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Originally Posted by pan6467
I truly have always wondered and this thread does allow the question..... if Canada is anti-war, why do they have the 3rd strongest navy?
I know this for a fact because a few PO1st's and Chiefs when I was in the US Navy, would say when they retired they were going to join the Canadian Navy as advisers. I thought at first it was a joke until a couple of them told me how the Canadian Navy was very strong.
Just wondering.
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Canada had the world's 3rd largest navy as of the end of WW2, mostly because every other navy had been sunk. Well, and we had a huge merchane marine (to ship goods over the atlantic).
I doubt Canada still has the 3rd largest navy.
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Originally Posted by retsuki03
I respect Canadian's decision, but I don't understand it.
If they really didn't have to pay for anything and just give the US land, then do they really have a reason to oppose it? For a country that is supposed to be a good ally of the US, they don't seem to be acting like it.
My person opinion is that Canada is trying to assert itself as a sovereign nation, rather than being viewed as the 51st state. This coupled with the disdain for Bush and all things military, I am not at all surprised with Canada's decision.
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Because the technology leads to the weaponization of space. Because the star wars program is viewed with distain. Because Canadians are upset with some of the US's foriegn policy decisions. Because it may lead to a new arms race.
I don't nessicarially agree with it, but I understand it.
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Originally Posted by daswig
Heh. What's Canada going to do if they are pissed at North Korea? Attack them with harsh language? North Korea's ground forces outnumber Canada's by a factor of more than 10 to 1. Canada's navy is, best-case scenario (in reality, they need US help to defend their shores), barely adequate to defend Canadian waters, they have no ability to project force. how would Canada express it's displeasure with North Korea? Most likely, they'd go to the UN, and the UN would ask the US to help Canada out. Somehow, if Canada refused to let us use their airspace, I doubt America would be receptive.
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If we had to, we'd nuke them. More practically, we'd invote NATO mutial defence. If NATO falls apart, it wouldn't take Canada long to build nuclear weapons and retaliate. You do know that Canada know how to build them, we just choose not to out of a point of policy, right?
If that fails, we could invoke conscription. Our economy makes the N.K. economy look tiny -- even with 1/3 of the NK economy devoted to the military, and 1.1% of Canada's, Canada outspends the NK's on military spending.
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Originally Posted by daswig
Britain is a paper kitten (they no longer qualify as a paper tiger) from a military perspective. Remember how touch and go the Faulklands War was?
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That war was against a higher technology military than any the US has fought since WW2, wasn't it? Maybe I missed a war...