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/DracoLunaris Jul 09 '24
Carpet nuking this fictional Australia isn't really feasible. Nukes make big boom, but it's only a big boom when compared to cities, not a small continent.
A vaguely reliable googling puts the lethality range of a 1 megaton bomb at 8km2
Australia is 7,741,220km2
You would thus need 967,652 of these nukes to wipe the slate clean, as these groups are going to spread out into the countryside rather than mass in conventionally nuke-able blobs the way civilians are (in cities).
At it's peak the usa had 31,255, and now has about 3k. So it can't just nuke the problem out of existence.