Posted on 12/29/2019 1:51:49 PM PST by fugazi
After World War I, the Joint Planning Committee (the predecessor to today's Joint Chiefs of Staff) created a series of strategies should we find ourselves at war against various countries. War Plan BLACK was for a war with Germany, ORANGE for Japan, GREEN for Mexico, GOLD for France, YELLOW for China, several colors for operations in Central and South America or the Carribean, and the list keeps going.
We even had War Plan RED for war with the United Kingdom in addition to several sub-plans for wars against British territories like Australia, Canada, Ireland, and India. Plus, there was War Plan RED-ORANGE in the event of a war against both the UK and Japan.
These plans assumed the United States was fighting alone and on one front. Before Japan's surprise attacks at Pearl Harbor and the Philippine Islands, the committee wanted a plan in the event of a war in both Europe and the Pacific. War Plan RAINBOW was the result, and it had several contingencies:
With Nazi Germany invading Poland, Hitler's non-intervention pact with the Soviet Union, and Japan's war with China, RAINBOW 5 seemed to be the most likely playbook, and it was sub-divided into additional possibilities:
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"Well, I drafted the plans we would have used to defeat Canada."
This conversation probably happened.
I don’t want my country to go to war, but if we have to go to war, I’d prefer we went to war against the French.
Only problem with going to war with Canada is we’ll have to sell them all their implements of war at a huge discount so they can use it on us.
I heard of this plan many years ago on the radio.
The thing which surprised me is the War Department concluded that it would be a tough war.
Do we really want a scrap with Canada. Both times we invaded, they kicked our asses and sent us back with our tail between our legs.
We need a plan to go to war with Mexico.
They weren’t the snowflakes then that they are now.
YELLOW for China,
True. But the same can be said for us now.
I’d like to see what other countries’ war plans for defeating the United States are. At least militarily, because we can see what the Chinese plan is in action every day.
The west is no pushover, top notch troops and we make Texans look tame.
We also had a plan for war with England (before D-Day).
The military routinely have contingency plans for every possibility you can thunk of and a few thousand you can’t.
SOP
don’t think the same situation applies to today. LOL
>>”Well, I drafted the plans we would have used to defeat Canada.”
This conversation probably happened.<<
“But what will we do if all our Boy Scouts are in Canada?”
It’s not surprising at all, and it would be derelict not to consider all options of whom war might breakout with. After all, we eventually turned against Britain, where most citizens had hailed from, at some point in our history. 8>)
There is no doubt in my mind that our armed forces can defeat anyone else out there if there was a conventional war.
What would impress me far more than having twelve different plans to defeat the British and any combination of their colonies (yes, I am sure we still have them today) would be a plan to effectively defeat modern threats like terrorists and insurgencies. One that actually works, unlike our counterinsurgency strategy from ten years or so ago that was so complicated that only an academic could think it would work.
I am sure we still have such a plan, and one for the invasion of Samoa. We have “contingency” plans for any situation that might come up, possibly one for responding to an invasion of little green men. It is not silliness. We never know whence trouble might come and we have to have some plan in place in order to move very quickly. Such plans typically fall to pieces once there is engagement but they make a rapid start possible.
There is one. Whether it will be implemented is the question.
“...but if we have to go to war, I’d prefer we went to war against the French.”
War with the Canucks would get you all the Frenchies aka Quebeckers you could want.
But come to think of it, if a U.S.-Canada war were to break out, the Quebeckers would turn on Ottawa and fight a civil war for independence.
“Je me souviens” means that what they remember, they want back, even after 250 years.
The USA can invade Canada any time .
I live up here and I can tell you, the drama queen PM, a complete village idiot if there ever was one, is purposefully keeping Canada economically divided by regional economic, interests that support his party. Canada has a market place that does not enjoy any competition to speak of, and the Canadian government tries to guarantee monopolies in some areas, which prevents the market and the economy from expanding.Meanwhile the government feeds the Canadian masses distracting opiate issues like womens rights, ist nations rights, LGBTQ, government grants, child allowance,environmental protection ( When most of Canada already is forest and tundra.) while the government graft and taxation sucks Canada Dry, and I don’t mean the ginger ale either.
Yet Canadians are hard workers, innovative, and Canada has tremendous natural resources being stifled by environmentalists, stubborn 1st nations, and minor French political figures who stymie infrastructure that would cross Quebec to join the country together.
The last thing the liberals and NDP want is a populist movement like we now have in the USA and the UK. The socialists in Canada quake in fear of Donald Trump, which is why the CBC propaganda pumps against Trump in Canada 24/7.
So a US invasion of Canada. BRING IT. The USA would be liberating the people of Canada from an arcane, draconian divide and conquer political system.
The majority of Canadians would welcome being a part of a Republic with guaranteed rights instead of “privileges” which have to be OK’d by the likes of the drama queen PM and his Ottawa clowns.Canadians have been subjected to the tender mercies of its socialist government for far too long.
Bring a US invasion TODAY!
What a gift it would be.
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