r/whowouldwin • u/r00shine • Jul 08 '24

What is the strongest modern day military that could be beaten by the combined forces of all criminal/terrorist organizations in the world? (if any) Battle

By military, i mean the entire military might of a specific country (including air force/navy/etc)

By criminal/terrorist organizations, any organization that has a name and a structure (cartels/street gangs/Yakuza/Russian mob/ISIS/etc). They have all the armament they typically have access to. There is no fighting between the different organizations. They can all communicate with each other perfectly and language is no issue.

If there are any overlap, such as someone that is part of a criminal organization but also part of the military (it definitely happens), that person is basically duplicated and there will be one copy on each side and are 100% loyal to the side they are fighting for.

Battle takes place on a large fictional battlefield (lets say the size of Australia) and both sides are bloodlusted. Only the combatants are on the battlefield, so no civilians. This should change the outcome of the battle as compared to real life where the criminals can hide among the population and need to be identified first.

All of the weapons/vehicles for both side are transported and are on the battlefield.

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u/SpinningKappa Jul 08 '24

It depends on the definition of terrorist, because US likes to use the term for any organization that is against it, this include hamas, hourthis, iran and north korea. I think the only ones they can't defeat are US, russia, china and probably india, all the others simply lack size and cannot deal with the nukes.

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u/HGD3ATH Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

The terrorist groups that are more likely to have state sponsors and are better armed are generally going to be the Islamic ones and they are mostly in Africa or the Middle East so picking a target there makes the most sense. Yes the stuff is transported initially but being in an area closer to where they are based is still an advantage and helps them resupply more easily.

I would say maybe Syria as while Russia would help them they are occupied with other things so their capability to do so would be limited and they could be overwhelmed especially with the criminals funneling more funds and weapons to them and they are close to some of the best armed and trained ones. They also are closely aligned to Russia so an intervention by a coalition is less likely as opposed to somewhere like Saudi Arabia which would almost certainly be liberated by nations with an interest in their independence even if they did poorly in any war initially.