Ability of the US Gov (state and federal) to deal with invasion by teleportation

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Michael Thayne

As a baseline, I'm thinking many scenarios likely involve, functionally, an enemy ground-force "teleporting" into/near a major population center without warning.

Exactly what could a "super" response to that do anyway?

Relatively few supers are all that effective against mass enemies. Killing single strong foes, yes, lots of them are good at that. Dispersed threats, well, most of them can still only be one place at a time. There's a reason superhero stories are about fights with demigods, and not floods, plagues or fire ants. You probably don't need to mobilize a very large fraction of anybody's national army to be as effective against a ground invasion as your nations supers could ever hope to be. That's not to say they can't provide valuable support - especially if the invaders have some demigod equivalents with them - but they aren't likely to win this fight themselves in a realistic universe. In genre rules can of course be different.