| Tango01 | 21 Mar 2018 9:44 p.m. PST |
"An often-asked question in history is which country, from any time period, with its current or previous territorial hold and before, during or after its golden age would be the most difficult to invade? People claim that modern day countries like Luxembourg would be hard to invade, since they are at the very heart of Europe, neighbored by France and Germany. Or perhaps Andorra, the mountainous land locked country bordering Spain and France, home to the sleeping irredentist movements that allow its sovereignty in the first place…"
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| emckinney | 21 Mar 2018 11:59 p.m. PST |
Invading is easy. Invading successfully is hard. Afghanistan 3 -- Superpowers 0? |
| nsolomon99 | 22 Mar 2018 2:13 a.m. PST |
Hmmm …. tricky … well Russia has only been invaded successfully once and that was from the East, by the Mongols, very deliberately in Winter when the swamps and rivers were frozen. |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Mar 2018 2:43 a.m. PST |
Yep, and there's no one on earth who would be able to duplicate that feat without ridiculously high losses to themselves. And very few countries can spare that many dead bodies. Dan |
| Kevin C | 22 Mar 2018 7:08 a.m. PST |
Per square mile, I would say that Switzerland would be the hardest country to invade. If we are talking about absolute terms, then I would say the United States would be the hardest country to invade. In addition to various logistical problems (oceans to the east and west, mountain ranges, vast size, etc.) and the power of the U.S. military, there is the fact that the civilian population of the U.S. is well armed (possessing over 300 million firearms). |
| daler240D | 22 Mar 2018 7:47 a.m. PST |
in Risk it is clearly Australia |
| haywire | 22 Mar 2018 8:30 a.m. PST |
Yeah, Australia has the added effect of EVERYTHING wants to kill you. |
 The Virtual Armchair General  | 22 Mar 2018 9:02 a.m. PST |
So, what would be so easy about Bolivia? I mean, how many other countries do you have to invade just to get there? TVAG |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Mar 2018 9:36 a.m. PST |
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| Andrew Walters | 22 Mar 2018 9:52 a.m. PST |
North Korea would be very difficult because you would win and once you're in charge things get very hard. Vatican City would be hard to invade without invading Italy first. I guess it would be really easy for Italy to invade. Sudan has also been traditionally difficult, though it might not be now. Wakanda apparently has some kind of force field. I haven't seen the movie yet so I don't know exactly. Korea fended off the Samurai in the 1590s, that certainly deserves a mention. Grand Fenwick is pretty daunting. |
| General Kirchner | 22 Mar 2018 9:58 a.m. PST |
hard to invade or worth keeping once you realize what a dump the place is, and why are we here in the first place? |
| Tango01 | 22 Mar 2018 10:52 a.m. PST |
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| Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 22 Mar 2018 11:06 a.m. PST |
I was watching a film on Netflix called Tomorrow, When the War Began (basically a slightly more thoughtful Australian version of Red Dawn) the other day. Where some sort of SE Asian coalition invades Australia and all I kept think was wouldn't that be really difficult the sheer size of Australia just seemed to make it impractical. |
| TMPWargamerabbit | 22 Mar 2018 11:37 a.m. PST |
Knowing some people where their basement would be dangerous… why step outside the national border. |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Mar 2018 12:00 p.m. PST |
Grand Fenwick for the win! Prince Rupert, you might recall these: TMP link
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| Andrew Walters | 22 Mar 2018 12:04 p.m. PST |
Vis-a-vis the sheer size of Australia, remember that you don't have to invade the outback. 15 million of the 25 million population are in the seven largest cities. It has a large total area, but probably an inhabited area the size of Iowa or something. |
 Legion 4   | 23 Mar 2018 6:26 a.m. PST |
Any nation, region, area, Objective, etc., can be invaded. It's just whether you want to pay the prices … I.e.: the ever frequent Blood and Treasure paradigm. And today … that can be very high generally. With modern tech and the cost to deploy/use it. Regardless of the "opponent's" loses in either. The cost of killing the enemy is one thing but destroying infrastructure is something else. Including how much "firepower" you want to use based on how much you have. Plus based on "firepower" used, what do you want to do with the "OBJ" once all resistance ceases. A dead lifeless moonscape would not be of very much use, I'd think … |
| Pyrate Captain | 04 Apr 2018 5:46 p.m. PST |
Anywhere but the Chicago area whose local governments have disarmed its responsible residents. DesMoines would be hard to take. |
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