“We actually have a history of plans to invade one another, none of which are particularly strategically impressive.”
One of them, however, is one of my favorite conflicts. That’s the less-than-famous “Pig War” of 1859.
From Wiki:
“The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and Great Britain over the Canada-U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, between Vancouver Island and the mainland. The Pig War, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a pig, is also called the Pig Episode, the Pig and Potato War, the San Juan Boundary Dispute or the Northwestern Boundary Dispute. With no shots exchanged and no human casualties, this dispute was a bloodless conflict.”
Rear Adm. R. Lambert Baynes, commander of British naval forces in the east Pacific. Baynes, appalled at the situation, advised Douglas that he would not "involve two great nations in a war over a squabble about a pig."
I admire the sentiment, but dang it, it's all we had.