[Draven]

The problems with the military Vs its own people is this...

1) They are killing people like them...
Its harder to dehumanize an enemy who is like you. Racism is common in the military; its used to dehumanize the people the soldiers are sent to fight. Also cultural debasement another method of dehumanization can not be used to make the rebels seem less human.

2) They may even face friends & family...
Also most soldiers are from small town America, so the idea of fighting their friends and their family might cause soldiers on both sides to fail in doing their duty.

Now I don't care one way or the other. My plan is to escape, evade and watch the world destory itself, slowly or quickly either way. The fact that guerrilla units have been successful in Asia, South America and during the Cold War when they where proactive in their fighting is a seroius consideration. Of course so is the resources which the government would need to deal with its enemies with and without its boarders.

Lets face it the transition to marshall law would cause many enemy states to attack our overseas assets and possibly launch an offensive against. Plus all that technology has limitations, night vision goggles for example can be fooled with glitter and have a limited line of sight and low depth perception. Thermal Vision is limited by weather conditions and can be stopped with heavy snow fall. Also all those spy satalites have to have a location to find you and can't track multiple locations from a single satalite. Technology is used to scare us into submission but if it were so easy why haven't they found Benladen yet?