Everything or nation can expand or become powerful with favourable conditions.

The back-bone of US power is it's powerful economy!

Lets take a look at conditions that can limit power:

- Growing Pressure from Competition: China is a big challenge to US in export industry and at the same time a very important investment region for US. Now that country is rapidly advancing and increasing its share in exports market, which means more buyers for its products which means more money and revenues.

- Growing Threats to Strategic Influence: Some nations are on verge of becoming Nuclear powers and that include IRAN and North Korea. US strategic influence will be effected by this.

- Potential Future Threat: Formation of EU State or United ME State!

- Military Conflicts (Burden on Economy): The more conflicts that US indulges in, the more will be strain on its economy which will badly effect economy growth scenario. And a long and expensive war could be worse.

- Other matters that drain economy: OIL is one limiting factor here and is plagued with conflicts.

The point is that if conditions become un-favourable for growth and more and more challenges pour in that effect economy then things can get out of hand and limit power.

Thus, US is also no exception here!

Originally Posted by zander_0633

What if those foreigners that have gained entry or have became US citizens are all soldiers in disguise, then one fine day, The take up weapons and start to attack the America from within!

You lose sight of one glaring fact - many of us ex-military types own weapons and would take up arms in a heartbeat if a force was daring enough to do as you suggested. The number of hidden soldiery required to have a chance, would have to number into the hundreds and hundreds of thousands.
TAIN'T NEVER GONNA HAPPEN.

Originally Posted by Chief Bones

You lose sight of one glaring fact - many of us ex-military types own weapons and would take up arms in a heartbeat if a force was daring enough to do as you suggested. The number of hidden soldiery required to have a chance, would have to number into the hundreds and hundreds of thousands.
TAIN'T NEVER GONNA HAPPEN.

Let me add something to Chief Bones's post. We have oil, all we could ever use in ten lifetimes. Middle East oil is just cheap and easy to get.

Any given Sunday... if you pile enough conditionals together it is possible the US could be defeated but not probable in the current conditions of the real world. Rather than the economy or external threats I would say the greatest strength in the defense of the US is the military's core of professional NCO's.

An interesting idea bulldogg but I don't think that is a weak-link in America's armor. As invaluable as our professional NCO's are, they are created that way through the phenomenal army training and American can do spirit. I believe that as long as the millitary understands the valuability of NCOs and Americans are Americans, it is impossible to whipe them out.

Read it again... I said they were the greatest STRENGTH, nothing about a weak link... you college kids, buy em books send em to school and all they wanna do is...

Well this thread is about how America can be defeated!

You old farts. You see 3 or 4 decades go by and all you wanna do is...

It doesn't excuse your poor reading comprehension, pardon me for being a voice of positive thinking. In fact this isn't about HOW it can be defeated, it is a question of "Is it possible..."

I'll leave y'all to your conditional mental mind games.

Well then I submit to you as a teacher to speak more clearly. You begin your post by discussing weakness in a thread about possible vulnerabilities then make a quick about face mid-sentence into an inversion. Don't blame my proclivities towards extra-curricular activities!

haha! So far only through Ecomonical defeat can the US be defeated!