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From: jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG])
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Reflections on Memorial Day
Message-ID: <592@water.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-May-85 13:17:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: water.592
Posted: Thu May 30 13:17:12 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 02:30:38 EDT
References: <2339@decwrl.UUCP> <243@ihdev.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG])
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <243@ihdev.UUCP> rastaman@ihdev.UUCP writes:
>
>>	What's to stop the 
>> 	Soviets from catching us in a four-way pincer movement?  Airborne
>> 	assault from Siberia into Alaska, from the USSR across the Arctic Ocean 
>> 	into southern Canada and the central US, by land into California,
>> 	Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, amphibious assault and air (helicopter)
>> 	assault from Cuba into Florida and the Gulf states--it's a cinch,
>> 	particularly if we happen to be engaged in some little Brush-Fire
>> 	war across the pond someplace.  
>> 
>
>Anybody up for net.strategy?  
>
>Airborne assault into Alaska.  Ok, they'd still have a long way to go.
>What about the lengths of the supply lines?  What about the time it
>would take to penetrate to the contiguous 48 states?  Yo, Canucks!
>You folks feel like letting a foreign army march across your country?

We wouldn't like a foreign army marching though this country, but there
isn't much we could do about it.  The Canadian Armed Forces are notoriously
feeble.  We'd wind up with *two* foreign armies marching across our country
-- the Soviets and the Americans.  Not that a lot of Canadians would mind
the US Army helping out in the (unlikely) event of a Soviet invasion.

There are probably a lot more realistic problems to worry about than an
invasion of North America from Asia.

						Jim Tubman
						University of Waterloo