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WAR PLAN RED The United States’ Secret Plan to Invade Canada and Canada’s Secret Plan to Invade The United States Kevin Lippert Princeton Architectural Press · New York Published by Princeton Architectural Press 37 East Seventh Street New York, New York 10003 Visit our website at www.papress.com. © 2015 Kevin Lippert All rights reserved ISBN: 978-1-61689-352-1 (pb) ISBN: 978-1-61689-360-3 (epub, mobi) No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher, except in the context of reviews. Every reasonable attempt has been made to identify owners of copyright. Errors or omissions will be corrected in subsequent editions. Editor: Tom Cho Designer: Mia Johnson Special thanks to: Nicola Brower, Janet Behning, Erin Cain, Megan Carey, Carina Cha, Andrea Chlad, Barbara Darko, Benjamin English, Jan Cigliano Hartman, Jan Haux, Diane Levinson, Jennifer Lippert, Jaime Nelson, Rob Shaeffer, Sara Stemen, Marielle Suba, Kaymar Thomas, Paul Wagner, Joseph Weston, and Janet Wong of Princeton Architectural Press —Kevin C. Lippert, publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the publisher upon request Table of Contents Introduction 7 PART ONE The War of 1812 8 PART TWO Border disputes 30 PART THREE We’ve got your back: WAR PLAN RED & DEFENCE SCHEME NO.1 54 Appendix A: War Plan Red 88 Appendix B: Extracts from Defence Scheme No. 1 124 Acknowledgments & Sources 140 6 Introduction This book came about following a conversation with Paddy Laidley of Raincoast Books, in Vancouver, who said that Canadians are often (or was it sometimes?) interested in what their neighbors to the south think of them. I remembered her comment when, two days later, President Barack Obama assured a questioner at a press conference that the United States has no plans to invade Canada, and what better exempli- fies our lack of interest than the absence of an invasion plan? (We liked Iraq enough to invade.) The reporter’s question was partly an echo of a secret document, dating back to the 1930s but declassified in 1974, outlining America’s plan to invade Canada—War Plan Red— which sowed the seeds for speculation, mostly comic, about a US takeover in movies like Canadian Bacon and an episode of the TV show The West Wing. As with so many things, the States was behind Canada in thinking about neighborly takeovers: it turned out that Canada had drawn up its own invasion plan, Defence Scheme No. 1, ten years earlier. This small book offers a quick overview of these two plans, starting with a brief history of US-Canada border skirmishes. 7 8 PART ONE THE WAR OF 1812 9 10
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