U.S. plans to invade Canada after the First World War

[Cees Binkhorst]

REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl

Dit verhaal spreekt voor zichzelf, maar in de context van een _wet_
om Amerikanen voor het War-tribunal in Scheveningen te ontzetten,
toch ook weer niet helemaal.

Van Straight Dope Staff Report:
U.S. plans to invade Canada after the First World War?
This is one of the most bizarre stories I've come across
on the Internet, and the most bizarre part is that it's
true. The U.S. military really did develop a "Joint Army
and Navy Basic War Plan--Red" in the 1920s and '30s, and
it really did include provisions for an invasion of
Canada by the United States.

The document was declassified in 1974, so this isn't
really a new story, but there has been some hoopla
about it lately. Concerns in some quarters
notwithstanding, the whole thing was just a theoretical
exercise in military planning. The brass would have
made better use of their resources planning for a war
with Germany, but that wasn't politically expedient.
They reasoned that planning for unlikely wars was better
than no planning at all. War Plan Red was never intended
to be put into action except in the event of a war with
the United Kingdom, an eventuality that everyone would
agree was highly unlikely after about 1900.

For more, see:
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcanadawar.html

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