I believe you recently said something about respect for the uniform. So you think they will be openly told “Go shoot Americans? You are that naive?
Excellent point.
One way that the Statists could eliminate resistance is with a false-flag operation (or an allowed incident) to justify locking down some area [maybe a county or a city] to include controlling comms. In such a situation, it would be easy to make particular people disappear. The horrendous beauty of this sort of plan is that only a very small core of people need to know/instigate/execute the true objectives of the mission.
Tom Clancy did something similar with Clear and Present Danger where a weapons-testing exercise was used to support/hide what was essentially assassination via 500lb bomb air-dropped but made to look like a car-bomb.