re: If America was attacked by other countries how would we defend with no military?

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it's not like they can fly bombers over from china in a single trip ?

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I guess you're not familiar with aerial refueling lol.

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It's Saturday and you're thinking about this dumb shite?

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Well, this and countless other thoughts of dumb shite.

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How brutal would Americans be with our backs against the wall

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As long as we have facebook we will win.

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they would restore those things once the city surrendered, similar to WWII

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we would blow the frickers up if we were being occupied. it's not like we'd turn the "off" switch and then let them turn it back on

same with our air strips and roads. we're not acting in a vacuum of normal life. we're facing occupation. we would fight dirty and frick our shite up to frick them over because we have teh understanding that they could not supply their army if we stop them from doing so

then it's a matter of suffering the losses of infrastructure and population on the west cost while the other 250M people and the 85% of our land organizes some sort of resistance. we would make that choice and the invaders would be limited. like i said, tehy take the west coast? great. have fun crossing a mountain range that crosses our nation, with a sweltering desert being the only flat area to cross

it's a logistical nightmare

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I guess you're not familiar with aerial refueling lol.

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i don't even know what their capabilities are, let alone are for an entire pacific trip...that they could make once

nobody flies bombers over the pacific ocean to make one trip. that would deplete their very limited resources quickly

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the wouldn't attack the coast, they do a land invasion from two fronts after they bomb us into the stone ages.

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they still don't have bases and face the exact same issues. are we presuming we let them invade canada and mexico for a few years and build a bunch of bases while ignoring the issues?

and we'd still have austrailia and NZ to face them in the pacific and Europe to come on over to save us frmo the Atlantic

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a. this scenario presumes we have no allies. if we had no military, we'd still have the militaries of canada, mexico, australia, NZ, etc. they would not sit idly by and watch their major economic partner be destroyed. hell it would take europe less time to get over here to help than for china/russia to cross the pacific. if the US was destroyed, Europe would be destroyed economically

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First off, this scenario is completely made-up so if we're gonna start getting into the diplomatic and alliance implications than that's a whole new level of what-if's and yea, then absolutely they're f'ed (although if we did somehow not have any military then maybe we're not the economic juggernaut we are now and maybe they don't have as much allegiance but that's a whole new subject).

As far as I'm concerned from what the OP said, someone decides to invade us and no one else intercedes. It's us vs them.

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b. that army could not sustain any sort of operation. they would not have the supplies or ability to supply itself. destroying our infrastructure destroys their ability to sustain the invasion. it's a catch-22. the US gets around this by having bases and allies EVERYWHERE. this invasion would not have this advantage

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Eh, I think they'd come from the Pacific and do it fairly easily. Everyone naturally assumes Russia, but Australia would have a chance to do it as well (they've always been our ally, but again this scenario is totally made-up so why not them?). They'd basically do the opposite of our island-hopping campaign in WWII and be in Hawaii in a week or so (again, we've got no Navy to stop them and no sizable on-island resistance.

From there they easily bounce to California and basically seize the entire West Coast in a month. They'd have the supply lines to do it and Australia exports as much to the energy infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region as anyone. If they wanted to concentrate all this on fueling an invasion they could IMO. Then once they have the West Coast, they setup fortifications, overtake our resources and start fueling their operation from US soil. Remember, we have only small-arms so we have no way of overtaking them. Then, when they feel like it (or if we surrender), they take the rest of the US.

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Why would the mountains matter?

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have you ever seen a tank drive over a mountain?

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Come in on the west coast, bomb and take over those cities/states. Fly over the Rockies and bomb all the major population centers

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and where are all the supplies for these bombers coming from?

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they still don't have bases and face the exact same issues.

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Mexico and Canada have bases and don't have an army to hold them. They would be in enemy hands in weeks.

And Germany, UK, etc. are the ones attacking us apparently, so I don't think they are coming to save us

The B-52 Stratofortress an unrefueled combat range of 8,800 miles so I figure their capabilities are somewhere in that ballpark.

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nobody flies bombers over the pacific ocean to make one trip. that would deplete their very limited resources quickly

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You don't say?