为什么加拿大不是一个军事强国？

Madi Connors
Two reasons:
They don't need to be. They're pretty tight with us down here in the US.
Even if they weren't, Canada is a world leader in nuclear technology. They're one of a handful of countries like Germany and Japan that could have nuclear weapons in a matter of a year or two, but choose not to.
Don't give the Canadians a reason not to be polite. You wouldn't like them when they're angry.


两个原因：
加拿大不需要成为一个军事强国。他们和我们美国人得关系非常密切
即便加拿大不是一个军事强国，但它在核技术领域依然处于世界领先地位。加拿大是少数几个像德国和日本那样可以在一两年内拥有核武器但选择不这样做得国家之一。
不要给加拿大人失礼得机会，你不会想看到加拿大人生气得样子
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Brett Pokorny
Also, don’t forget how fearsome the canadian troops were during both world wars. They may not be “militarily powerful,” but when military might is needed, they’re more than capable of mustering it.


不要忘了加拿大军队在二次世界大战中有多么恐怖。他们或许现在不是什么军事强国，但当他们需要军事力量得时候，他们更有能力集结军力

Ronald Fisch
Nuclear weapons without a delivery system are not very useful.


没有投射能力得核武器一点用都没有。

Jordan Hachey
I think geography is the reason. There’s only one country on earth with the ability to project enough force to overcome Canada’s military. Given the power disparity between us I don’t think it’s worth attempting to develop defences against them.


我认为原因在于地理。地球上只有一个国家有能力投射足够得军力去打败加拿大军队。考虑到我们之间得力量不对称性，我认为不值得发展防御力量去对抗他们

Réya Jamila
Brian, thank you. Canada is a Peace Keeping Nation and takes that responsibility seriously. Canadians love their peace and use the military power to help keep the peace wherever the need arises. Canadians lost their stomach for war. Doesn't have a chip on it's shoulder to be a bully to feel better about itself. :) C


加拿大是一个维护和平得国家，并认真承担这一责任。加拿大人热爱和平，只要有需要，他们就会动用军事力量帮助维护和平。加拿大人对战争不感兴趣，不会为了让自己感觉更好而去欺负别人。

Frank Curwood
We have never had the political will.Plus we have enough natural resorces that we dont have to invade anyone,the only resorce that we do not have is latex.Last our armed forces is volantary so finding the man power in peace time would be hard.


我们没有成为军事强国得政治意愿。再加上我们有足够得自然资源，所以不需要去侵略别人，唯一没有得自然资源就是乳胶。最后，我们军队募兵是自愿性质得，在和平时期要想找到足够得人当兵是很困难的事情

Michael Vartain
Canada is also the #2 country in the world right now which makes it high for places to visit on peoples to go list.


加拿大是领土第二大国，这使得很多人都想要到加拿大旅游

Zachary Thompson
I like to think of our army as comparable to what the British had in the interwar period. Quite small, but very professional.


我觉得我们的军队就像是两次世界大战期间的英国军队一样，规模小，但很专业

Viktor T. Toth, IT pro, part-time physicist
First of all, Canada is a small country by population. Its population is less than half that of Germany; just over half that of France or the UK; less than Poland's, even.
Second, Canada enjoys the benefits of existence under the US defensive umbrella. The military doctrine of the United States is such that they would respond decisively to any aggression on North American soil. Arguably, Canada could get away with having no military at all without compromising its security or territorial integrity.


首先，加拿大是一个人口小国。加拿大人口连德国的一半都没有，只比法国或英国人口的一半略多一些，人口甚至还没有波兰多。4
其次，加拿大享受着在美国的防御伞下生存的好处。美国的军事原则是任何对北美大陆的侵略都会迎来美国的坚决回应。可以说，加拿大就算没有军队一样可以保证自己的安全和领土完整。

