First, we get trained, then we try to get lucky.
Being prepared for emergencies isn't just about having skills, training, knowledge and experience; sometimes it's about timing, circumstances and yes, perhaps a bit of luck.
Think of that when you unpack your BOB bag and can't find the lucky rabbit foot that your favourite Uncle Buck gave you for your 10th birthday. LOL.
Just 48 Canadian Resistance Fighters
If the US attacked Canada, just 48 Canadian resistance fighters striking 37 electrical transmission hubs and 11 cross-border pipelines could sever the energy arteries feeding the American military-industrial complex. Within hours, the flow of 6 million barrels of oil and 8.8 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily would halt.
The consequences would be swift and catastrophic:
· Production collapse: Without power and gas, assembly lines for jets, missiles, and munitions stop within days. Just-in-time supply chains shatter, freezing advanced R&D for years.
· Fuel-starved forces: The US military—the world’s largest oil consumer—would exhaust stockpiles. Global power projection crumbles as the aerial refueling fleet is grounded and carrier groups run short.
· Nuclear strain: The triad receives priority, but supporting infrastructure deteriorates, leaving personnel and supply lines stressed.
· Strategic paralysis: The Pentagon pivots from global dominance to a defensive, homeland-security crouch. Adversaries seize openings; alliances crumble as US security guarantees lose credibility.
· Long-term atrophy: A brain drain and bankrupt supplier base would erode America’s technological edge for decades.
Defending thousands of miles of pipelines and grids scattered across Canada’s vast forests and mountains against a local, highly motivated insurgency is a losing battle—a lesson etched in Vietnam and Afghanistan. The world’s mightiest military wouldn’t be defeated by enemy weapons, but by the collapse of the civilian energy network that sustains it. The paradox: 48 determined people could reduce a superpower to a besieged fortress.