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Originally posted by Ustwo
How Canada went from having the 3rd largest Navy in the world, and having VERY respectable ground forces, into the 98lbs weakling of today must be an interesting, if sad, story. Since schools in the US basicly ignore Canadan history, I don't know for sure, but I can make a good guess.
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I don't think it's nearly as interesting a story as you hope. After World War II, we saw how much war sucked and went out of our way to not involve ourselves in one. If there are no wars, then there's no military.
I swear, sometimes the US goes to war just to test their new stuff out!
As a side note, I'm told that our military is rather top heavy. The idea is that if we really needed a military, we have officers who know how to run one so we can just build one up in short time. Also, we have very good nuclear technology but we have no nuclear weapons. Again, the idea is that we're a non-combatant country that could build nukes overnight, if we wanted.
Rather optimistic, I guess, but our national defense is not pissing anyone off enough to warrant them attacking us.
Also, while our tax money is poorly spent, that's the fault of the government and not the direction of expenditure. A billion dollars could easily have been spent on useless military equipment. Look at the Sea King. Look at our crappy "new" submarines...