Now of course it means that Canada is defenseless against any US aggression. Thankfully, Canadians don't have to worry about that prospect too much. While it's true that the US military has plans on its shelves for the very unlikely scenario of invading Canada, the reality is that these two countries have a very close military alliance; just look at NORAD, for instance.
So this puts Canada in a very convenient (and arguably, somewhat hypocritical) position where it can portray itself as a peaceful country, yet rely on the most powerful military power on the planet for its defense.
And more recently, look at Canada's contributions during WW2. There is some debate whether Canada was the 3rd, 4th or 5th largest naval power at the end of the war, but whichever way you look at it, for a country of 12 million (in 1945), even being number five is quite an achievement.
And lest we forget, Canada was a contributor to the Manhattan project. There have been nuclear weapons in the Canadian military up until the 1980s (though these weapons were, at least partially, under US control). Though Canada never developed an indigenous nuclear weapon, it certainly has the capability to do so, and in short order, in probably less than a year.


当然，这也意味着如果美国选择入侵加拿大，那么它将毫无还手之力。值得庆幸的是，加拿大人不必对这种情况太过担心。虽然美国军方确实有入侵加拿大的计划，但现实是加拿大和美国是关系紧密的军事盟友，看一下北美防空司令部就知道了
因此加拿大处于一个非常有利的位置，他可以把自己描绘成一个和平的国家，但同时有依赖世界上最强大的国家来保护自己
看看加拿大在二战中的贡献。战争快要结束的时候，有些人就加拿大是世界第三，还是第四或第五海军强国地位发生争论。但无论你怎么看，对于一个拥有1200万人口(1945年)的国家来说，即使是排名第五都是相当了不起的成就。
别忘了，加拿大还是曼哈顿计划的贡献者之一。直到上世纪80年代，加拿大军队中还是有核武器的，虽然这些武器当时，至少部分，是在美国的控制之下。虽然加拿大从未自行开发过核武器，但它确实有能力这样做，但加拿大确实有这样的能力，在短期内就拥有核武器，可能一年之内就可以了

Brian Sibbald, Canadian Forces
First of all, Canada is a very small nation - both in population and economy. Second, Canada has a very "on the fence" political attitude. We're neutral as long as a grey zone exists. And perhaps most importantly, we have a big brother - the USA. As you can imagine, this results in next to no need for a powerful military.
I would say that Canada is not a militarily powerful country in comparison to Russia or the USA; but in comparison to nations of similar size, Canada is incredibly militarily powerful.


首先是因为加拿大不管是人口上还是经济上都是一个小国。其次，只要存在灰色地带，加拿大就会在政治上保持中立态度。可能最重要的原因在于，我们有一个大哥——美国。正如你可以想象的那样，这样的结果就是我们不需要拥有一支强大的军队。
与美国和俄罗斯相比，虽然加拿大不是一个军事强国，但与类似规模的国家相比，加拿大的军事力量强的惊人。

Alan Dillman
Our economy isnt that small, #11 out of 188:


我们的经济并不弱，188个国家中排名第11

Andrew Baker
While that is true, that economy spends about %1.15 of its GDP (C$20 billion) on the Canadian Forces.


虽然说的没有错，但加拿大在国防预算上的支出只占GDP的1.15%

Mel Stephenson
Canada freeloads on USA protection…they use their money to pay for socialized health care.


加拿大免费享受美国的保护，然后把钱投入到社会医疗保健的建设中

Gene McCluskey, B.S. History, Kent State University
I would not underestimate the military prowess of the Canucks, our friends to the North.
They fought well and bravely in Europe in WWI and II and the Canadian Navy in WWII was the unsung hero of the Battle of the Atlantic against the German U-Boat menace.
The Canadian Army is quite small but its a dedicated, professional, all volunteer and well equipped military.
Size-wise, of course, they don’t field an army the size of the US but they have no need to as the US is largely responsible for Canada’s security.


我不会低估加拿大人的军事实力，他们是我们在北方的朋友。
在第一次和第二次世界大战中，他们在欧洲英勇作战，在二战期间，加拿大海军是对抗德国潜艇威胁的无名英雄
加拿大军队规模很小，但确却是一只非常有敬业精神的专业军队，全部都是由志愿者组成，装备精良。
当然就规模来说，他们比不上美国，但他们也没有这样做的必要，因为美国会负责加拿大的大部分安全。

Richard Becker, Really likes mermaid myths and movies
They don’t have to be… Any foreign power attacking Canada would have to face the U.S. military.


