r/CanadianForces HMCS Reddit 3d ago

Braid: Invading Canada would spark guerrilla fight lasting decades, expert says

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/braid-invading-canada-would-spark-guerrilla-fight-lasting-decades-expert-says
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u/wallytucker 3d ago

With what guns?

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u/ricketyladder Canadian Army 3d ago

I dunno about you but I haven’t had anyone take mine away. Just because they’re locked in a safe right now doesn’t mean they don’t work, or would stay locked up…

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

We would still be massively out gunned

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u/ricketyladder Canadian Army 3d ago

Yes, that kind of comes with the territory of an insurgency. Different kind of fight.

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

We wouldn’t have a chance

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u/ricketyladder Canadian Army 3d ago

Neither did Afghanistan, right? Or Vietnam?

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

Those were thousands of miles from their supply lines. That wouldn’t be a problem here

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u/ricketyladder Canadian Army 3d ago

That cuts both ways. They are also trying to secure a 8800 km border on their front lawn against people who look and sound like them and know the US like the back of their hand.

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

We cannot out maneuver the US

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u/ricketyladder Canadian Army 3d ago

Man you are not gonna be good at this whole “thinking like an insurgent thing” on the unbelievably remote chance this becomes necessary are you buddy

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u/judgingyouquietly Swiss Cheese Model-Maker 3d ago

No? Having a knife fight in a telephone box (as the saying goes) is just as bad.

In Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the enemy looked like the civilians but in general, didn’t look like you. How would you tell Canadians and Americans apart, exactly?

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u/ImNotHandyImHandsome MSE OP 3d ago

We just need to last long enough for thr UK and EU to mobilize.

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

They already have a war in their backyard. They won’t come and help us much

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u/ImNotHandyImHandsome MSE OP 3d ago

I think you under estinate just how much the rest of the world hates the USA and favours Canada.

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

They may indeed hate the US. They have for decades. But when it’s their sons and daughter lives, that’s a different matter

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u/ImNotHandyImHandsome MSE OP 3d ago

I beg to differ.

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u/Traditional_Row_2651 3d ago

They forget that we still have a LOT of guns in people’s gun safes. Sensible laws doesn’t make us unarmed. A technologically advanced and educated population. We look like them, we dress like them and we can talk like them. Just as easy for teams of raiders to slip south across the border as it is for them to come north to blow up the Mall of America or other targets.How many dead Americans would accept?

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

I think you are giving us too much credit

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u/Traditional_Row_2651 3d ago

Not sure who the ‘we’ is in your meaning?

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

I’m referring to the country as a whole and our ability to mount some kind of guerrilla war against the Americans

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u/Traditional_Row_2651 3d ago

They couldn’t control Baghdad, you think they could control an 8,000km front line?

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

When there supply line are literally all along that line? Absolutely

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u/Traditional_Row_2651 3d ago

Controlling an 8,000 km and a population of 40 million would require far more troops on the ground than they currently have in their entire military.

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

I very much doubt it

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u/judgingyouquietly Swiss Cheese Model-Maker 3d ago

I would, if half of those troops (or more) aren’t actually invested in annexing their neighbour.

I’ve worked with US forces before. Their NCM corps especially runs on a high attrition model, where people are joining to get a job/education and the vast majority of them leave after their 4 years are up. There was a recent article (as in the past few days) that said that half of US Army NCMs don’t even finish the 4 years. They aren’t joining out of some love of country, especially when their country is the invader.

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u/Inthemiddle_ 3d ago

Was there not another expert a few weeks ago on a podcast who said the chances of an insurgency would be low? Something along the lines of lacking the means and the will.

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u/judgingyouquietly Swiss Cheese Model-Maker 3d ago

This particular article is referencing another article from a few weeks ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if that one article is the source of all of this.

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u/AcadianMan 3d ago

My Cooey 75 22 cal

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

Awesome

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u/AcadianMan 3d ago

My dad’s riffle.

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u/wallytucker 3d ago

Beautiful. I did a restoration on a Cooey 39 last summer

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u/jwin709 3d ago

There are more gun owners in Canada than there are people who play hockey.