“Plan Crimson: War on Canada: Secret War Plans and the Malady of American Militarism” How History Allows Insight into the Malady of American Militarism

By Floyd Rudmin
Psychology Dept.
University of Tromsø
Norway
Email: frudmin @vpsyk.uit.no

Abridged version published by CounterPunch, vol.13. no.1, January 1-15, pp.1, 4-6.
Posted Feb. 17, 2006 at http://www.counterpunch.org/rudmin02172006.html as

Between WWI and WWII, the United States developed and approved as official national policy three major war plans: a) War Plan ORANGE against Japan, b) War Plan GREEN against Mexico, and c) War Plan RED against the UK.1 But there were other war plans as well. Special Plan VIOLET was approved by the Joint Board of the Army and Navy in 1925 for interventions in Latin America and the Carribean "to forestall action by other countries including the League of Nations."2 There was a War Plan WHITE initiated in 1920 for suppressing internal insurrection by US citizens, but it was not developed or approved.3 These war plans were all declassified in 1974 and can be purchased from the US National Archives. Germany was color coded black, but there never was a War Plan BLACK.4

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