QUOTE (Byron @ Dec 30 2004, 10:40 AM)
QUOTE (UrbanPoet @ Dec 30 2004, 10:21 AM)
i bet vietnam can pwn CAnada in a war.
No doubt since Vietnam's military was the 4th largest in the mid 1980s but the trouble with invading Canada is getting the troops there as well as Canada as the U.S to protect them as well. After the cold war Vietnam scaled down it's military and concentrated on defensive purposes instead of power projection before the end of the cold war.

vietnam doesn't have a blue water navy; so protecting nearby islands would still be the best that it could do. while canadian ships and troops have been deployed far away from home, in different climates, since ww1.
lol...let just say canadian troops are of similar quality to us troops, and we know us troops did not do jungle very well against the vietcong. but on the other hand, viet troops will probably drop their guns and freeze themselves to death in canada; not to mention the combination of us/canadian navies and air forces will eat not only viet ships but also everyone else's for lunch before they can even dream of reaching this coast of the atlantic. but then, things will work differently on vietnamese soil as proven in the past.