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Originally Posted by PIMking
Okay nevermind. I understand what CPT Crunch is saying. I don't really see anything coming out of this but lets play the what if game.
If the Russians do attack what does America do with Afghanistan and Iraq? Do they just pull everyone out and head up north?
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Since bringing troops back home would involve them either flying or boating them over territory that Russians control or can exert a lot of force over, which means that the Russians could probably effectively cut off re-enforcements, an invasion of Canada by the Russians would certainly be countered with a nuclear threat.
In fact early NATO doctrines emphasized that in the event of a armed invasion of a NATO country nuclear weapons usage was part of the defense strategy on a tactical level. In other words if the Russians would have invaded Germany, America, Britain and France would immediately target key road and rail road interchanges, logistic centers military basis, naval bases and ship yards and of course removal of the nuclear threat, while carefully avoiding the use of city busting weapons.
So if for example, Canada was invaded, re-enforcements could not quickly be bought back, the President would almost instantly escalate to a nuclear threat, or even more likely launch counterforce first, go after the targets listed above and try to limit Russian retaliation.