If I may be so bold, and coming from an outside perspective, it seems to me that the bulk of the tensions mentioned previously in the thread regarding Kishiro/Samura/Hogosha/the Farmers/the Blue Men of Kentucky and Omega-49 had very, very little to do with the ZDF.
One example of this whole controversy (again, from the outside) would be condemning the children of a felon because the felon killed twelve people, thus the child must be inherently bad. The ZDF stated its intents, the other Zoners were acting on something that some Molly told them. It would, in fact, be less in-RP to ignore what is basically somebody shouting "BOMB!" in an airport. (Please don't break down my door, FBI)
This thread is for feedback regarding the ZDF, not what Zoners did before its conception. They've said that they wont 'lock down a system, grr' and they've said what they will do. Let's mosey back on topic, shall we?
I like the marines. I've already told Cross what I think is plausible on Skype, but for those ZDF who care:
I think it's only doable in forum, for the most part, despite how awesome the idea is in theory. Sure, troop movements could be played out in-game using an AT/X-Shuttle, but that would probably be the extent of it unless you find somebody willing to play out a boarding... Which is always good fun, if either party can do it right.