Often, junior military officers were given the task of updating each plan to keep them trained and busy (especially in the case of War Plan Crimson, the invasion of Canada). Many of the war plans were extremely unlikely given the state of international relations in the 1920s, and were entirely in keeping with the military planning of other nation-states. The best-known version of Black was conceived as a contingency plan during World War I in case France fell and the Germans attempted to seize French possessions in the Caribbean or launch an attack on the eastern seaboard. War Plan Black was a plan for war with Germany.
#RED COLOR WAR FREE#
Ireland, at the time a free state within the British Empire, was named "Emerald". British territories had war plans of different shades of red-the UK was "Red", Canada "Crimson", India "Ruby", Australia "Scarlet" and New Zealand "Garnet". War Plan Red was a plan for war against the British Empire. Orange formed some of the basis for the actual campaign against Japan in World War II and included the huge economic blockade from mainland China and the plans for interning the Japanese-American population.
#RED COLOR WAR SERIES#
The plan that received the most consideration was War Plan Orange, a series of contingency plans for fighting a war with Japan alone, outlined unofficially in 1919 and officially in 1924. As the convention of using colors took root, some were eventually reused, such as Grey, which originally referred to Italy but eventually became a plan for the capture and occupation of Portugal’s Azores. Many war plans became known by the color of the country to which they were related, a convention that lasted through World War II. At the end of 1904, the Joint Board adopted a system of colors, symbols, and abbreviated names to represent countries. war planning originated from the desire for the Army and Navy to use the same symbols for their plans.
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