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Jeneral2885

(1,354 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:57 PM Jun 2014

No Plans to invade Canada according to General Dempsey

Well, he wasn't testifying on invading Canada, but some Republican asked him about it.

Wednesday’s hearing of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee was informative on a great many serious subjects. It also revealed that the United States isn’t prepared to take aggressive action against its looming menace to the north, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Dan Coats, R-Ind., was asking about how prepared the military was to act in Iraq. “Based on my previous service in the Senate and some service now, I’m totally aware that the Pentagon has a contingency plan on the shelf for just about every possible scenario, everything from nuclear war to an invasion by Canada, and everything in between,” he said, per the transcript by CQ.com.

Answered Gen. Martin E. Dempsey:

Let me first assure you we do not have a plan on the shelf for the invasion of Canada. I want to make sure that our Canadian allies, who may be watching…


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No Plans to invade Canada according to General Dempsey (Original Post) Jeneral2885 Jun 2014 OP
Canadians. They walk among us. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 #1
One of the movies I can watch over and over again and laugh like it's the first time seeing it Submariner Jun 2014 #8
That's good. It's bad enough we're sending military advisers into Iraq. Louisiana1976 Jun 2014 #2
Dempsey didn't comment on Coates statement. Renew Deal Jun 2014 #3
As a Brit Jeneral2885 Jun 2014 #4
And without NORAD, we can't track Santa Renew Deal Jun 2014 #6
Yeah, since it worked so well the last couple of times we tried it... Wounded Bear Jun 2014 #15
Link? Renew Deal Jun 2014 #5
Here you go ... GeorgeGist Jun 2014 #7
And if Congress wanted to, they could find he creatively fibbed nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #9
If assigned this task, I would get WAYYY too into it. AngryAmish Jun 2014 #11
I am sure a poor mid grade staff officer gets assigned that task every so many years nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #13
an I'm sure Jeneral2885 Jun 2014 #17
Thanks, Obama...nt SidDithers Jun 2014 #10
Eh? Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #12
No plans to invade France? mylye2222 Jun 2014 #14
Do we even need Canada anymore? Our hockey teams are already better than theirs Baclava Jun 2014 #16

Renew Deal

(81,839 posts)
3. Dempsey didn't comment on Coates statement.
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 06:13 PM
Jun 2014

Coates said "invasion by Canada." Dempsey said "invasion of Canada."

Setting that aside, invading Canada shouldn't be out of the question. It's past time to take back Canada from the Queen.

Wounded Bear

(58,571 posts)
15. Yeah, since it worked so well the last couple of times we tried it...
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 07:53 PM
Jun 2014


(Look it up if you don't believe me )
 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
9. And if Congress wanted to, they could find he creatively fibbed
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 07:14 PM
Jun 2014

we do have plans for any eventuality, including invading Canada. It is the wargame plans.

And I mean that.

We have had those on the shelf for a long time. They get revised every so often as well. Now the chances of us actually invading Canada in this reality at this time are anywhere from zero to zip to nada

 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
11. If assigned this task, I would get WAYYY too into it.
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 07:19 PM
Jun 2014

It is a function of geeking out, like trying to determine the true top speed of the Millenium Falcon or the various re-litigating of the Battle of Jutland. If my job, which they paid me for, was an exquisitely precise plan of invading Canada, I woukd take years and by the end I would be shouting about the Canuck menace from the rooftops.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
13. I am sure a poor mid grade staff officer gets assigned that task every so many years
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 07:24 PM
Jun 2014

on the bright side, our counterparts have a poor Colonel doing the same at Staff War College.

I remember talking about that in College with a Military Historian, who before he got his PhD, and his tenure was one of those poor shmuck. In his War College Course he got to plan, or rather revise, the Invasion of Mexico. The plan has not changed much since the last time we did actually invaded Mexico. Some of his pals got to do Guatemala, and Canada.

It is what if exercises. As he put it, they just change the designator, they dust them, they revise them here and there, and shelve then again for another class to play with. It's not like anybody takes them too seriously.

 

mylye2222

(2,992 posts)
14. No plans to invade France?
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 07:38 PM
Jun 2014

Ues because Hollande is a SOCIALIST isnt it ?????????????

Bunch of douches

 

Baclava

(12,047 posts)
16. Do we even need Canada anymore? Our hockey teams are already better than theirs
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 08:17 PM
Jun 2014

maybe we should look into it, we need our living space, room to breathe

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