Originally posted by USAF385:
I just saw Red Dawn a week or two ago for the first time! Someone mentioned it on one of the forums, so I checked it out. I really liked it!
They should make the invaders Canada... Nobody ever suspects Canada.....
That was done in South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut. The Canadian Airforce kills the Baldwin brothers and later there is a full scale invasion of floppy headed, beady eyed Canadians.
In the real world, there were active plans for war with Canada and the UK right up to WW2. The essence of Mahan's theory of naval supremacy was that war with the British empire would come and thus the interwar U.S. Navy was built up with an idea that it would fight the Royal Navy.
The Canadians had similar plans. The Canadians, being dastardly fellows, realized that their only hope was to hold out until help came from Britain and the Commonwealth, so they had plans to disrupt the U.S. war effort. Infiltrators really were supposed to sneak across the boarder and dynamite railroad tracks, shoot random people, and even set off mustard gas bombs. One plan was to send "touring hockey teams" in buses into the U.S. who'd really be Canadian sabotage teams. (I'm not making that up either, MHQ had an article on it years ago.)
In 1935 the U.S. Army held the then largest peacetime manuevers ever, which simulated a motorized infantry assault on Canada. This involved over 30,000 troops and took place in upstate NY. The 1940 Louisiana manuevers later surpassed it, but it was the first mobile warfare exercise in the U.S.
Reportedly, Canadian forces still have plans for "counter annexation operations" to oppose American attempts to take over Canada. A Sergeant assigned to the Michigan Nat'l Guard HQ meanwhile told me, in all seriousness, that they had plans to fight the Canadian Army if they tried to invade Michigan. Neat huh?
