There are a number of logistical and logical inadequacies regarding the planning of an earthly invasion. The first serious gap in logic has to do with the sheer land size. Thirty-percent of the planet is land, and that land has 57.5 million square miles. That is a lot of land to cover.

On this land are 7 billion people, over 200 nations, 500 cities worldwide with more than a million people. Of the top 20 nations, we can estimate a military force of 15 million active troops, with probably another 50 million reserves. The top 3 nations—Russian, United States, China—have 50,000 tanks on hand.

There are in excess of 25,000 nuclear warheads in the world; it takes 100 to wipe out all existence. None of the classified technologies and weapons, of which there is a handful especially space-based weapons, are on-line. To militarily attack this planet would require an alien force in the neighbourhood of 20-25 million extraterrestrial troops to simply manage the logistics and the size of the defence.

Even if 1,000 alien ships invaded they could not take over the planet, they might be able to capture a nation or two but they could not control 50 million people. But, a staged invasion, in the fashion of the September 11 attacks, could very well dupe the common citizen who is gullible to illogical paranoia.

Recall that 19 radical terrorists drove the USA, with a population of 315 million people, to invade Iraq and Afghanistan so it wouldn’t be a surprise if 100 alien ships drove the world into WWIII. But the survivors who would look back would see the childishness and lunacy that took place.

What the evil plotters will do is to convince society that a rogue group of bad aliens went nuts (a’la the radicals of 9/11).

Obviously, a small group couldn’t possibly take over the planet. Even if there were 1,000 rogue aliens it wouldn’t be enough, so the media will have to sell it like they did in 2001, that a score of bad people could destroy America’s freedom or that they will eat all the children in France.