In the TV series The Walking Dead, why has the military been so ineffective against the walker invasion? If the walkers can be stopped by something as simple as fences and glass doors (like at the shopping mall in season 1 episode 2) can be killed with a bat, or with one gunshot to the head, then how could they compete against the on slaught of hundreds of thousands of soldiers with automatic weapons, Apache helicopters, fighter jets, tanks, and explosives that can wipe out small countries?
I understand that in season 2 it is revealed that "everybody is infected" and that could explain how some soldiers MIGHT turn against their own kind (though certainly there's no evidence I've seen so far that would indicate they would use automatic weapons) but that would have had to happened rapidly and in great masses at a time for it to be effective against the soldiers that are NOT immediately turned... where as the group in the tv series all go without exhibiting any signs of 'changing' for weeks, so why all the soldiers would all suddenly 'turn' doesn't make sense to me.
I understand that in season 2 it is revealed that "everybody is infected" and that could explain how some soldiers MIGHT turn against their own kind (though certainly there's no evidence I've seen so far that would indicate they would use automatic weapons) but that would have had to happened rapidly and in great masses at a time for it to be effective against the soldiers that are NOT immediately turned... where as the group in the TV series all go without exhibiting any signs of 'changing' for weeks, so why all the soldiers would all suddenly 'turn' doesn't make sense to me.