Depends what you want from invasion. Hearts and minds invasions dont work. Invade and kill them so they will love you and emulate your system of goverment doesnt seem to work.
The truth is that Trade is much more powerful as an influence then war. The greatest trading nation the world has ever known has decided that War should achieve the same aims. War is good for destroying and bad for building. The end of WW2 was not the end of a noble endevor to change the course of events and society in Germany and Japan..it was the end of a noble endevor to kick thier tulips into the stone age and then alot of..what do we do know?
I dont think that Iraq gives you a great standard to judge invasion as a policy.
The Iraqis are increadably heavily armed. Their clan based society is very very resiliant and resistant. Even Sadam worked within it really. If you didnt opose him he didnt really bother you. Cause he knew if he did he would face well armed ferocios resistance.
its very inhospitable and culturally foriegn to the invading troops. And the habitat is very hostile to thier equipment.
Canada asside from the fact that we have no substitute for the clan system, and only 9 battalions of infantry has people that are fat and happy, by the time it occured to us to do differently it would be far far to late.
Canadians rely tottally on electronic comunications. Such means would be under US control the second the invasion started.
Large pieces of Canada could be starved into submission in days. Literally days. Block the highways, block the rail ways and canadians can freeze, starve or play along. Period.
With starvation you can have the obediant canadains ferociosly hunting the disobediant canadians in less then a week. Hungry canadians would kick patriotic canadians tulips every time.
Here the only means of insurgency would have to develop long long after the invasion when the invaders got complacent. Years after. As long as they wanted to they could ensure the obediance of the canadian people with food and fuel alone.
Funked is incorrect though. Utter brutality doesnt do it. Utter brutality only invites the same. If the US has a chance in Iraq its with the path they are appearing to folllow. Half occupation half sales job.
It will fail though. If they had been willing to get the bathists brutally and then pull out. They could have at least claimed a victory. But they will be a signifigant Iraqi insurgency against them as long as they stay or until they put Sadam II in power.