加拿大不需要拥有一支强大的军队，任何试图攻击加拿大的国家都要先面对美军

Adam Wu, lives in Saskatoon, SK
Because Canadians do not want their country to be militarily powerful. Politically, we do not want to spend the resources it would take to become militarily powerful, and would rather spend that money on other things, like national health care.
When it comes to national security, our cultural and political inclination has always been to do this through diplomacy, ie by alliances.


因为加拿大人不希望自己的国家变成一个军事强国。政治上，我们不希望把资源都花在军事力量的建设上，我们宁愿把资源花在其他事务上，例如，全民医保。
当涉及国家安全问题时，按照我们的文化和政治倾向来看，我们一直以来就是通过外交和盟国来解决这些问题的。

Part of this has to do with our historical legacy, wherein we came to nationhood viewing ourselves as a part of the British Empire, and under the protective umbrella of Great Britain, rather than as a nation with any imperial ambitions of our own, which transitioned relatively smoothly to the modern situation where we view ourselves as a member of the Western Alliance, under the defensive umbrella of the United States, where again we see our international role as being peacekeepers and diplomats.


这部分与我们的历史遗产有关，我们在建国时将自己视为大英帝国的一部分，而不是一个有着帝国野心的国家，享受着大英帝国的保护。然后顺利过渡到了现代社会后，我们将自己视为西方联盟的一部分，我们将自己在国际舞台上的角色定位为维和人员和外交官，享受美国人提供的保护。

Canadian troops performed very well in both the First and Second World Wars. In WWII in particular, Canada's contribution to the allies was behind only Great Britain, the US, and the USSR, and an order of magnitude greater than most other nations on the Allied side. We shared the North Altantic Theater (ie the battle against the U-boats) essentially as equals with Great Britain. We were an equal partner with Great Britain and the US in the Manhattan Project. By the end of the war, Canada's navy ranked 4th or 5th in total tonnage in the world.
That giant navy was scrapped back to minimal pre-war levels with a few years after 1945.


加拿大军队在第一次和第二次世界大战中都表现出色。特别是在第二次世界大战中，加拿大对同盟国的贡献仅次于英国、美国和苏联，比同盟国中其他大多数国家的贡献都高一个数量级。我们在北大西洋战区(即与德国潜艇作战)的表现基本可以和英国平分秋色。在曼哈顿计划中，我们是和英国美国平等的伙伴。到二战结束时，加拿大海军的总吨位在世界上排名第四或第五。加拿大庞大的海军在1945年后的几年内就被削减到战前的最低水平。

In peacetime we maintain a small, but well equipped and very well trained military, capable of participating in joint operations with our allies, which will include one of the world's great powers. If we feel there is an urgent enough reason to, we can rapidly militarized, and when the need passes, we demilitarize just as rapidly.


在和平时期，我们保持着一支规模虽小但装备精良、训练有素的军队，能够和包括世界大国在内的盟国一起展开行动。如果我们觉得情况紧急的话，那么我们可以快速的进行军事化，当紧急情况过去以后，我们会快速的去军事化。

Mikhael Belanger, lives in Montréal, QC, Canada
Who needs a powerful military to defend yourself when you got a crazy cold Winter for half the year?


加拿大一年中有半年时间处于严寒状态，这样的国家还需要什么强大的军队

Jeff Pellarin
I much prefer our tax dollars be spent in silly things like education and health care.


我更希望能把纳税人的钱花在教育和医保这样的事情上

David Johnston
Canada is not a populous country and geographically it has only one neighbour who possesses the most powerful military in the world. To try to be militarily powerful would be expensive while not contributi.ng materially to Canada’s security.


加拿大人口不多，地理上只有一个邻国，而这个邻国又拥有世界上最强大的军队。试图获得强大的军事力量会付出很高的代价，而且对加拿大的安全不会有任何实质性的帮助
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