American invasion of Canada would spark decades-long insurgency, expert predicts

'People fight back': Military expert warns Trump vow could trigger decades-long insurgency

President Donald Trump has repeatedly mused about making Canada into America's "51st state," which has prompted one expert to conduct a war game mapping how a U.S. invasion of Canada would play out.The Montreal Gazette reported that Aisha Ahmad, a political scientist at the University of Toronto, sa...

U.S. could easily invade Canada, experts agree, but would face decades of resistance

While an American military victory in a hypothetical of Canada is assured, the aggressors would face decades of resistance, an expert says.

American invasion of Canada would spark decades-long insurgency, expert predicts

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This article was published by Policy Options on March 26, 2025. By Gib van Ert, Robert J. Currie, Allan Rock Late in 2024, the incoming president of the United States, Donald Trump, began calling for the annexation of Canada.  What was first taken as a tasteless joke quickly emerged as a chief plank of the new administration’s foreign policy. On Jan. 7, a reporter asked Trump whether he intended to use military force against Canada – something h…

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HALIFAX — Most experts do not believe in a possible invasion of Canada by the United States. But Aisha Ahmad, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, does not think like them. "Because of the imbalance of forces between the United States and Canada, an invasion would mean an immediate defeat of the Canadian army," said the one who published an essay on the subject last month on The Conversation. "A conventional military vi…