Re: [OT]Nukes... tunnels.... boom....

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:53:42 -0800, Michael Llaneza
<maserati@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>I fail to see what the flap is over the "release" of this document.
I've 
>read several news articles on the topic, and all of them mention that 
>this isn't the first such document to be prepared. 

Every now and again, someone in the media mentions US plans for invading
Canada in the 1920s. Canada has plans for dealing with such an invasion.
It's
prudent for every country to do this. However, not everyone who
understands
the military likes to hear such things. They can't understand why the US
might
have, say, have a plan for nuking Great Britain when Britain is a close
ally. 

And, of course, there are degrees of planning. It wouldn't surprise me,
for
instance, to find that the US has a short plan for taking over any one
of a
number of British submarine or air bases. This could be in the event of
war
with Britain, or in the event of terrorists trying to take over a base.
It
could be because US assets are in the base, or US assets just happen to
be the
closest at the time. They are all hypothetical, some maybe even
preposterous,
but they make for good exercises and "thought experiments".

I would be _more_ worried if the US and other allied nations didn't do
this! 

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@hyperbear.com
http://www.hyperbear.com

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