Overview
- The Globe and Mail, citing two senior officials, reports a model centered on insurgency-style resistance using ambushes, sabotage, drones and hit-and-run tactics.
- Planners assessed that U.S. forces could overrun key Canadian positions in as little as two days and likely within a week.
- Warning indicators include a U.S. move to end NORAD cooperation, flagged as a likely precursor to any assault.
- Officials emphasize the exercise is conceptual and say an invasion is considered unlikely.
- Canada would seek help from Britain and France, and conscription is not planned as a 400,000-plus volunteer reserve is proposed.