Muttley
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United States Colour Coded War PlansThey may well have been planning exercises- but they were plans to invade their friends, neighbours and allies.
There were literally dozens of them including War Plan White for another civil war and War Plan Black for war with Germany. They planned these scenarios but that is a long way from putting plans in motion to carry them out. A few years ago the press became aware of them, and we got headlines like yours "USA planned to destroy British Empire" etc. In this country we have always "wargamed" various wars and conflict scenarios, the Germans invented a system called Kriegspiel in which plans were tested/sandboxed.
Of course the USA did actually invade Canada a couple of times most recently in 1812. Amusingly the US decided to build a fort to deter the Royal Navy from approaching the New York shore of Lake Champlain, unfortunately due to a surveying error the fort was built inside Canada. This was not discovered until the US had spent $275,000 on it. Oops.