Quote Originally Posted by jp1 View Post
I guess I'm still waiting for someone to tell me what country has a military that could likely launch a successful attack on US soil given that unless it was Mexico or Canada they'd need to be able to do so from an awful long way away.
Depends on how you define success. While the size of the US military and the geographic isolation of the country certainly diminishes the chances anyone will mount a blitzkrieg against us, there are those who feel that little skirmish in Sept. of 2001 had elements of a successful invasion. The problem might be looking at it through the eyes of the invaded rather than the invaders. We seem to just assume that conquest is the goal when subversion may be more accurate. Attacks in NY, London, Madrid, Mumbai, etc. were generally carried out by foreigners (invaders?) and their actions have lead to at least incremental changes in the behavior of the invaded (success?).