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The following is a full-text reproduction of the 1935 plan for a US invasion of Canada prepared at the US Army War College, G-2 intelligence division, and submitted on December 18, 1935.
A country invading a NEIGHBORING country just to its north, by means of crossing an undefended land border? What a bunch of baloney !! What fantasy !! Who ever HEARD of such nonsense? That would have been against the LAW !!!
Wow... special... glad our priorities changed before we lost a soon-to-be vital mobilization potential via the paranoid reactionism of an overly ambitious war machine. Sad this silliness of misprioritization repeats itself. Call it a hunch or an eye for the obvious, but I think D-Day would've gone a bit differently had we been in a quagmire with Canada.
When I look at history, I'm really glad some people lost the reins of politics at certain junctures. I guess it's common to worry that those people have had a firm grip on the reins in the present.
Wow... special... glad our priorities changed before we lost a soon-to-be vital mobilization potential via the paranoid reactionism of an overly ambitious war machine. Sad this silliness of misprioritization repeats itself. Call it a hunch or an eye for the obvious, but I think D-Day would've gone a bit differently had we been in a quagmire with Canada.
When I look at history, I'm really glad some people lost the reins of politics at certain junctures. I guess it's common to worry that those people have had a firm grip on the reins in the present.
I think that the US, and likely most other nations always have "contingency" plans in place. A sort of basic blueprint to use, "just in case". I doubt that any unilateral designs on Canada were entertained. But as Canada was aligned with the U.K. a plan was probably worked up as the U.K. was, at the time our largest competitor for raw materials, and industrial prowess.
When one looks at the history of the era, the U.K. was in a similar situation to what the U.S. finds itself in today. Having been victorious in WW I, they had nonetheless, for all practical purposes bankrupted themselves in waging the war, and went on a massive austerity program thru the twenties and thirties, scrapping most of their naval power(power to project) in the process.
The only thing to support their huge military expenditures after the world war, would have been another war. The only worthy opponent at that time would have been the U.S., as that was their direct competition on the world stage. It has been posited that the naval treaties of early 20's created enough common ground to prevent what may have been an Anglo-American confrontation over raw materials, spheres of influence, etc. at that time.
Comparing the situation today, between the U.S, and China as the rising economic, and eventually military power is an interesting study.........
Think China has a contingency plan for Taiwan?, Japan?, South Korea?, any of which could be equated to the U.K.'s Canada in the 1930's.
As to your final paragraph, I'd point out that the same president, and administration that devised this plan in 1935, was in place in 1941 at the start of WW II.
Last edited by Compression; 09-09-2009 at 06:26 PM..
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