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[–] whitedogofpyr 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You have to consider that a large portion of the feds would side with the rebels, so there'd be nowhere to retreat to. The elites would go to some new zealand bunker, but the civil war wouldn't last very long. It really depends on who's fighting whom. Red vs. Blue wouldn't last long because Red has guns, food, and supply lines. Blue has cities full of hungry people. People vs. Gov wouldn't last long either because of traitors on the gov side. The Gov could order nuke strikes against the people, but that would be really hard to pull off and they'd lose anyway.

I agree with your IED, guerilla war idea, but I can't see a scenario where the exhaustion wouldn't happen quickly. Cut off any major city for 3 days and that city would barely still exist.

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[–] Broc_Lia ago 

That scenario still seems to be envisioning conventional warfare with well defined fronts and area denial. The farmers wouldn't stop shipping food into the cities, not most of them anyhow. And if they tried the feds would have the clout to institute emergency measures and seize whatever grain silos they needed to. Some of the soldiers might feel bad about it, but most of them would very quickly turn us vs. them when they started getting shot at.

I'd see things as being more like a scenario where there's areas of the country where the feds can no longer travel or live with impunity. They can patrol in force and take minimum casualties, they can set up heavily armed FOBs, but they can never think of doing something like sending the FBI to arrest someone, or sending out FDA inspectors to farms.

The exhaustion wouldn't come from starvation, more from demoralisation and people stopping signing up for a war with no victories. Also, americans would be pretty poor by that point because of all the economic inefficiencies created by the conflict.

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[–] whitedogofpyr ago 

The IEDs would be the main issue. Can't transport the food if the roads keep exploding. No food = city riots. City riots = cops flee to their homes. Cops flee to their homes = no law and order. No law and order = no government. No government = libertarian paradise... for a time. That's the basic idea anyway.