Why The Canal could be a Risk!

[David Jones]

US nuclear submarine USS Dallas (SSN-700), early Monday morning, April 17, was transit through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean, to the Korean peninsula.

[Glen Fraser]

History clearly shows that the Panama Canal was considered a vital strategic target against North America. Those motivations for an attack have long since dissipated but the Canal remains and could still be looked upon as a legitimate target for future attacks by those who consider America (and her interests) as an evil empire that needs to be dismantled. So just who could these adversaries of the future be and is the Panama Canal still on the wish list for attack?

http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Operation_Pelikan

http://twovoyagers.com/blinkynet.net/wwii/bombcanal1.html

[Steve Gibson]

Or maybe they just realized that win or lose, it was in no ones best interest to damage the link between the Atlantic and Pacific.Still not, but not quite as important now with the melting of the Arctic ice cap and the opening of the northern shipping routes.

[Alan Bollinger]

Very interesting! Was not aware of either one of those plans.........But Caribbean west side?? That kinda threw me..........Did he just mean the western part of the Caribbean?

[Alan Bollinger]

I doubt it....China needs that canal too and largely controls the loading/off loading facilities on both sides last time I looked.....Plus they only need to wait until it exits the canal to target it..........but of course it would be a sure thing exposed in the canal.........point taken.........in any case doesnt need to be a nuke.......

[Walter Steiner]

Good point. What about the Russians if things continue to go downhill with them?

[Walter Steiner]

I doubt it.

The canal is probably one of the most surveyed and protected structures outside the U.S., due to its strategic importance to the U.S., both for trade and military...