What is the hardest country to invade?

[Treblaine]

Do you know what the Swiss military does? It guards Switzerland, that is the only thing it does. They have mountain bunkers overlooking the border, they have a mandatory military service, they are surrounded by mountains. Even though no one owes them anything, historical neutrality means that attacking them makes you the bad guy. Also, a lot of powerful people are going to be upset about a threat to their money.

You know what they say, "One does not simply walk into Switzerland."

But one can launch off a ramp into the country on a motorcycle!

Spoiler: well, almost

 

[Thaluikhain]

Do you know what the Swiss military does? It guards Switzerland, that is the only thing it does. They have mountain bunkers overlooking the border, they have a mandatory military service, they are surrounded by mountains. Even though no one owes them anything, historical neutrality means that attacking them makes you the bad guy. Also, a lot of powerful people are going to be upset about a threat to their money.

You know what they say, "One does not simply walk into Switzerland."

But one can launch off a ramp into the country on a motorcycle!

Spoiler: well, almost

I lolled.

Also, great movie...his licence plate reads "13337".

 

[GraveeKing]

Russia because of the cold.
And the U.S because of the fact it's in the middle of nowhere and every 'citizen' is going to have a bloody gun, that and the stupidly high number of nukes.
Invader: "We don't like you, we're invading you U.S!"
U.S.A: "EAT FREEDOM *****!" *turns rival country into radioactive dust*

Fixes to invade these country's easier: Russia: Give everyone woolen hats which look awesome. So nobody freezes to death.
Fixes to invade U.S: Don't invade, nuke them first, take out as many silos as you can - and be prepared to shoot down any they launch. That and when you DO need to invade either: Have a VERY big bridge built, a hells big fleet or be Canada/Mexico.

So there you go, the hardest to invade - and the solutions

 

[IAmCaboose]

Australia

1. We are not connected to anyone.
2. Enviroment is diffirent down here
3. We have the best special forces in the world.
4. We have supplie most of the most common things in the world.
5. Gamers will die

Anyone wanna add to that?

6. As we see from Team Fortress 2, we are really all just snipers. Bloody good ones too.

 

[Burs]

I think Switzerland. For all categories. Because with their amazing reputation for neutrality I'd expect every other nation on the planet to go "Oh hells no you did NOT just do that!" and side with them. Good luck fighting the whole world whilst invading a mountain range.

Not just that you expect, its the whole reason behind the swiss' Neutrality; if im correct the treaty that the swiss signed stated that the swiss cant go to war or else everyone would have to attack Switzerland but if a nation delibratly attacks the swiss then everyone has to gang up on the offending country.

 

[ZiggyE]

Australia

1. We are not connected to anyone.
2. Enviroment is diffirent down here
3. We have the best special forces in the world.
4. We have supplie most of the most common things in the world.
5. Gamers will die

Anyone wanna add to that?

Also you have New Zealand as allies...

We're important too.

 

[violent_quiche]

Played Risk? Australia: you can only go in through the top and we concentrate all the guns on the doorway

(haven't read the whole thread so I'm guessing that one has been ninja'd several times over but what the hell)

Seriously: US for it's collective firepower, Russia for it's terrain and spare a thought for Afghanistan, aka the Burial Ground of Empires. Easy(ish) to invade, total bastard to hold.

 

[Treblaine]

I think Switzerland. For all categories. Because with their amazing reputation for neutrality I'd expect every other nation on the planet to go "Oh hells no you did NOT just do that!" and side with them. Good luck fighting the whole world whilst invading a mountain range.

Not just that you expect, its the whole reason behind the swiss' Neutrality; if im correct the treaty that the swiss signed stated that the swiss cant go to war or else everyone would have to attack Switzerland but if a nation delibratly attacks the swiss then everyone has to gang up on the offending country.

Partially guaranteed by Switzerland holding the riches of so many other countries, the country is full of banks acting as gold-reserves of hundreds of countries, and influential corporations.

An invasion of Switzerland would be more like the world's largest bank robbery, a bank where your money is not insured against loss! Everyone with a bank account would be threatened as everyone has huge financial interests in the Swiss establishment and even without agreement they would attack.

That in combination with the armed citizenry and mountains doesn't make it impossible to invade, just unlikely.

The environment and rifle culture could inflict heavy losses and slow an invasion but it could NOT stop it. But it would buy enough time to prevent a smash and grab invasion, enough time for other countries to be enraged by threatening their bank accounts.

 

[Wolf Hagen]

United Kingdom since they are a damn Island that had enough Naval power to keep of every enemy putting a boot on it since the Skandinavians stopped giving plundering visits.

Switzerland since they got more mointains then Roads (with little secrets inside), more guns then any other European civilians and well... there is not much to get next to Bank Accounts, cheese, chocolate and good air.

And maybe the US since theres a working gun in nearly every home (according to staistics).
But they are on the lowest rank, cause history has shown, that they barely can fight on their own continent without getting their butts get slapped quite hard returning home with more bruises then ammo, but still with a moral victory (like in the war of 1812, Americans know best how to desguise total desasters as glory it seemes).

 

[Peter Croft]

Yeah coz you gusy have so much water that you never have droughts oh wait...

 

[StormShaun]

Australia again.

7. Everybody love us.
8. We have quite alot of allies that are in power

 

[Mudze]

Australia... Seriously, the majority of points along our coasts aren't navigable with boats, the people/sqkm is ridiculously low. We have a great military with fantastic coordination and a populace that just does not give a flying f**k. We can build nuclear weaponry on the fly, and restock by taking over our -really f**king huge- mining industry. The US may be relatively isolated, but Canada and Mexico would be greatful to anyone trying to take over America. Australia isn't connected to anything, and we make damn sure to keep good with our allies.

 

[kahlzun]

Madagascar. They only have one seaport, and they close it whenever anyone sneezes.
http://conflicthealth.com/shut-down-everything/

 

[Bigsmith]

Obligatory...

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Holy shit...

 

[matt87_50]

I would have to say the U.S.A. at the moment.

the hardest part would be convincing yourself why you'd even bother...

 

[silasbufu]

I think Russia,mostly because USA is extremely arrogant about these things and it may become a disadvantage.

 

[D0WNT0WN]

Possibly North Koria at the moment.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

Afghanistan, them guy's don't take kindly to occupying forces at all.

 

[Alzam]

Costliest: Somewhere like Australia - Getting your forces over there on top of the actual invasion must be more expensive then other invasion.
Bloodiest: China - As said above the sheer amount of people there
Longest: America/Russia - Fighting superpowers - long and difficult.
Difficult: Russia/America - Ditto.