Nightcrawler
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The logistics of an invasion of the United States are incredibly tough. But in the opening, the film did explain some of it.
-Mexico is plunged into revolution. Nothing but chaos down there, and Communist insurgents
-Cuba and Nicaragua reach troop strengths of 50,000
-NATO dissolves as Greens Party takes over in West Germany
-Europe (except for Britain) sits the war out
-Soviet nuclear missiles are more accurate than we had thought; a well-timed sneak attack destroys most of our silos and apparently prevents a full retaliation. Even if we did hit a few Russian cities or military bases, it wouldn't stop their war machine
-The Soviets used a lot of their nukes on China.
-Infiltrators came up from the southern border and wreaked havoc at SAC bases in the Southwestern US, further impairing our ability to counterattack
-The US and the UK then face, by themselves, the combined forces of the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua, and all of the Soviet Satellite states. We've been caught off guard, nuked, repeatedly, and the Soviets have only suffered a minor nuclear retaliation in response.
Still impossible to mout a successful invasion, I think. Lincoln once said that all of the armies of Europe and Asia combined couldn't by force take a drink from the Missouri River (or something to that effect), and he was probably right. The sheer size and population of the United States would make a sustained occupation impossible, but that wasn't necessarily the Soviets' Goal. Easier would be to invade, knock us out as a world power, and have a few occupational forces in a few places to make sure we don't reorganize and start building a military that can threaten the USSR. Then, the suriving Americans could probably just starve and fight amongst themselves, for all the Soviets cared. (If they were really smart, they'd fund agitator groups to keep the Americans fighting amongst themselves and from uniting to rebuild.)
Still, made for an interesting movie.
-Mexico is plunged into revolution. Nothing but chaos down there, and Communist insurgents
-Cuba and Nicaragua reach troop strengths of 50,000
-NATO dissolves as Greens Party takes over in West Germany
-Europe (except for Britain) sits the war out
-Soviet nuclear missiles are more accurate than we had thought; a well-timed sneak attack destroys most of our silos and apparently prevents a full retaliation. Even if we did hit a few Russian cities or military bases, it wouldn't stop their war machine
-The Soviets used a lot of their nukes on China.
-Infiltrators came up from the southern border and wreaked havoc at SAC bases in the Southwestern US, further impairing our ability to counterattack
-The US and the UK then face, by themselves, the combined forces of the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua, and all of the Soviet Satellite states. We've been caught off guard, nuked, repeatedly, and the Soviets have only suffered a minor nuclear retaliation in response.
Still impossible to mout a successful invasion, I think. Lincoln once said that all of the armies of Europe and Asia combined couldn't by force take a drink from the Missouri River (or something to that effect), and he was probably right. The sheer size and population of the United States would make a sustained occupation impossible, but that wasn't necessarily the Soviets' Goal. Easier would be to invade, knock us out as a world power, and have a few occupational forces in a few places to make sure we don't reorganize and start building a military that can threaten the USSR. Then, the suriving Americans could probably just starve and fight amongst themselves, for all the Soviets cared. (If they were really smart, they'd fund agitator groups to keep the Americans fighting amongst themselves and from uniting to rebuild.)
Still, made for an interesting movie.
). But Red Dawn comes in a close third. 
