I purely am talking in terms of geography (mountainous vs flat etc), infrastructure, and culture (culture, as in like hillbillies with guns, or gangs everywhere)

Also purely talking continental.

Edit: boots on the ground warfare, lets just assume a strong foreign power like Russia or China


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  4. Jackson Hole, WY

    One of the few cities surrounded by huge mountains that has access to MASSIVE financial resources. Local multi-millionaires are pissed off that the billionaires are pricing them out of living there… It’s like a city of potential Bond Villains.

  5. St Louis.

    I mean, you have to go through a lot of others.

    It’s just a few hundred miles between mountain ranges and nestled in the Ozarks.

    A few hundred miles from the closest international border.

    Surrounded by hillbillies with guns waiting to shoot something, And has the home of the B2s near by.

    GOOD LUCK

  6. If Alaska isn’t allowed, probably somewhere in the desert or Rocky Mountains.

  8. “Hillbillies with gun”

    How about rocket scientists with guns, an FBI ordinance school, etc?

  11. I may be a little biased but I think that Salt Lake City, Utah, would be quite the contender. It’s in a valley surrounded by mountains and a large lake. And if we call up some Mormons from the suburbs, they’ll bring their guns.

  13. Pittsburgh. It’s all steep hills, nonsensical street layout, heavy thick woods, ridgelines overlooking the city proper, and the most bridges of any US city. There’s lots of gun owners in and around the city, probably some of the highest concentrations of hunters in the country. It’d be a nightmare.

  14. Anywhere in Nebraska.

    You got a lot of ground to cover from every direction before you get close

  17. I think TN, SC, GA, NC and FL

    Swamps, moutains, marsh, forests, high humidity, hot temperatures, but can also get snow in the states with mountains, dominant gun culture and lots of small towns.

    I think it would be a hard run to make to get all those areas under control.

  19. What size city are we talking? It’s more of a town but I think lake Tahoe would be fairly impenetrable at its altitude and surrounded by mountains.

    If we’re talking decent sized metropolis I’d say SLC. Surrounded by mountains and deserts far from any coasts and historically the Mormons were basically an army settling that land. I’m sure that area is probably still fairly heavily armed

  20. Who’s invading? Are we talking boots on the ground? Is it other Americans or foreigners?

    Too many questions need to be answered

  23. Atlanta at rush hour. They’d be stuck in traffic so long by the time they got to where they were supposed to they’d have already given up and decided to go to a strip club.

  24. New Orleans. Gangbangers and Cajuns and Crocs. Guerilla warfare in the swamp.

  26. Any city in a 2A friendly state.

    There would be more armed citizens than troops of either side. 

  30. I’m going to say New York City. Dense population, tall buildings so the defenders have high ground, all kinds of different ways of getting around, very strong neighborhood cohesion, memory of Sept 11.

    How would an invading army secure the subway / railroad tunnels? Or the rooftops?

  31. No one would even try to invade any city in Kansas because there’s nothing in Kansas worth a ground invasion. Plus, I imagine it’s hard to get here from anywhere you might land troops.

  32. NYC. The NYPD has the budget of a small country and imagine trying to fight street to street.

  33. There are so many geographic choke points to invade the greater Seattle area.

  35. El Paso. Can’t come from the south because Mexico. Can’t come from the east without going through Texas first. North is mountains. West is all desert.

  36. Just for the pure street name confusion—Atlanta, GA. So, we rendezvousing on Peach Street Avenue or Peach Street Blvd or Peach Street South or…?

  37. Invasion fantasy? We’re never getting invaded. Most of our problems are internal.

  38. Fayetteville, North Carolina. Home to Fort Bragg, one of the biggest military bases in the world with about 50,000 military personnel. Good luck with that

  42. Seattle is surrounded by difficult geography (both mountains and water) and military bases. The city itself has tight choke points and a lot of hills. There are shipyards, plane manufacturing, and a lot of tech. The civilian populace…wouldn’t be much help.

  43. Charleston, WV. We had to build our airport (which is the largest in the state and only takes prop planes and Canadair-sized jets) by lopping the top off a mountain and settling for that being the runway, so it would be nigh onto impossible to land an invasion force by air. Paratroopers would be coming down in forested hollers hundreds of feet deep. The Kanawha River runs south to north and the terrain south is very rugged and mountainous.

    And any direction you care to approach from is filled with acres of heavily forested hills populated by mountain men and their guns. Most folks learn to shoot rabbits, squirrel, doves and deer as children. My nephew got his first buck at 11, legally. During WWII, Appalachia (especially WV and KY) was a big scouting ground for sharp shooters. Three of my great uncles were recruited into the snipers.

    And lest you think we aren’t a target, there are very large chemical, plastic, automotive, metal plants here and coal mines and huge power plants that helped feed energy to the Piketon uranium enrichment plant which would be needed to ramp up production again if we had to reopen it.

  44. Salt Lake City.

    Surrounded by mountains and deserts.

    Once you get through those you have Mormons. Lots of folks might focus on gangs, but Mormons are a HIGHLY organized group who have stores of food, an emphasis on preparedness, and a high rate of gun ownership. In addition, the FBI, CIA, and other three letter agencies are known to actively recruit Mormons (more likely to pass a background check) so you will have a higher level of expertise there. Plus, you could likely expect a high degree of group cohesion and willingness to die for the faith.

  45. Los Angeles. It would have to be a beach landing or through one of like 3 mountain passes.

    We were bogged down for months in Italy in WWII. In Montecasino like a company of SS held up the entire US army and could call in artillary anywhere.

    NYC or Washington DC. Surrounded by so much urban congestion it would take a siege.

    Much line Stalingrad. Building rubble is vert hard to move throufh and easier to defend.

    Forget the plains states. Perfect for tank warfare.

  46. Might get some flak for this but NYC specifically Manhattan island, Stalingrad would look like a cake walk compared to that. Clearing floor by floor, building by building, it would be hell.

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