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

Personally, I'd get a lot of entertainment out of reading the plan for a
Canadian offensive directed at the states... 

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 01:53, Michael Llaneza 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. Most of them at
least 
> hint that if we *didn't* have such a document we'd be massiviely 
> incompetent. There really ought to be at least a single-page plan 
> covering every nation on Earth, no matter what their current alignment

> is - and too bad to whomever doesn't like it. For example, I sincerely

> hope we have a contingency plan covering what to do if the Saudis
order 
> our troops out, and another covering a coup putting our forces in S.A.

> in imminent danger. It's just sensible to plan ahead for everything 
> possible [1]- it gives the junior planning officers something to do.
> 
> 
> [1] The Pearl Harbor Lesson
> 
> 
> Jeremy Sadler wrote:
> 
> >>"The Bush administration, in a secret policy review completed
> >>early this year,
> >>has ordered the Pentagon to draft contingency plans for the use
> >>of nuclear weapons
> >>against at least seven countries, naming not only Russia and the
> >>"axis of evil"--Iraq,
> >>Iran, and North Korea--but also China, Libya and Syria."
> >>These are Contingency Plans. Like the ones the US has in the
> >>1930s against war
> >>with Japan, war with Britain, war with Canada, war with
> >>Australia. Just do a
> >>search on "Warplan Scarlet", "Warplan Crimson", "Warplan Red" etc.
> >>
> >
> >I am very sure, given the size of the nuclear arsenals of the USA and
the
> >Soviet Union in the past, that such plans have been in existence for
a long,
> >long time and this "review" is possibly more of an "update".
> >
> >
> >

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