I suppose the hope is that the military will fracture because a lot of soldiers won't be happy to shoot at the civilians they're supposedly sworn to protect. But that's entirely dependent on how brainwashed they are, and how much information they're able to get.

I have heard the statement before, and the US napalmed and bombed the crap out of North Vietnamese and Taliban, and yet in both instances the US military lost the wars. I think Americans forgot the art of guerilla warfare since the American revolution and think now in conventional terms.