You're sitting at home playing video games or something insignificant, and suddenly you see in the sky what appears to be a giant spaceship. You turn on the news and see a State of Emergency has been declared. Riots are being shown, mobs of people running. Cities all over the world are in a wreck and it's complete pandemonium.
I was pondering this for a little bit, wondering, "Could the world be safe from advanced hostile extraterrestrials?" I'm not too sure myself on the answer.
First off, at the initial sign of an attack, we would have people rioting and looting. Much violence and mayhem going on. There would be a lot of organization lost and difficulties launching an attack.
There is the possibility of nuking them, but that would be impractical. We have no idea where there home planet is and nukes probably can't reach it. And even if ships in the air are big enough tfor nukes to be necessary, they may be too low. And even with the possibility of it being high enough, debris would be a major side effect and could in the process kill many humans. Nuking isn't the best option.
It could work if we were to somehow get everybody important into nuclear bunkers. We would launch the nukes and conduct attacks from underground in our safe shelter. Of course, due to the immoralities launched by war, everyday citizens like you and me may not be considered. The nukes would be launched as we cower in fear of being attacked by aliens. Instead, our own people end up killing us first with these weapon. The cost of civilians' lives for taking the enemies. This would not lead to the happiest of endings.
Now, we do have other bombs and missiles, and we have jets for the means to launch them. But these may not be useful. If the alien race is more advance than us, they may have near impenetrable armor on their vehicles, they would be faster than ours, and they could probably escape from anything as primitive as the missiles we use on fighter jets.
Oh, but what about stealth planes? The aliens could probably easily detect it with their advanced technology. There's no likely steal attack for us.
But what if they only have ground forces? With this unlikely possiblity, we may have some chance if we are somehow able to lure them into an area and quickly retreat out of it and nuke said area. But do you really think they would be that foolish? And no, fighting them with our vehicles as their vehicles probably have advanced armor that we could not penetrate in any practical way.
Although, this war could be won with enough stealth from infantry soldiers. The aliens probably have infantry and such also, and they probably don't carry around impenetrable armor since that would be too heavy. Although, they probably have pretty strong armor on them still so you would need heavy fire power or the ability to attack a weak spot.
The methods of these stealth operations would need long planning and careful attention to keeping the people being sent from being revealed. We could have a person skydive onto an area if it happens to be in the air, perhaps an flying base, but they'd need to do it as fast as possible so that the vehicle they were in shows up for only a second on any radar type devices the aliens have.
Would could have submarine bases, ready at any time to launch bombs on an area, but that might not always be powerful enough against the advanced weaponry of the aliens. It would be useful for our ground troops who are in stealth operations though. These could be used as methods of transportation in a way that won't br detected as easily, and attacks to take out any places that would warn aliens could be conducted before the troops reach their destination.
But, even with these methods, there would be the constant fear of these not being successful. Of it just be an annoyance to the aliens. We might have no hope against their advanced weapons.
Now, you may be asking why they would attack us. Like humans, many of them might like war and feel an urge to start it. Maybe they like to feel better than another race. Maybe they just like violence. Maybe they want the planet for themselves to colonize. Either way, if beings like this more advance than us were to attack us, we probably would die. But try to keep hope of the off chance we could be better at war.
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