What do the secret pages of the “Red War Plan” say?
The Sun attached some of the 129 pages from the once top-secret “War Plan Raid” to its story. According to the report, the lengthy document details the situation in which the United States (blue) finds itself at war with Britain (red). It is estimated that the most likely cause of war between the two countries is minor trade disputes. Canada (Crimson) would have been trapped between the two countries, which would have been attacked by the United States from the south. Britain needed its colonial ports to send troops across the Atlantic and resupply the powerful Royal Navy.
According to the report, American generals planned to prevent this incident by launching a rapid attack to seize large parts of Canada. The plan was officially signed on May 8, 1930. This was the time when Adolf Hitler was gathering power in Germany. War planners called the moment “M-Day” when America prepared for war against Britain.
America was afraid of deploying millions of British soldiers in Canada
The Americans believed that Canada would seek an alliance with Britain because both were ruled by King George V. Senior American officials fear that Britain will quickly deploy 100,000 troops from its expeditionary force to Canada. American officials were ready to stop them. They felt that if Britain established itself in Canada, it could quickly increase its forces to more than two million soldiers, and such an army could launch a devastating attack on continental America. The United States wanted to neutralize the Royal Navy, which remained the world’s most powerful force at sea.
There were 1,400 warships in the British fleet.
With the beginning of World War II, the British fleet remained the largest in the world, consisting of 1,400 warships. Within 30 days of war, the Americans feared that Britain would have 14 warships, five aircraft carriers, and more than a hundred other ships surrounding Canada. Therefore, America needed to control all the ports of the Western Atlantic Ocean.
America had a policy of using chemical weapons
War Plan Red was very clear about the scale and scope of the war, giving the US military the authority to use full force from day one. Perhaps one of the most frightening instructions comes in point 11 on page 85. If America went to war with Britain, its policy from day one would be to use chemical weapons against its closest neighbours.
The documents described the need to carry out “explosions on as large a scale as possible.” According to the plan, American warships would be deployed to control the coast of Canada, and if they succeeded in neutralizing their northern neighbors, American forces would begin attacking the British colonies.
The United States would not have achieved complete victory unless it had succeeded in destroying all British armed forces in North America and the western North Atlantic. According to the report, America would have tried to cause serious damage to British interests and seize as much of the empire as possible, which would have made America the leading power in the world.
Britain also responds
Citing War Plan Red in the report, it was said that Britain would certainly have retaliated. Britain would immediately seek a full-scale campaign against America. Britain also considered war with the United States after World War I after defeating its last major rival, Germany.
Vice Admiral Sir Osmond Brooke raised the possibility of Britain going to war with America in 1921. Britain believed that the best way to defeat the United States in war was to neutralize the United States using the Royal Navy. His plan was to quickly mobilize the Navy, destroy American warships, and attempt to close off the world’s shipping routes.
What were Britain’s military planners thinking?
Britain had no formal plans for war with America, but military planners considered a full-scale invasion of America unrealistic. He believed that Britain’s best effort would be to isolate America from the rest of the world and find a peace solution through negotiations rather than war. However, War Plan Red gives a very broad estimate of the British response.
Canada also planned a counterattack
Canadian commanders planned a counterattack given the risk of invasion from the United States in the event of war with Britain. Lieutenant Colonel James “Buster” Sutherland Brown prepared a scheme known as Defense Plan No. 1. Their plan was for Canadian forces to invade North America in a series of attacks known as the “Flying Column.” Canada planned to divert American forces from the attack so that their attack would be slowed and the British would have an opportunity to arrive in force.
America has devised a plan to crush Canada
War Plan Red stated that the Americans wanted to crush Canada before Britain could regain its dominance. The Americans agreed in the plan that they would have to make maximum efforts to ensure victory and that the war would continue for a long time. The stage has been set for war, a war that would change the course of history and leave two great allies tearing themselves apart as a result of the war.
…So Alaska had gone to Canada!
According to the report, it was written in the Red War Plan that America’s victory would mean Britain handing over its overseas territories to Washington, but if Britain had won, the opposite would also have happened, which also included handing over Alaska to Canada. If this war had occurred, the map of the world would have been redrawn at the expense of huge amounts of war materials, millions of lives would have been lost, and in the meantime great evil would have emerged in the form of Hitler’s dream of his new empire. The “Third Reich” would have been given.
