re: #205 Targetpractice

Nah, too many of these morons think that Red Dawn was proof that an untrained, poorly armed guerrilla army can go toe to toe with trained soldiers and win. None of them realize that, in a realistic scenario, the Soviets wouldn’t have bothered trying to hunt the kids down. They’d have drawn their men back, then turned the forest into a moonscape with bombs or artillery strikes.

Or the North Koreans in the remake.

A bunch of high school kids are trained by recently returned vet not much older than they and become a corps of wickedly effective guerrillas in about, oh, a few weeks — tops. And with the help of two Marines who have flown a flipping helicopter close to the occupied territory, manage to steal a top secret communications device and flee in a station wagon.

Totally believable.