Not sure how you concluded that citizens and non-citizens wouldn't be distinguished by citizens, the community, and the militia.
True, the cartels run a sophisticated operation, and so did the French in their occupation of Algiers. No organization, not even a sophisticated government and military, can really win a war against a genuinely mobilized population without literally killing the entire population: and good luck not expecting blow-back from that.
Citizens and non-citizens are grouped into the category "trespassers" under your system. You make no distinction between some teenage punk sneaking onto a farm to go cow tipping or something and a thousand-person migrant caravan. They're all just reduced to "trespassers."
Why would you deliberately fight a war with civilians instead of the military?
Yes. And I have a right to remove them from my property. And my neighbor has a right to remove him from his property. And if he doesn't get the message, we can set up a posse and physically remove him from our property.
Respect borders, and there won't be problems.
Why would you deliberately fight a war with civilians instead of the military?
The people will defend their homes with the tenacity of the most aggressive soldiers, because of the value they are fighting for. The professional soldier, is a very well trained, very well equipped, possibly indoctrinated... mercenary. There's no way around it. Only a standing, professional, well-paid, army will go into foreign lands to invade them. But the militia will almost never do that. The militia simply won't allow itself to be used as an offensive mechanism because each member has more important things to do... until their actual homes and communities are threatened.
I could point you to the Battle of Saratoga, Concord, or Bunker Hill, but I could just point out that the US has repeatedly lost wars against militias, like Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Not sure how you concluded that citizens and non-citizens wouldn't be distinguished by citizens, the community, and the militia.
True, the cartels run a sophisticated operation, and so did the French in their occupation of Algiers. No organization, not even a sophisticated government and military, can really win a war against a genuinely mobilized population without literally killing the entire population: and good luck not expecting blow-back from that.
Citizens and non-citizens are grouped into the category "trespassers" under your system. You make no distinction between some teenage punk sneaking onto a farm to go cow tipping or something and a thousand-person migrant caravan. They're all just reduced to "trespassers."
Why would you deliberately fight a war with civilians instead of the military?
Yes. And I have a right to remove them from my property. And my neighbor has a right to remove him from his property. And if he doesn't get the message, we can set up a posse and physically remove him from our property.
Respect borders, and there won't be problems.
The people will defend their homes with the tenacity of the most aggressive soldiers, because of the value they are fighting for. The professional soldier, is a very well trained, very well equipped, possibly indoctrinated... mercenary. There's no way around it. Only a standing, professional, well-paid, army will go into foreign lands to invade them. But the militia will almost never do that. The militia simply won't allow itself to be used as an offensive mechanism because each member has more important things to do... until their actual homes and communities are threatened.
I could point you to the Battle of Saratoga, Concord, or Bunker Hill, but I could just point out that the US has repeatedly lost wars against militias, like Vietnam and Afghanistan.