Welcome to the How to Invade a Country Tutorial! Do you have aspirations of imperialistic conquest? Are you heartless dictator? Or simply an egocentric corrupt leader desiring more power? Have you beenholding a grudge from past conflicts (some unfinished business)? If you've answered yes to any of the previous questions you've come to the right place! Now, lets get started.
1:What do you have at your disposal?
The first thing you need to consider in invading a foreign country is what do you have at your disposal? Do you have technologically superior battle tanks and air support? Do you have a vast ground force you can quickly deploy? Do you have sufficient finances and natural resources? Do you have a nuclear bomb? These are all important questions you need to consider if you want your offensive to be successful and not be a comple bomb (No pun intended). haha Of course, you dont need to have everything but everything you can bring to the battlefield to utterly overwhelm your enemy is important to mobilize. The last thing you want is an extended conflict.
If you do lack a few neccessary war materiale, always remember that you can acquire weapons from the Russians. They'll sell you anything for the right price!
2:Winning the Public
Another matter you need to consider is the public. Of course, if you are a successful repressive dictator you dont need to worry what the public thinks, just keep playing those propaganda tracks rolling. However, if you live in a democratic system this may be more difficult, which is why we always suggest that as a member of the Executive branch of Democratic nation you always take as much power as you possibly can and use it to forward your own personal agenda. After a while, of successful scare tactics and elimination fo political enemies the public will evenutally fall in line with your agenda.
3:Know Your Enemy
Now lets talk about the country you're invading. Its important to remember to keep your invasion as surreptitious as possible. You want your enemy to be completely dumb founded by your attack, so speed is the key to having any type of success in conquering your enemy. The faster you attack, the less prepared they will be, the more successful the invasion. Aside from that what does your enemy have? A strong Air Force? A strong Navy?Ground forces? Radar installments and anti-aircraft? Any sort of ICBM to retaliate? If so you must first elliminate their strong points or prevent them from using them. Remember speed is key.
In addition, you must remember the geography of the country. Is it surrounded by mountains? Is the country a vast desert? Or a lush rainforest offering plenty of places to hide and ambush? Or many urban centers? All of these factors of geography are vitally important.
4:Give 'Em Hell!
Now that your carefully planned campaign is started remember to follow your plan and have no mercy! Speed is the key! Elliminate the established government quickly and move on. The worst thing you could do is poorly assess your enemy and the amount of money and troops you need to successfully capture your invaded country. If that happens add more troops or (assuming the cost is too high) get the hell out!
5:Victory!
Congratulations! Now that you've successfully annhilated your enemy its time to divy up the spoils of battle and reap the benefits of all your careful planning. Hopefully, you now have sufficiently increased your natural resources have sufficiently increased your economy, if not better luck next time; you should be more responsible about who you attack and more realistic about the threat your enemies pose and consequences of such an invasion.
Better luck next time!
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No offense. You sound like a computer nerd gone mad. One too many hours playing Rise of Nations perhaps? I thought it was humerous though.
Silent enim leges inter arma
No, I was basically making fun of how nations must act when they make stupid decisions to invade countries. How the must go over every aspect and still end up screwing themselves. A lot of it was commenting on the US in Iraq in a somewhat subtle fashion. If you read it again, you can tell which lines are directed at the president or referring to the blunder of invading Iraq.
I dont play video games, I think they are a waste of time.
"Its all very well in practice but it will never work in theory."
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/daimler
It's a satire, yes? And I enjoy your #3, but another thing is, wait a minute, does your enemy have a cohesive fighting unit? Or do they jump out at you unexpectedly at any hour of the day, try to kill you, and run away before you can truly act? the president didn't seem to realize that the insurgent's tactics would put a severe strain on our military because we're not fighting them on their terms.
I watched something about before the Invasion of Iraq began and basically it was Cheney and Rumsfeld who were really pushing for war. Both also ignored the warning of Colin Powell who had actually been the 10 years earlier, who said that they would need hundreds of thousands to take Baghdad and maintain order. Its one of those situations where groupthink and over aggression won out over the rationality and experience of Colin Powell. Its really sad, when the primal chest beating of leaders is what wins out and leads to unneccessary war and invasion.
"Its all very well in practice but it will never work in theory."
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/daimler
I think the chest-beating of the irrational, over agressive politicians you speak of derrives from their masculine foundation which feeds their need for such actions... rationality is feminine, and therefore, primitive. But let's think... what would the world be like if run by women?
Blair-O
I believe you're wrong. Just because a person is a male doesnt mean they are more inclined to go to war. I am not that much of a realist to think that we will always be going to war because we have a bunch of dudes as the Commander in Chief. We are capable of enlightened self-interest and making rational decisions. We arent ruled by our hormones to that degree all the time.
"Its all very well in practice but it will never work in theory."
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/daimler
I didn't mean that ALL males are more inclined to go to war. I merely think that the people who you refer to as "chest-beating" were probably raised to believe that fighting and aggression is a 'masculine' ideal, so war may seem ideal to them. Sorry, I wasn't aiming to insult all men, I just think that some are raised with a skewed view of masculinity.
Blair-O
Sometimes we as a scoiety do put too much of a skewed view of masculinity as well as femininity. It does make sense why we have the views we do. Think of the basic difference in the toys most kids played with. The boys played with GI Joes and girls played with Barbies and dolls. It is understandable why we have these inclinations. I think their is probably a biological aspect, but there must be some reasoned sensible way to approach problems or perceived problems other than shock and awe bombing tactics. We should remember to "walk softly with [our] big stick" of US military supremacy and use it sparingly.
"Its all very well in practice but it will never work in theory."
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/daimler
Agreed.
Blair-O
is the only guy i will ever forgive for being part of the whole Iraq ordeal and believe me people i had my doubts on whether he should forever have this stain on his name or i should forgive him, not that my opinion matters.
in any case, he has told the world that he feels that going into Iraq was the biggest mistake and blunder of his life. so yeah, Colin, I hear you but I wish he had the guts and balls to stand up for what he beleived in, SOONER, and we wouldn't have had the 100 thousand plus lives lost and all the hate and anger in the world today
"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right."