Great piece! We are now entering a 19th century style competition between great powers, without the guardrails developed after the two world wars. Territorial conquest is now back in vogue, unpunished, unsanctioned. Might makes right again. Canada, with vast natural resources spread over a large and largely unprotected territory in the north, is a juicy target for the US, just like Greenland.
Canada stands no chance of defeating the US conventionally, so the country can't deter a land grab with its armed forces. What the country can do however, is train
its population for guerilla warfare with a Territorial Reserve, composed of citizens who would be promised no foreign deployment and no mobilization for natural disaster assistance. This would ensure more recruits. The bet is that the mere existence of this Territorial Reserve would make the prospect of occupation prohibitive.
Great piece! We are now entering a 19th century style competition between great powers, without the guardrails developed after the two world wars. Territorial conquest is now back in vogue, unpunished, unsanctioned. Might makes right again. Canada, with vast natural resources spread over a large and largely unprotected territory in the north, is a juicy target for the US, just like Greenland.
Canada stands no chance of defeating the US conventionally, so the country can't deter a land grab with its armed forces. What the country can do however, is train
its population for guerilla warfare with a Territorial Reserve, composed of citizens who would be promised no foreign deployment and no mobilization for natural disaster assistance. This would ensure more recruits. The bet is that the mere existence of this Territorial Reserve would make the prospect of occupation prohibitive.