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I think a recent example illustrates the answer to what it is like to battle the U.S Military. In February 2018, 40 American soldiers were attacked by 500+ Syrian pro-government troops and as many as 200 Russian mercenaries in the Wagner brigade. The attackers were supported by 27 first-rank tanks and artillery pieces. The American response was a furious four-hour artillery barrage, air strikes, precision munitions, and gunship strafing runs. The result, depending on which report you believe, was 100+ casualties in the Syrian forces (some reports say the entire pro-government Syrian force was destroyed) and between 68 and 200 casualties in the Russian mercenary force. American casualties were zero. All of the Syrian armored vehicles were destroyed and none of the Syrian operational objectives were achieved.So that is what it is like to battle the U.S. Military. Infantry fixes your position and then artillery and air power descend with the fury of hell obliterating the very earth of your position and killing every living thing in and around your position.

Utter nonsense. Putting aside politics, it's easy to refute this notion. It is estimated by Gallup that 23–29% of the population own guns. Using this percentage and assuming that it's accurate, we can deduce that 80.5 million people own guns in the US. If 1% of the gun owners in the US opted to “throw off the yoke of tyranny,” we would have a motivated rebel group of 805,000 people. That's a substantial number to get us started. Assuming another 1% might actively support the cause, and you have a combined combat and logistical force that is comparable in size to the entire active military. Keep in mind that the active military includes a large swath of the Navy and a number of odd formations that would be irrelevant in this scenario.It's very likely that many of the gun owners in question are also veterans… many with combat experience from our recent wars. These veterans are likely very aware that going toe to toe in a battle with the US military is a quick way to lose. I would expect to see a very large, well organized insurgency in this instance.Going a step further, any member of the US military who deployed to GWOT and patrolled often can tell you about encountering IEDs, car bombs, and house born IEDs (HBIEDs) that were made with homemade explosives. I would expect to see the same here. I would expect to see bombs big enough to defeat armor and tactics to deal with dismounts drawn from our recent military experiences.It's also worth pointing out that insurgency has bogged the US military down in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. We have historical precedent that demonstrates insurgency as an effective way to combat the US military. The culture of the US military is such that any real experience in dealing with insurgency is leaving the ranks… and much of it is potentially on the other side in this scenario.Finally, the relative ease of access to reserve equipment and facilities in communities across the country provide hundreds of soft, yet symbolic targets that don't require a lot of risk to exploit. Soft targets could include the homes of individual Soldiers.I could go on, but to sum up, it's easy to imagine a scenario where the US military would struggle against an armed US population that is somehow motivated to engage with it… and that's exactly how things should be.

The United Earth Starfleet is considered a civilian organization by UE, and civilians don't use military ranks or uniforms, right?Wrong.Those may look like US Navy personnel to the untrained eye. They aren't. They're with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a civilian agency.It's actually pretty common for civilian government personnel to use military-style rank systems, or even carry an actual ceremonial military rank the way State Department officials do. For one thing, in theory it forces opposing armies to treat them as prisoners of war instead of civilian prisoners should they be captured.There's other reasons, too.This isn't a soldier, either. This is Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison.But wait, you say, he has four general's stars! Yeah, as it turns out, police departments of the United States started to take on their modern forms after the American Civil War. A lot of soldiers coming home decided to become police officers as civilians. And in reorganizing the department into a form they thought would work better, they went with what they knew.The Federation Starfleet is a bit different. James T. Kirk openly refers to himself as a soldier on multiple occasions. Jean-Luc Picard says “I prefer to think of myself as an explorer.”The Federation Starfleet took on the military mission of the MACOs, as well as absorbing the Vulcan Defense Forces, the Andorian Imperial Guard, the Tellarite Space Command, et cetera. It very much is a military organization, it's just that in peacetime it prioritizes non-military missions.