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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Even if your allied with a power like the States you have to make an effort to have a concerted defense strategy. The American's aren't going to spill blood for us, if we just sit back and let then defend us.

As one President who is universally hated stated to our Prime Minister, one day a president and it might not be this one, will get sick of carrying the load for North American Defense.

There are also minimum defense considerations to maintain membership in NATO and NORAD.

you also can't just assume that America is going to put our defense as a priority over their own aims and objectives.

Your right, we don't have a huge Military, we now have a very competent military, but the idea of it is to hold the enemy off until help comes, and even a small military can bleed the crap out of an invasion force on our home turf, tear the guts out of enemy logistics and slow down the advance.

But unless your willing to allow American Aircraft to base on our bases, have American's patrol our coastal waters for us, and American's to decide our defense policy without asking us you need to have a balanced and effective military so we at least get a seat at that table.

If you say to the American's that we can't defend ourselves and we want to cheap out and let you do that, then you are putting something that is a key part of your sovereignty into the American's hands, and they will decide every aspect of defense in North America with us being treated as a client state, and eventually, they will make us pay for that.

We already did, they have been in charge of our defence policy since the late 50's and they do make us pay for it.