War Plan Red

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The US drew up a plan to invade Canada in 1930. Now Trump is reviving old fears

Now the US is vying regional dominance, experts point to War Plan Red as proof its Canadian allyship has always been flimsy

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War Plan Red: The secret US plan for war with Britain via Canada

In the interwar years, the United States prepared for all kinds of future conflicts, including against its allies. Jonny Wilkes explores the Americans’ secret plan to defeat the British empire, via Canada

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War Plan Red was developed by the War Department after the 1927 Geneva Naval Conference, and approved in May 1930 by Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams III and updated in 1934–35.

Crucial to the success of War Plan Red would be capturing the port of Halifax, in Nova Scotia, as this provided a strategically vital base for British ships. So important was this target that the plan even proposed the use of poison gas to secure it. The hydroelectric plants at Niagara Falls had to be seized too so that the Canadian power grid could be disabled.

Simultaneous assaults on the cities of Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver would ensure the US had control of Canada’s industrial centres and railroads. From this position of strength, the Americans hoped to force the British into a quick peace deal.

the invasion plans, once dismissed as a fumbling historical quirk, have taken on fresh relevance as the US pivots its foreign policy to an increasingly aggressive view of its “pre-eminence” in the western hemisphere and turns its sights on both foes and allies.

1974年才解密，这个思维是不是跟俄罗斯打乌克兰一模一样？
目前51州是不是这个思维的翻版