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Lets not forget a very large swathe of our military functions due to civilian assistance to begin with. What happens when you suddenly lack the logistics and planning sections of your force when (I bet a large portion) refuse to follow your orders to attack the civilian populace. Furthermore, we are under oath to protect and uphold the constitution of America. How many of us that serve actively or in the reserves would actually follow such an order?
For sake of argument, lets just say the order is set at a time where it's extremely morally grey, and interpretation can lead our troops to agree with said order. Even with a force as formidible as our military, we make up such a small percentage of the countries population that it would be virtually impossible to take control of the populace. That's not even taking into account that even if they tried, we have hundreds of thousands of ARMED citizens (if we're not disarmed by then *Takes off tinfoil hat*) both veterans of the military or active/retired LEO's that could oppose such a force.
Who fuels our military with the necessary materials also? Kind of hard to run a military that doesn't have fuel or ammunition to suppress a civilian uprising.
Needless to say, the arguments that this "professor" tossed out there is absolutely ridiculous IMO.
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