"Steve B" wrote in message
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I can see that preparation and stocking will give some people a
little more time. But after the siege mentality, it's a waiting
game.
Steve

Historically when governments fail the inhabitants join into local
resistance cells and establish an active defense with patrols and
roadblocks, so a brutal small-unit civil war between raiding and
defending warlords develops.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francs-tireurs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Reivers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord

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