MacCaulay
Banned
I don't know how you read this from my statements, but I don't think you read everything I posted. I made it perfectly clear that sensible defensive deployments in expectation of British aid is a much better idea, not that I believed Canada ought not to fight.
EDIT: Also, does anyone have anything to comment on the likelihood of the plans goals being achieved? Is it likely for the pre-motorization Canadian military to drive hundreds of miles into the United States for whatever benefits they expect to gain from the plan, such as it is?
The fact is, the Canadians expected by the 1930s to lose a war against America. (this is also a war they'd never probably have to fight. That's the most important part.)
This is a completely different way of thinking about warfare than most Americans think about it, and it's how alot of countries think about combat: "We'll probably lose, and there's no cavalry coming over the hill to save us."
The American style of battle is that we'll normally always come out ahead somehow, because we've got the tools to pull out the win. The Canadians don't have that. The never did. So what they have to deal with the hard reality that maybe (probably) they won't win.
So what you get when you write up a plan knowing you'll probably lose in the end is something like this. A plan that really puts the maximum amount of lives lost in your enemy's front yard and out of your own.