We will outsmart them.
We shall lure them into combat where we can openly bombard them with warheads nucrear and chemical.
We will hide the woman and children so as to preserve life here.
We will fight with all our might.
and of coarse i will be leading the charge in sparten armour
Re: asymmetric warfare(surviving an alien invasion)
#22300, except this time Human style: "THIS. IS. EARTH!!!!"
Black_as_Night- of course, as we know the geography definitely more than they do (usually).
The bombardment from above with nuclear weapons capability would definitely warrant heavy research in radiation-resistant (or completely -proof) suits, preferably without using electricity in the suits. Why? Because the nukes would cause a global EMP discharge, which could help if the aliens used electricity, which they probably would because it's the easiest force of nature to tamper with for any growing civilization.
But we should really (this is somewhat for laughs) heavily fund manned moon missions and use that to build the moon into a gigantic weapon. And then we use it to destroy (at least the surface) of the Earth, or just all the alien ships in sight. Of course, screwing over our planet = screwing over ourselves, so really, just make a Destroyer out of that thing, with weapons enough to defend a galaxy from a full-on invasion (exaggeration, but hey, dream large).
Black_as_Night- of course, as we know the geography definitely more than they do (usually).
The bombardment from above with nuclear weapons capability would definitely warrant heavy research in radiation-resistant (or completely -proof) suits, preferably without using electricity in the suits. Why? Because the nukes would cause a global EMP discharge, which could help if the aliens used electricity, which they probably would because it's the easiest force of nature to tamper with for any growing civilization.
But we should really (this is somewhat for laughs) heavily fund manned moon missions and use that to build the moon into a gigantic weapon. And then we use it to destroy (at least the surface) of the Earth, or just all the alien ships in sight. Of course, screwing over our planet = screwing over ourselves, so really, just make a Destroyer out of that thing, with weapons enough to defend a galaxy from a full-on invasion (exaggeration, but hey, dream large).
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Re: asymmetric warfare(surviving an alien invasion)
#23too simple, and doesn't account for immunity to nukes or chemical bombsBlack_as_Night wrote:We will outsmart them.
We shall lure them into combat where we can openly bombard them with warheads nucrear and chemical.
We will hide the woman and children so as to preserve life here.
We will fight with all our might.
and of coarse i will be leading the charge in sparten armour
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Re: asymmetric warfare(surviving an alien invasion)
#24Simple plans have an advantage: No one gets confused.
Immunity to all our weapons? Then I'm guessing we're going to have to steal their weapons as there is a large chance that they have had factional wars in the past (like us humans), which probably means that their weapons can hurt them. (Of course, they may be specialized weapons for taking out humans only, but really, I don't see how any advisor can get that through to the commander with the heavy cost of making all those specialized weapons weighing on the solutions).
Immunity to all our weapons? Then I'm guessing we're going to have to steal their weapons as there is a large chance that they have had factional wars in the past (like us humans), which probably means that their weapons can hurt them. (Of course, they may be specialized weapons for taking out humans only, but really, I don't see how any advisor can get that through to the commander with the heavy cost of making all those specialized weapons weighing on the solutions).
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Re: asymmetric warfare(surviving an alien invasion)
#25The result of war always depends on the objectives - how victory is defined. But if humanity were faced with an alien species whose sole goal was our extermination, we would have little chance. A disease or climatological nudge would render the entire planet inhospitable for human life without our ability to resist.schnitter wrote: how would we fair? knowing we couldn't fight head on with an alien race much more superior. Leave a reply with one of your ideas of how we could fight.
If the aliens instead wanted us for experimental purposes, they could simply appear, take those individuals they desired, and leave.
Only if the aliens somehow needed our world undamaged, and lacked the ability to engineer some virus deadly to us, would anything approximating warfare arise. Even then, we would first have to detect them; a sensible strategy would be for the aliens to work behind large nations, stirring up war between different world powers, offering advice and technological support to certain commanders, and probably playing multiple sides against one another, grinding the Earth's militaries into exhaustion or else subjugating the planet through one country and then tightening its control in this way.
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