Slightly edited version of the original that has been circulating for years. Good points in it. There are additional aspects to it that the author misses that also supports the idea that the US can't fight and win a civil war: - who pays for damage inflicted on US cities by US troops - not insurance, that's for sure - so the economic impact would be catastrophic. The riots went into the billions and they were contained to a very limited number of communities; - the US military supply chain is, in a word, fucked. It barely works now, when the country is functioning; - as soon as the US starts fighting, it has to pull home foreign military assets, so the world starts to burn, too... etc. etc. As soon as a civil war turns hot, US world hegemony ends. The board gets reset and the game starts again. Look to the end of the British empire... or even Rome as a better example.