Scott Mbley, War On The Rocks: The U.S. Navy's Secret, 11-Page Plan To Conquer Canada
The U.S. Navy schemed to invade Canada during the summer of 1887. This fact may surprise readers familiar with the long history of amicable relations between the United States and its northern neighbor. Even in 1887, the United States and the British Empire (which included Canada) were on generally agreeable terms. Nevertheless, Lt. j.g. Charles C. Rogers, USN, observing that “the frontier of Canada is assailable at all points,” imagined a joint Army–Navy campaign to seize Canada’s strategic heartland. “The distribution of her population, and the situation of her most important cities and strategical points,” he posited, “suggest three invading armies from the United States.”
WNU Editor: The funny thing about the U.S. and Canada is that most of the world wants to emigrate to the the U.S. and be American citizens .... but in Canada .... most people (99%) prefer to be Canadians rather than Americans. I know in my case .... my nationality may be Russian, but I am proud to be a Canadian, and my loyalties now reside with this country .... except when it comes to hockey between Canada and Russia. :)
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The U.S. military is just butt hurt over 1812, 13, 14....basically the whole war.
The pre-World War II U.S. military was very small, and war planning was done in the service war academies as a way to combine academics with every military's need to have lots of plans on the shelf for every possibility. Students would, by the early 20th century, complain about having a war plan against Canada being part of the curriculum, and be told in reply that it was an academic requirement so as to exercise things like winter weather planning, wide open terrain, and a naval battle against the Royal Navy. A different approach to war planning was taken by the Royal Navy in the early 20th Century - it was forbidden to make even academic war plans against America so as to preclude the results being used to justify budget increases.
Canada's Military has plans even today to deal with an American invasion and I suspect that America has plans to invade Canada, this is what countries do.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/review-kevin-lipperts-war-plan-red-looks-at-the-planned-canada-us-war/article24700647/?service=mobile
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Better than mexico.........
The U.S. doesn't need to plan an invasion when the Canadian Government has already
signed an agreement to let them come in. It's called the "Civil Assistance Plan"
http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/news/article.page?doc=the-canada-u-s-defence-relationship
I read this one as a kid.
http://www.amazon.com/Bordering-Aggression-Evidence-Military-Preparations/dp/0921842090
Regardless, I highly doubt the "brass" in Canada would fight against a U.S. invasion or occupation----which would more than likely be a result of a revolution or a radical leftward swing in government . It's just not in them. In my opinion, they'd be more likely to work with the U.S. to put down any resistance by the Canadian people or pull a coup.
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