A very intereseting part of American history that is often overlooked is War Plan Red. It was formulated in 1927 as a plan to fight Great Britain in an all out war throughout the world. This is very suprising, seeing as we had just fought a war a decade earlier to save Great Britain and it’s allies in World War One. Several principle lands were spotlighted in this plan, specifically India and Australia. Most importantly though, Canada was primary target in this hypothetical war. The Canadian part of the plan was called “Crimson”. We hadn’t always had the best of relations with our neighbors to the north, seeing as we invaded them in the War of 1812. However, they were never violent towards us. Intense research was done to find the geography of Canada and the best routes for getting to and taking over the main ports and rail roads. The overall plan of War Plan Red, though, was to release large British foreign lands such as India, Canada, and Australia, and fight Great Britain itself. Canada had a defense scheme as well for a potential American attack, although it aminly consisted of destorying bridges in transportation routes between the two countries. Britain also had their own plan, but they thought that they would most likely relinquish Canada, not wanting to go up against America, and emerging world superpower, in an all out war.
The war never came, however. It’s existence was only made public in 1974. Today, Canada and America as well as Great Britain exist peacefully with one another. We have no good reason to invade Canada, aside from the land and natural resources. We could have easily done it, and we still easily could. American soldiers outnumber Canadian soldiers 23 to 1. Canada only has 27 military bases as well, spread across the vast country. However, I doubt a war between our countries will ever happen, although there are some hard feelings between some individuals of the countries.
America would win.
America will win.
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