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To: steve harris who wrote (326419)	2/20/2007 1:20:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575489

The main military problem with invading Canada wouldn't be defeating their military in the opening stages, it would be dealing with insurgents in the cities and guerrilla fighters in places like the Canadian Rockies. Of course the real main problem wouldn't be military but rather the rest of the world thinking the US had gone insane. Of course your point was that we have made plans for all sorts of different military operations, most of which will never happen, and many of which have not much above a zero percent chance of happening, so the mere existence of plans to attack some country isn't a good reason to think an attack is likely to take place, and I totally agree with that point. Interesting - "As it turns out, Katz isn't the first Canadian to speculate on how to fight the U.S.A. In fact, Canadian military strategists developed a plan to invade the United States in 1921 -- nine years before their American counterparts created War Plan Red. The Canadian plan was developed by the country's director of military operations and intelligence, a World War I hero named James Sutherland "Buster" Brown. Apparently Buster believed that the best defense was a good offense: His "Defence Scheme No. 1" called for Canadian soldiers to invade the United States, charging toward Albany, Minneapolis, Seattle and Great Falls, Mont., at the first signs of a possible U.S. invasion." washingtonpost.com