopolitical rival do, were we to fall into any sort of civil war scenario? It would be Timmy Teabagger, Johnny Reb, their buddy Ivan, a section of the U.S. military against a crippled and bound U.S. Military.
I mean, we could go into things like power grids, likely locations of each "group" and the strategic implications, so on and so forth; however, I really don't feel that's necessary.
